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Economic Policy Institute

Epi uses the tools of economics to bring the interests of low- and middle-income workers into economic policy discussions.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$7.1MCommunity Improvement$1.6MEmployment$1.5MPublic Benefit$851kSocial Science$425kHuman Services$420kCrime & Legal$409kCivil Rights$388kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k25 grants · $656k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $506k
$50,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT$253,750
COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE$252,500
MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS$202,500
RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT$200,000
MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE$153,750
KIDS FORWARD$150,000
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$150,000
DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC$150,000
OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$150,000
THINK TENNESSEE$134,167
THE COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL ANALYSIS$125,000
COMMON GOOD IOWA$102,500
FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE$100,000
MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY$100,000
CHILDREN'S ACTION ALLIANCE$100,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $144k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $144k → 10%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCIN Y DE F: $25k → 23%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $126k → 17%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 9%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $25k → 5%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 14%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $254k → 21%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $9k → 17%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $100k → 8%BARRED BUSINESS: $29k → 13%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $110k → 17%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 9%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $100k → 8%BARRED BUSINESS: $15k → 13%VA COALITION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $25k → 9%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $25k → 14%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $109k → 17%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $15k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $12k → 9%KIDS FORWARD: $163k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $151k → 10%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $29k → 17%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $95k → 21%KIDS FORWARD: $150k → 10%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $83k → 21%KIDS FORWARD: $13k → 10%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $22k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 48 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
32

Total granted

$11M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+7%

Still filing today

85%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalSocial ScienceOther

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

  • CF
    COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $710k · revenue +86%
  • MJ
    MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $556k · revenue +259%
  • FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $303k · revenue -3%
  • UR
    UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +257%
  • DC
    DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +12%

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
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
2
New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
4
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
5
Women Employed

To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

Employment
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
Polis Institute Inc

To champion human dignity by designing the solutions to the social problems that infringe upon it.

Religion
8
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty and the most unlike its peers is Baton Rouge Sponsoring Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacySchool Parent OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/104
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,461

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
49/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $525,000 · Public BenefitFLORIDA POLICY INSTITU…ALABAMA ARISE — $450,302 · Public BenefitALABAMA ARISEThe Commonwealth Institute for — $433,569 · Public BenefitThe Commonwealth Insti…Center for Public Policy Priorities — $320,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Public Poli…KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC — $247,709 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY CENTER FOR EC…THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON STATE B…NEO Philanthropy Inc — $150,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $116,826 · Public Benefit+4 more — $162,918 · Public Benefit+4 moreKIDS FORWARD INC — $476,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD INCMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT — $453,662 · Human ServicesMISSOURI BUDGET PRO…ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $373,037 · Human ServicesARKANSAS ADVOCATES …NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $300,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUST…TIDES CENTER — $288,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $87,158 · Human Services+9 more — $219,986 · Human Services+9 moreCOMMON GOOD IOWA — $384,658 · OtherCOMMON GOOD IOWACHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · OtherCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE IN…MASHWORKERS — $185,233 · OtherMASHWORKERSCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa — $182,158 · OtherCenter for Worker Justice of…BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM — $156,000 · OtherGreater Birmingham Ministries — $137,801 · OtherISAIAH — $201,300 · OtherISAIAHSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — $200,000 · OtherSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERSMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc — $202,500 · OtherMinnesota Council of Nonprof…LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $150,000 · OtherARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC — $117,177 · Other+34 more — $1,123,516 · Other+34 moreCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $710,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO FISCA…DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $450,000 · Community ImprovementDC FISCAL POLI…THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $302,989 · Community ImprovementTHE GREENLININ…Economic Opportunity Institute — $77,470 · Community Improvement+5 more — $115,569 · Community Improvement+5 morePOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $663,579 · Social SciencePOLICY MATT…MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY — $358,500 · Social ScienceMAINE CENTE…Keystone Research Center Inc — $215,000 · Social ScienceKeystone Re…+2 more — $31,250 · Social ScienceMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $555,654 · EmploymentMISSOURI …OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $450,000 · EmploymentOREGON CE…+3 more — $66,250 · Employment+3 moreTHINK TENNESSEE — $270,834 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $200,000 · Civil RightsCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc — $117,500 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $88,400 · Civil RightsNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER — $58,266 · Civil RightsMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC — $45,000 · Civil Rights+7 more — $128,553 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$2,606,324Human Services$2,198,343Other$3,240,343Community Improvement$1,656,028Social Science$1,268,329Employment$1,071,904Civil Rights$908,553

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE — $710,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO — $663,579 over 4y, 12% of budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE — $555,654 over 4y, 15% of budgetFLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $525,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetKIDS FORWARD INC — $476,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT — $453,662 over 4y, 19% of budgetALABAMA ARISE — $450,302 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $450,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $450,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetThe Commonwealth Institute for — $433,569 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMON GOOD IOWA — $384,658 over 4y, 13% of budgetARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $373,037 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY — $358,500 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $320,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE — $302,989 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $300,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $288,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHINK TENNESSEE — $270,834 over 2y, 15% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC — $247,709 over 4y, 11% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc — $215,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc — $202,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetISAIAH — $201,300 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS — $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa — $182,158 over 3y, 18% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries — $137,801 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc — $117,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC — $117,177 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $116,826 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPS 305 INC — $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $88,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $87,158 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY INC — $85,418 over 2y, 13% of budgetEconomic Opportunity Institute — $77,470 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCINCINNATI INTERFAITH WORKERS CENTE — $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetADVOCATES FOR WOMENS AND KIDS EQUALITY AWAKE INC — $63,333 over 1y, 23% of budgetNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER — $58,266 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $53,569 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC — $45,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBarred Business Foundation — $43,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $34,140 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED — $34,140 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $34,140 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Center on Budget and …Annie E Casey Foundat…New Venture FundHopewell FundCommunity Catalyst IncAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationMAZON A Jewish Respon…WK Kellogg FoundationMarguerite Casey Foun…NEO Philanthropy IncProteus Fund Inc
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

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 organization Economic Policy Institute 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.

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no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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