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EAST-WEST MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC
Working in partnership with grass roots groups, local governments, international organizations, ewmi combines legal, civic and economic initiatives to build just, prosperous and democratic societies.
$13M
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
5
Communities
$700k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
International$2.8MCrime & Legal$2.4MCommunity Improvement$492kEducation$404kCivil Rights$225kRecreation & Sports$183kOther$256k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
law civil
2019
goodrights
2020
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2021
socialrights
2022
rightsresearch
2023
civil rulerights
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $775k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$98,580
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION$700,090
- INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT FOR PROFIT LAW (ICNL)$389,720
- NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE (NDI)$333,678
- STREET LAW$185,243
- THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FOUNDATION (ILF)$182,808
- LUAT KHOA (LIV) LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR VIETNAM$98,580
- JUSTICE INNOVATION INC (JI)$88,853
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA$81,913
- ADAPT CONSULTING LLC$81,229
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$56,597
- RANA LABS LLC$18,020
- GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ELLIOTT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (GWU)$12,513
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 14 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
1
Total granted
$6.6M
$20k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+184%
Still filing today
86%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationInternationalCrime & LegalCivil RightsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ABAMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +37%
- ICINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT FOR PROFIT LAW6× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +27%
- NDNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- AFASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATIONSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +184%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
2
American Law Institute
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Crime & Legal
3
Georgetown University
Georgetown university is one of the world's leading academic and research institutions. established in 1789, georgetown is the nation's oldest catholic and jesuit university.
Education
4
American Society of International Law
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
International
5
International Assoc of Law
Training and education for intelligence analysts
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6
The University of Texas Law School
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Education
7
University of Virginia Law School
The primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds to benefit the uva law school.
Education
8
Washington Institute for Near East
To advance a balanced and realistic understanding of american interests in the middle east.
International
9
United States Naval Institute
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
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10
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
11
International Peace Institute Inc
The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…
International
12
The American College of Trust and
Association of trust and estate lawyers meeting the highest professional standards.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justice Innovation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The George Washington University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
International$2,790,871Crime & Legal$2,401,168Community Improvement$491,527Education$404,409Other$255,643Civil Rights$224,500Recreation & Sports$182,734
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT FOR PROFIT LAW (ICNL) ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE (NDI) ↗
- Who funds STREET LAW ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FOUNDATION (ILF) ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC (JI) ↗
- Who funds LUAT KHOA (LIV) LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH C ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ELLIOTT SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (GWU) ↗
- Who funds WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATIONS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation EAST-WEST MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LUAT KHOA (LIV) LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR VIETNAM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 815257301 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LUAT KHOA (LIV) LEGAL INITIATIVES FOR VIETNAM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to East-West Management Institute Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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