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National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

Ndi strives for a world where people have a say in how they're governed and where leaders are accountable totheir people - creating a more stable, peaceful and prosperous world for everyone.

$32M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192024.

International$7.2MArts & Culture$5.0MCrime & Legal$2.0MEducation$1.5MPublic Benefit$60kOther$862k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $8,087,904 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,931,155 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,843,251 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 · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
  • $250k+11 grants · $8.0M
$455,133
Median grant
4
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNEWS NETWORK$2,257,120
THE FREEDOM HOUSE INC$1,245,890
INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTRY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION$903,865
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION$871,154
MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA$608,013
AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY$455,133
INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE$412,471
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC$382,906
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC$322,043
NONVIOLENT INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRACY INC$264,794
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND$256,529
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION$107,986
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NONVIOLENT INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $265k → 7%INTERNEWS NETWORK: $2.3M → 18%PEN American Center Inc: $80k → 17%SWANITI INITIATIVE: $60k → 16%INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 14%MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA: $608k → 15%THE CARTER CENTER INC: $669k → 14%American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educ: $11k → 14%GLOBAL COMMUNITIES INC: $313k → 8%NONVIOLENT INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRACY INC: $171k → 7%INTERNEWS NETWORK: $2.3M → 18%INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE: $412k → 14%MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA: $216k → 15%International Republican Institute: $12k → 14%Mobility International USA: $29k → 15%THE FREEDOM HOUSE INC: $1.2M → 14%AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION: $871k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY: $455k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $383k → 14%SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $367k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $322k → 14%SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $257k → 14%THE FREEDOM HOUSE INC: $218k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $199k → 14%AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY: $197k → 14%CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC: $140k → 14%American Center for Intl Labor Solidarity: $14k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTRY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: $904k → 14%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $108k → 14%International Center for Not-For-Profit: $14k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTRY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: $855k → 14%INTERNATIONAL WOMENS MEDIA FOUNDATION: $92k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $24M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$5.7M · 24% · 176 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS · RIGHTS

Russia and Neighboring States$5.4M · 23% · 119 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS · RIGHTS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.2M · 14% · 77 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · RIGHTS

East Asia and the Pacific$2.9M · 12% · 75 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS · RIGHTS

Middle East and North Africa$2.4M · 10% · 51 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · RIGHTS · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

Central America and the Caribbean$1.8M · 7% · 48 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS · RIGHTS

South Asia$1.3M · 6% · 19 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · RIGHTS · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

South America$634k · 3% · 19 grants

Stated purpose: POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS · RIGHTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$294k · 1% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: RIGHTS · POLITICAL PROCESSES · POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$15M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • IN
    INTERNEWS NETWORK
    3× · 2019–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +67%
  • AB
    American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education
    3× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +54%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $669k · revenue +6%
  • GC
    GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $313k · revenue -5%
  • OI
    OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $195k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
2
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

7
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
8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
10
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
11
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
12
Global Investigative Journalism Network Inc

To support the training and sharing of information among journalists worldwide in investigative and computer-assisted reporting.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swaniti Initiative. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,758,511 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATIONFREEDOM HOUSE — $1,463,791 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSEMOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA — $852,888 · InternationalMOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USATHE CARTER CENTER INC — $668,883 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND — $623,810 · InternationalSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUNDINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC — $534,934 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INCCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC — $522,637 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INCNonviolent Initiative for Democracy — $435,961 · InternationalNonviolent Initiative for DemocracyGLOBAL COMMUNITIES — $312,658 · InternationalINTERNEWS NETWORK — $4,705,454 · Arts & CultureINTERNEWS NETWORKINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $79,938 · Arts & CultureAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $2,018,475 · Crime & LegalAmerican Bar …INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE — $1,512,113 · EducationINTERNATIO…AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY — $666,188 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $195,369 · OtherSWANITI INITIATIVE — $60,403 · Public Benefit
International$7,174,073Arts & Culture$4,985,392Crime & Legal$2,018,475Education$1,512,113Other$861,557Public Benefit$60,403

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK — $4,705,454 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $2,018,475 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION — $1,758,511 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE — $1,512,113 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE — $1,463,791 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA — $852,888 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $668,883 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY — $666,188 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND — $623,810 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC — $534,934 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC — $522,637 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNonviolent Initiative for Democracy — $435,961 over 2y, 39% of budgetGLOBAL COMMUNITIES — $312,658 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $195,369 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $79,938 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSWANITI INITIATIVE — $60,403 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

National Endowment for DemocracyDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Endowment for Democracy · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Family Health International Inc · Tides Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 National Democratic Institute for International Affairs 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 44%
  • Global Communities44% of income from government
  • Mobility International Usa33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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