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Dt Institute

The organization focuses on strengthening communities and leaders, working with local organizations, and developing new approaches through action oriented research in the areas of stabilization, transition, and peacebuilding, and media, rights and democracy.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$303k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$4.3MEducation$1.4MEmployment$330kYouth Development$255kPublic Benefit$235kHealth$188kScience & Tech$149kSocial Science$138kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,707,127, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,572,947 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,865,820 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $561k
$70,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES$303,333
NET FREEDOM PIONEERS$257,310
SA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC$237,556
INTERNET MASTERING AND COMPANY INC$104,903
THE CARTER SCHOOL$100,000
THE CARTER CENTER$100,000
HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEACE$100,000
THE TOR PROJECT INC$75,000
PROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE$71,061
BRAVE NEW SOFTWARE PROJECT INC$70,000
ACUTIS VENTURES LLC$55,000
FRACTUS LLC WEPN$52,000
LAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
OPERATOR FOUNDATION$37,500
INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND PEACE$32,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC: $238k → 11%FRACTUS LLC WEPN: $52k → 10%INTERNET MASTERING & COMPANY INC: $108k → 12%BRAVE NEW SOFTWARE PROJECT INC: $70k → 14%PROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE: $122k → 15%WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES: $385k → 14%RALPH BUNCHE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $106k → 17%OPERATOR FOUNDATION: $42k → 10%ATLANTIC COUNCIL: $339k → 14%ACUTIS VENTURES LLC: $55k → 11%THE CARTER CENTER: $100k → 14%SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%NPH USA: $125k → 14%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%THE CARTER SCHOOL: $100k → 7%SIAMAK POURZAND FOUNDATION: $183k → 8%THE TOR PROJECT INC: $75k → 9%S4 GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC: $136k → 11%INTERNET MASTERING AND COMPANY INC: $105k → 12%NET FREEDOM PIONEERS: $257k → 14%PROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE: $71k → 15%WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES: $303k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND PEACE: $33k → 17%OPERATOR FOUNDATION: $38k → 10%IREX: $255k → 14%NPH USA (NUESTROS PEQUENOS HERMANOS): $116k → 14%SPIRITS OF AMERICA WORLDWIDE: $43k → 7%SIAMAK POURZAND FOUNDATION: $54k → 8%INTERNET MASTERING & COMPANY: $83k → 12%LAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%ATLANTIC COUNCIL: $136k → 14%NPH USA: $94k → 14%IFES (INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRAL SYSTEMS): $79k → 7%INTERNET MASTERING & COMPANY: $34k → 12%ATLANTIC COUNCIL: $75k → 14%NPH USA: $28k → 14%IFES (INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRAL SYSTEMS): $70k → 7%ATLANTIC COUNCIL: $65k → 14%NPH USA: $25k → 14%GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $35k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $43k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $33k → 14%DT GLOBAL: $1.3M → 14%DT GLOBAL: $258k → 14%HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEACE: $100k → 14%DT GLOBAL: $87k → 14%THE SENTRY: $40k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $141k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.6M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $2.3M to organizations and $288k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$1.8M · 68% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$840k · 32% · 1 grant · 5 people

Stated purpose: GRANT ADMINISTRATION · SUBGRANT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$5.5M
$632k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+94%

Still filing today

67%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $811k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $703k · revenue +72%
  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +84%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $485k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $255k · revenue +87%
  • CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2020 · $141k · revenue +6%
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2021 · $106k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
4
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
5
Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture
6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
8
Global Network Initiative Inc

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technology (ict) sector.

International
9
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
10
Institute for Energy Research

The institute for energy research (ier) is a not-for-profit organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets. ier maintains that freely functioning…

Environment
11
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thesentryorg Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DT GLOBAL: $1,685,162 · OtherDT GLOBALSA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC: $382,615 · OtherSA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLCINTERNET MASTERING & COMPANY INC: $329,665 · OtherINTERNET MASTERING & COMPANY INCCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $105,955 · OtherHUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEACE: $100,000 · OtherTHE CARTER SCHOOL: $100,000 · Other+4 more: $197,925 · Other+4 moreATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $625,248 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES IN…FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $387,834 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USANETFREEDOM PIONEERS: $257,310 · InternationalNETFREEDOM PIONEERSINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $255,138 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD…SIAMAK POURZAND FOUNDATION: $244,024 · InternationalSIAMAK POURZAND FOUNDATIONPROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE: $193,376 · InternationalPROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICEINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: $149,663 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL S…CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $141,335 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL S…THE CARTER CENTER INC: $100,000 · International+3 more: $108,464 · InternationalASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $703,333 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION …THE TOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Public BenefitTHE TOR PROJ…+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $485,160 · EducationUNIVERSITY…University of Chicago: $76,667 · EducationUniversity…LAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationLAU HEALTH…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationOPERATOR FOUNDATION: $79,408 · Community ImprovementBrave New Software Project Inc: $70,000 · Civil RightsGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $35,000 · Environment
Other$2,901,322International$2,462,392Public Benefit$788,333Education$636,827Community Improvement$79,408Civil Rights$70,000Environment$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $703,333 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $625,248 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $485,160 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $387,834 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNETFREEDOM PIONEERS: $257,310 over 1y, 17% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $255,138 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIAMAK POURZAND FOUNDATION: $244,024 over 3y, 74% of budgetPROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE: $193,376 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: $149,663 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $141,335 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATOR FOUNDATION: $79,408 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $76,667 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOR PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBrave New Software Project Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLAU HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHESENTRYORG INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $42,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $35,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND PEACE: $32,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDAN TRANSPARENCY AND POLICY TRACKER CORPORATION: $15,964 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Endowment fo…The Ford FoundationInternews NetworkHumanity UnitedNew Venture FundNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Endowment for DemocracyDC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · The Ford Foundation · Internews Network · Humanity United · New Venture Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dt Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dt Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Dt Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Dt Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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