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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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$700,000
MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE$368,750
1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY$187,500
KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER$187,500
CASA SAN JOSE$187,500
PITTSBURGH UNITED$187,500
COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE$150,000
DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC$150,000
KIDS FORWARD$150,000
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$150,000
OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$150,000
MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT$121,250
VA COALITION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$100,000
VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER$100,000
NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND$100,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $188k → 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: $75k → 5%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 14%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $9k → 17%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $100k → 8%BARRED BUSINESS: $29k → 13%BARRED BUSINESS: $19k → 14%VA COALITION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $100k → 9%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $110k → 17%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 9%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $25k → 5%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 14%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $254k → 21%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $100k → 8%BARRED BUSINESS: $15k → 13%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $109k → 17%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $15k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $10k → 8%VA COALITION ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $12k → 9%KIDS FORWARD: $163k → 10%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $25k → 14%KIDS FORWARD: $151k → 10%ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $29k → 17%KIDS FORWARD: $150k → 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%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $121k → 21%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

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IL
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OR
IA
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CT
CA
CO
MO
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WV
VA
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AZ
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TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
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AL
GA
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 57 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
45

Total granted

$14M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MJ
    MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $924k · revenue +259%
  • CF
    COLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $860k · revenue +86%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $725k · revenue +13% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $303k · revenue -3%
  • MC
    Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $203k · revenue +56%
  • RA
    RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
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.

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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
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
9
Fair Work Center

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…

Employment
10
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
11
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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12
Bold Impact

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty; 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.
04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 111 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
54/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $725,000 · Public BenefitNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADER…The Commonwealth Institute for: $533,569 · Public BenefitThe Commonwealth Instit…FLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $525,000 · Public BenefitFLORIDA POLICY INSTITUT…ALABAMA ARISE: $479,052 · Public BenefitALABAMA ARISECenter for Public Policy Priorities: $320,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Public Polic…KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $257,709 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECO…THE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE WASHINGTON STATE BU…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $150,000 · Public BenefitGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $145,576 · Public Benefit+4 more: $157,918 · Public BenefitKIDS FORWARD INC: $626,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD INCMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $574,912 · Human ServicesMISSOURI BUDGET PRO…ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $401,787 · Human ServicesARKANSAS ADVOCATES …NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $310,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUST…TIDES CENTER: $288,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCASA SAN JOSE: $187,500 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSEVirginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $125,000 · Human ServicesKIDS WIN MISSOURI: $100,000 · Human Services+8 more: $275,894 · Human Services+8 moreCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $860,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO FISCA…DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $600,000 · Community ImprovementDC FISCAL POLI…THE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $302,989 · Community ImprovementTHE GREENLININ…Pittsburgh United: $187,500 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh Uni…WEPOWER: $100,000 · Community ImprovementEconomic Opportunity Institute: $77,470 · Community Improvement+4 more: $90,569 · Community ImprovementCOMMON GOOD IOWA: $384,658 · OtherCOMMON GOOD IOWACHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 · OtherMASHWORKERS: $185,233 · OtherCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: $182,158 · OtherGreater Birmingham Ministries: $156,551 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $156,000 · OtherVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $153,569 · OtherISAIAH: $201,300 · OtherSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS: $200,000 · OtherMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc: $202,500 · Other1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $187,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $150,000 · OtherARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $135,927 · Other+33 more: $1,469,947 · Other+33 moreMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $924,404 · EmploymentMISSOURI JO…OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $600,000 · EmploymentOREGON CENT…Missouri Workers Center: $75,000 · Employment+3 more: $66,250 · EmploymentPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $813,579 · Social SciencePOLICY MAT…Keystone Research Center Inc: $402,500 · Social ScienceKeystone R…MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $358,500 · Social ScienceMAINE CENT…+2 more: $31,250 · Social ScienceTHINK TENNESSEE: $280,834 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $200,000 · Civil RightsVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $125,000 · Civil RightsCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc: $117,500 · Civil RightsMISSOURI ORGANIZING AND VOTER ENGAGEMENT COLLABORATIVE: $100,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $88,400 · Civil RightsNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER: $68,266 · Civil RightsMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $45,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $138,553 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$3,493,824Human Services$2,889,593Community Improvement$2,218,528Other$3,965,343Employment$1,665,654Social Science$1,605,829Civil Rights$1,163,553

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 budgetMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $924,404 over 5y, 15% of budgetCOLORADO FISCAL INSTITUTE: $860,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $813,579 over 5y, 12% of budgetNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $725,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetKIDS FORWARD INC: $626,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $600,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $600,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $574,912 over 5y, 19% of budgetThe Commonwealth Institute for: $533,569 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetFLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $525,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetALABAMA ARISE: $479,052 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $402,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $401,787 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetCOMMON GOOD IOWA: $384,658 over 4y, 13% 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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $310,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $302,989 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $288,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHINK TENNESSEE: $280,834 over 3y, 15% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $257,709 over 5y, 11% 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 budgetSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON STATE BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPittsburgh United: $187,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $187,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: $182,158 over 3y, 18% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries: $156,551 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $153,569 over 4y, 0.4% 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 budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $145,576 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $135,927 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVirginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $125,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN: $125,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VIRGINIA: $125,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCentral Ohio Workers Center Inc: $117,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetWEPOWER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPS 305 INC: $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetKIDS WIN MISSOURI: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY INC: $95,418 over 3y, 13% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $88,400 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

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

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 Economic Policy Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Economic Policy Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%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
    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
    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.

    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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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