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International Citycounty Management Association
The international city/county management association (icma) is the world's premier local government leadership and management organization.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,616,659 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,238,541 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $621,882 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $841k
- $250k+1 grant · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CADMUS GROUP LLC | $301,716 |
| NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS | $225,247 |
| NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES | $187,268 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR TRIBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONA | $182,982 |
| URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK | $140,684 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $104,550 |
| INTERSTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY COUNCIL (IREC) | $32,827 |
| AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION | $27,052 |
| CITY OF LA MARQUE | $24,000 |
| CITY OF NEWTON | $24,000 |
| TOWN OF PRESCOTT VALLEY | $24,000 |
| CITY OF NEEDLES | $24,000 |
| CITY OF DANVILLE | $24,000 |
| CITY OF REDWOOD CITY | $24,000 |
| TUNICA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS | $24,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $509k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $463k to organizations and $46k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CITIES FOR ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE (CHANGE) PROGRAM · FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS
Stated purpose: CTA-CAPACITY BUILDING AND SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE (CTA-CBSI) PROGRAM
Stated purpose: ICMA EUROPE GRANT
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. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $796k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES3× · 2023–2025 · $443k · revenue +6%- FHFamily Health International Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $267k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- USUSCAC SALES & DEVELOPMENT LLCone grant, 2017 · $139k
- TJTHE JAKE GROUPone grant, 2020 · $48k
- NANEIGHBORHOODS AGAINST STRONG MAYORone grant, 2021 · $45k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES ↗
- Who funds American Planning Association ↗
- Who funds Family Health International Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE SOLAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE AND LOCAL LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds INTERSTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY COUNCIL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National League of Cities Institute Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Center for Technology and Civic Life · The Rockefeller Foundation · Gates Foundation · AARP · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 International Citycounty Management Association 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.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.