· Private foundation
Open Society Institute
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k261 grants · $384k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k127 grants · $12M
- $250k+60 grants · $132M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY | $38,025,318 |
| CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY | $31,983,066 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $12,500,000 |
| MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND | $5,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $5,000,000 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $2,825,471 |
| ASPIRATION | $2,000,000 |
| RESET TECH | $2,000,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $1,500,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC | $1,500,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $1,350,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ASSOCIATES | $1,250,000 |
| ACCESS NOW | $1,200,000 |
| TRANSPARENTEM | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($915M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($236M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $11.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those 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
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($236M)
113 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
1140 repeat relationships: 120 still active in FY2024, 1020 since wound down; 189 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $323M · revenue +158% · 84% of their budget
BARD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $211M · revenue +256%- MDMEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $19M · revenue +62% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15M · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
- SPSWISS PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- CFCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.1M · revenue +78%
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
412 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 412 of the 2,000 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BUDGET PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Aspiration Aspirationtechorg ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ACCESS NOW ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · National Endowment for Democracy · The Rockefeller Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Open Society Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Open Society Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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