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Migration Policy Institute

The nonpartisan MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.

$214k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Migration Policy Institute 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
Human ServicesSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving1$100k100%
FY20234$41k0%
FY20221$75k100%
FY20216$83k17%
FY20206$286k50%
FY20194$140k25%
FY20183$75k0%
FY20177$335kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$884kEmployment$100kInternational$75kCivil Rights$35kHuman Services$30kPhilanthropy$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Migration Policy Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConexion Americas: $155,395 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $155,265 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCalifornians Together: $145,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIntercultural Development Research Association: $100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMinnesota Education Equity Partnership: $100,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCenter for Global Development: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMassachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetOneamerica: $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIllinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Public Human Services Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnidosus: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatino Policy Forum: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 13.

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.

Gates FoundationWA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Immigration Law Center · Center for Community Change · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Migration Policy Institute

How much does Migration Policy Institute give?
Migration Policy Institute reported 1 itemized grants totaling $100,000, out of $213,582 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Migration Policy Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Employment (9%), International (7%).
Who are Migration Policy Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Conexion Americas ($155k), New York Immigration Coalition Inc ($155k), Californians Together ($145k).
Does Migration Policy Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Migration Policy Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Migration Policy Institute based?
Migration Policy Institute 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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