How much does Economic Policy Institute give?

Economic Policy Institute reported 38 grants totaling $4,057,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Economic Policy Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Community Improvement (12%), Employment (11%).

Who are Economic Policy Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missouri Jobs With Justice ($924k), Colorado Fiscal Institute ($860k), Policy Matters Ohio ($814k).

Does Economic Policy Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Economic Policy Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.

Where is Economic Policy Institute based?

Economic Policy Institute is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Economic Policy Institute

Epi uses the tools of economics to bring the interests of low- and middle-income workers into economic policy discussions. Epi's rigorous research and transformative ideas fortify worker organizing, build a shared understanding of how power and policy shape economic outcomes, and help drive progressive policy change at every level of…

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2025: 50
Organizations funded FY2024: 44%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $700,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 51; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 19
Total assets, FY2025: $21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Economic Policy Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	38	$4.1M	18%
FY2024	50	$3.8M	44%
FY2023	37	$3.1M	27%
FY2022	51	$3.3M	47%
FY2021	37	$1.8M	70%
FY2020	8	$376k	100%
FY2019	12	$240k	92%
FY2017	1	$30k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.1MCommunity Improvement$1.6MEmployment$1.5MPublic Benefit$851kSocial Science$425kHuman Services$420kCrime & Legal$409kCivil Rights$388kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$924,404	5	15%
Colorado Fiscal Institute	$860,000	5	18%
Policy Matters Ohio	$813,579	5	12%
New Mexico Black Leadership Council	$725,000	2	67%
Kids Forward Inc	$626,000	5	12%
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc	$600,000	4	8%
Oregon Center for Public Policy	$600,000	4	19%
Missouri Budget Project	$574,912	5	19%
The Commonwealth Institute for	$533,569	6	5%
Florida Policy Institute Inc	$525,000	5	12%

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All grantees of Economic Policy Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Missouri Jobs With Justice	$924,404	5	15%
Colorado Fiscal Institute	$860,000	5	18%
Policy Matters Ohio	$813,579	5	12%
New Mexico Black Leadership Council	$725,000	2	67%
Kids Forward Inc	$626,000	5	12%
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc	$600,000	4	8%
Oregon Center for Public Policy	$600,000	4	19%
Missouri Budget Project	$574,912	5	19%
The Commonwealth Institute for	$533,569	6	5%
Florida Policy Institute Inc	$525,000	5	12%
Alabama Arise	$479,052	6	10%
Keystone Research Center Inc	$402,500	4	9%
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families	$401,787	5	6%
Common Good Iowa	$384,658	4	13%
Maine Center for Economic Policy	$358,500	5	8%
Center for Public Policy Priorities	$320,000	4	3%
North Carolina Justice Center	$310,000	4	2%
The Greenlining Institute	$302,989	1	2%
Think Tennessee	$280,834	3	15%
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc	$257,709	5	11%
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc	$202,500	1	5%
Isaiah	$201,300	2	1%
Rural Arizona Engagement	$200,000	1	4%
Soul 2 Soul Sisters	$200,000	2	13%
Childrens Action Alliance Inc	$200,000	2	4%
The Washington State Budget and Policy Center	$200,000	2	7%
Pittsburgh United	$187,500	1	4%
1hood Media Academy Inc	$187,500	1	n/a
Casa San Jose	$187,500	1	5%
Mashworkers	$185,233	3	n/a
Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa	$182,158	3	18%
Greater Birmingham Ministries	$156,551	4	7%
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	$156,000	3	n/a
Virginia New Majority Education Fund	$153,569	4	0%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$150,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$150,000	2	2%
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc	$145,576	4	2%
Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc	$135,927	5	6%
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc	$125,000	2	2%
Virginia Education Association	$125,000	2	0%
Virginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights	$125,000	2	5%
Voices for Virginia's Children	$125,000	2	7%
Prevent Child Abuse Virginia	$125,000	2	1%
Legal Aid Justice Center	$125,000	2	0%
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc	$117,500	2	33%
Wepower	$100,000	2	1%
Families for Strong Public Schools Inc	$100,000	2	n/a
Ps 305 Inc	$100,000	1	65%
Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative	$100,000	1	n/a
Kids Win Missouri	$100,000	2	1%
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Inc	$95,418	3	13%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$88,400	3	0%
Michigan League for Public Policy	$87,158	4	1%
Economic Opportunity Institute	$77,470	2	2%
Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Cente	$75,000	2	11%
Missouri Workers Center	$75,000	1	n/a
Nc Budget & Tax Center	$68,266	3	2%
Advocates for Womens and Kids Equality Awake Inc	$63,333	1	23%
Barred Business Foundation	$62,500	3	1%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$50,000	2	n/a
Metro Organization for Racial Economic Equity Inc	$45,000	3	3%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$42,709	2	n/a
Oklahoma Policy Inc	$38,569	3	1%
Kansas Action for Children Inc	$35,000	2	2%
Ue Research and Education Fund	$34,140	1	4%
Deep Center Incorporated	$34,140	1	2%
One Voice Inc	$34,140	1	18%
The Bail Project Inc	$34,140	1	0%
Kentucky Council of Churches Inc	$28,569	2	n/a
Adelante Alabama Worker Center	$28,569	2	13%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund	$28,569	2	0%
Invest in Louisiana	$27,500	1	1%
Maryland Center on Economic Policy Inc	$26,250	1	3%
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc	$26,250	1	1%
Jobs with Justice San Francisco	$26,250	1	3%
Working Partnerships USA	$26,250	1	0%
Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc	$26,250	1	4%
OUT For JUSTICE INC	$26,250	1	4%
Center for Civic Policy	$25,000	1	1%
The Ole Education Fund	$25,000	1	1%
New Mexico Voices for Children	$25,000	1	1%
Baton Rouge Sponsoring Committee	$25,000	1	9%
Connecticut Voices for Children Inc	$25,000	1	2%
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos	$25,000	1	2%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido	$25,000	1	1%
NM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe	$25,000	1	2%
Move Collaborative	$25,000	1	n/a
Missouri Workers Power	$25,000	1	11%
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty	$25,000	1	1%
W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
Missouri Rural Crisis Center	$25,000	1	1%
Colorado Center on Law and Policy	$22,500	1	1%
Block Builderz	$20,000	1	n/a
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Maine People's Resource Center	$17,000	1	1%
Maine Community Integration	$17,000	1	3%
Colorado Women's Employment & Education Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning	$15,000	1	1%
The Bell Policy Center	$10,000	1	1%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$10,000	1	n/a
Grassroots Collaborative	$10,000	1	2%
One Voice	$10,000	1	n/a
Action Institute Nc	$8,569	1	1%
Public Allies Inc	$8,569	1	0%
Ga Familias Unidas	$8,569	1	n/a
Democracy Matters Foundation	$7,826	1	1%
Operation Restoration	$7,667	1	0%
Detroit Action Commonwealth	$7,158	1	n/a
The Sadie Collective	$5,000	1	n/a

Economic Policy Institute supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 93.

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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.

Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesDC69.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Community Catalyst Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · WK Kellogg Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc

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.

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About Economic Policy Institute

How much does Economic Policy Institute give?: Economic Policy Institute reported 38 grants totaling $4,057,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Economic Policy Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Community Improvement (12%), Employment (11%).
Who are Economic Policy Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missouri Jobs With Justice ($924k), Colorado Fiscal Institute ($860k), Policy Matters Ohio ($814k).
Does Economic Policy Institute fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Economic Policy Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
Where is Economic Policy Institute based?: Economic Policy Institute is based in DC.