· Public charity
International Citycounty Management Association
The international city/county management association (icma) is the world's premier local government leadership and management organization.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -39% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES3× · 2023–2025 · $443k · revenue +9%- NCNATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE4× · 2019–2022 · $158k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- USUSCAC SALES & DEVELOPMENT LLCone grant, 2017 · $139k
- TJTHE JAKE GROUPone grant, 2020 · $48k
- NANEIGHBORHOODS AGAINST STRONG MAYORone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
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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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Citycounty Management Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Citycounty Management Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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