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Institute for Policy Studies

The INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (the institute) is a 60-year-old organization that is dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society.

$259k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$250k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Institute for Policy Studies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentReligionPublic BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$250k0%
FY20231$26k0%
FY20222$529k50%
FY20213$837k67%
FY20203$119k100%
FY20195$179k100%
FY20181$10k100%
FY20172$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.6MEnvironment$89kScience & Tech$84kReligion$84kPublic Benefit$70kEducation$63kCommunity Improvement$34kPhilanthropy$29k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
NM
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Economic Hardship Reporting Project$1,550,002383%
Repairers of the Breach$84,00012%
Center for Civic Policy$70,03421%
Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership Inc$56,3021n/a
New Mexico Environmental Law Center$54,60023%
Baltimore Brothers Inc$51,8001n/a
Movement Strategy Center$33,84810%
WK Kellogg Foundation$29,15910%
Sierra Club$24,22510%
Retro Report Inc$22,50010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Institute for Policy Studies by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Economic Hardship Reporting Project$1,550,002383%
Repairers of the Breach$84,00012%
Center for Civic Policy$70,03421%
Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership Inc$56,3021n/a
New Mexico Environmental Law Center$54,60023%
Baltimore Brothers Inc$51,8001n/a
Movement Strategy Center$33,84810%
WK Kellogg Foundation$29,15910%
Sierra Club$24,22510%
Retro Report Inc$22,50010%
Voices for a Sustainable Future$10,00011%
Trustees of Boston University$10,00010%
Magnum Cultural Foundation$8,64010%
Union Theological Seminary$7,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Institute for Policy Studies supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEconomic Hardship Reporting Project: $1,550,002 over 3y, 83% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $84,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCenter for Civic Policy: $70,034 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNew Mexico Environmental Law Center: $54,600 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMovement Strategy Center: $33,848 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWK Kellogg Foundation: $29,159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $24,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRetro Report Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVoices for a Sustainable Future: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagnum Cultural Foundation: $8,640 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnion Theological Seminary: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 12.

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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Institute for Policy Studies

How much does Institute for Policy Studies give?
Institute for Policy Studies reported 1 itemized grants totaling $250,000, out of $258,945 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Institute for Policy Studies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Environment (4%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Institute for Policy Studies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Economic Hardship Reporting Project ($1.6M), Repairers of the Breach ($84k), Center for Civic Policy ($70k).
Does Institute for Policy Studies fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Institute for Policy Studies?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation.
Where is Institute for Policy Studies based?
Institute for Policy Studies is based in DC.

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 14 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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