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Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Us

The institute for war & peace reporting (iwpr) is an international non-profit organization that works with independent media and civil society to promote positive change in conflict zones, closed societies and countries in transition around the world.

$2.1M
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$224k
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, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$1.6MInternational$1.5MSocial Science$874kCivil Rights$422kHuman Services$309kScience & Tech$236kArts & Culture$225k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $808,011, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,100,851 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,292,840 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $752k
$129,411
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH$224,046
CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BET EAST AND WEST$164,739
POYNTER INSTITUTE$138,290
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$129,411
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$95,079
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$29,844
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE$19,456
CNA A NONPROFIT RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ORGANIZATION$7,146
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $185k → 8%EAST WEST CENTER: $223k → 9%GLOBAL AMERICANS: $318k → 20%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $324k → 14%POYNTER INSTITUTE: $668k → 12%CNA A NONPROFIT RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ORGANIZATION: $229k → 7%FORTIFY RIGHTS: $5k → 13%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BET EAST AND WEST: $165k → 9%GLOBAL AMERICANS: $99k → 20%CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES (C4ADS): $156k → 14%POYNTER INSTITUTE: $138k → 12%CNA A NONPROFIT RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ORGANIZATION: $7k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%EAST WEST CENTER: $86k → 9%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $129k → 14%POYNTER INSTITUTE: $124k → 12%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $370k → 14%BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $315k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $283k → 14%THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $224k → 14%THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $198k → 14%THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $161k → 14%CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $131k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: $118k → 14%BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $95k → 14%BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $79k → 14%THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $70k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: $19k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: $7k → 14%CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $6k → 14%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $2.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$790k · 40% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO FUND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

North America (Canada and Mexico)$639k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO FUND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

East Asia and the Pacific$342k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO FUND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$185k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO FUND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 12 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$4.6M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+37%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
InternationalEducationSocial ScienceCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TP
    THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $930k · revenue +19%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $501k · revenue +1%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $490k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $156k · revenue +37%
  • FI
    Fortify Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -35%
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.

1
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
Center for Strategic Research and Communication
—
4
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
5
Center for Advanced China Research
—
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
9
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
10
The Council On Strategic Risks

The organization is devoted to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century, with special examination of the ways in which these risks intersect and exacerbate one another. see schedule o for…

Public Benefit
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
Global Interdependence Center

Gic brings together a network of international experts in policymaking, central banking, industry, and academia to explore issues and policies concerning global interdependence that impacts world economies and quality of life. we provide a…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Strategic and International Studies; the most unlike its peers is Seenfire Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $930,131 · EducationTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STU…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $453,427 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $226,811 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $500,990 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIO…CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $288,660 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNAT…THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $267,573 · InternationalTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTERCENTER FOR CULTURAL & TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BTWN EAST & WEST INC: $164,739 · InternationalCENTER FOR CULTURAL & TECHNICAL I…THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES: $156,352 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE S…CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $144,542 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE …+1 more: $5,213 · InternationalTHE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $384,726 · OtherTHE NATIONAL BUREAU …EAST WEST CENTER: $309,448 · OtherEAST WEST CENTERCNA CORPORATION: $235,855 · OtherCNA CORPORATIONTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $489,711 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKI…GLOBAL AMERICANS INC: $417,037 · Civil RightsGLOBAL AM…SEENFIRE FOUNDATION: $224,933 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,610,369International$1,528,069Other$930,029Social Science$489,711Civil Rights$417,037Arts & Culture$224,933

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 budgetTHE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC: $930,131 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $500,990 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $489,711 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $453,427 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL AMERICANS INC: $417,037 over 2y, 60% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ASIAN RESEARCH: $384,726 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $288,660 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $267,573 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCNA CORPORATION: $235,855 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $226,811 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEENFIRE FOUNDATION: $224,933 over 2y, 59% of budgetCENTER FOR CULTURAL & TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BTWN EAST & WEST INC: $164,739 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DEFENSE STUDIES: $156,352 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $144,542 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFortify Inc: $5,213 over 1y, 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.

National Endowment fo…Foundation to Promote…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Endowment for DemocracyDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Us funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Us. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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 16 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.0M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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