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· Public charity

Ploughshares Fund Inc

Our mission is to reduce and eventually eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$7.8MPublic Benefit$3.4MEducation$1.7MCivil Rights$1.5MScience & Tech$1.4MHuman Services$540kHealth$395kArts & Culture$377kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $2,816,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,119,923 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $303,923 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.7M
$70,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$205,000
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK$190,000
ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION$178,000
INKSTICK MEDIA$125,000
RETHINK MEDIA$125,000
FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICA$125,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$120,000
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION$110,000
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$100,000
HORIZON 2045 FOUNDATION$100,000
WIN WITHOUT WAR EDUCATION FUND$100,000
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS$90,000
NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON NORTH KOREA$85,000
MARSHALLESE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE$80,000
RAND CORPORATION$80,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK: $190k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK: $150k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Ploughshares Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 10%.

Ploughshares Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 63 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
31

Total granted

$16M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPublic BenefitEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FP
    Foreign Policy For America
    5× · 2021–2025 · $840k · revenue +4%
  • IM
    Inkstick Media Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $560k · revenue +188%
  • NT
    NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $456k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • GZ
    GLOBAL ZERO
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • VF
    Veterans For Peace Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +31%
  • FA
    FULCRUM ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $86k · revenue +56%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Center for a New American Security Inc

The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…

International
2
Partnership for Global Security

The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…

International
3
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
4
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
5
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
6
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
8
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
9
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
10
Forum on the Arms Trade Inc

The Forum connects civil society experts to strengthen public efforts on arms transfers, security, and weapons issues, offering a hub for expertise, analysis, and resources.

International
11
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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12
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
24/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Foreign Policy For America: $840,000 · OtherForeign Policy For AmericaINTL CIVIL SOC ACTION NTWK: $430,000 · OtherINTL CIVIL SOC ACTION NTWKFRIENDS CMTE ON NATL LEGISLA: $370,000 · OtherNIAC Action: $360,000 · OtherPRES & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY: $340,000 · OtherFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENT: $270,000 · Other+48 more: $4,907,385 · Other+48 moreThe Arms Control Associations: $908,500 · InternationalThe Arms Control AssociationsTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $720,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCInkstick Media Inc: $560,000 · InternationalInkstick Media IncNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $455,950 · InternationalNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INCJ STREET: $390,000 · InternationalJ STREETINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $370,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUPTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $365,000 · InternationalTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTERWin Without War Education Fund: $257,500 · InternationalCOUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD: $255,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $230,000 · InternationalFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $225,000 · International+16 more: $1,989,500 · International+16 moreReThink Media: $482,500 · EducationReThink Me…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $455,000 · EducationPresident …MoveOnorg Civic Action: $380,000 · EducationMoveOnorg …Marshallese Educational Initiative: $175,000 · EducationMarshalles…BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $93,000 · EducationBOARD OF T…The Trustees of Princeton University: $80,000 · Education+1 more: $24,000 · EducationGLOBAL ZERO ACTION: $1,086,500 · Civil RightsGLOBAL ZE…VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $390,000 · Civil RightsVET VOICE…+3 more: $85,000 · Civil Rights+3 moreFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $125,000 · Public BenefitVeterans For Peace Inc: $100,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corporation: $80,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN OF COLOR ADVANCING PEACE AND SECURITY WCAPS: $55,000 · Public BenefitGAMES FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Public BenefitFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $25,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitINTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $145,000 · Community Improvement
Other$7,517,385International$6,726,450Education$1,689,500Civil Rights$1,561,500Public Benefit$495,000Human Services$340,000Community Improvement$145,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL ZERO ACTION: $1,086,500 over 3y, 91% of budgetThe Arms Control Associations: $908,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetForeign Policy For America: $840,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $720,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInkstick Media Inc: $560,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetReThink Media: $482,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $455,950 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $455,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $390,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetJ STREET: $390,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $380,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: $370,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $365,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNIAC Action: $360,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC: $340,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWin Without War Education Fund: $257,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD: $255,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $230,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNUCLEAR TRUTH PROJECT INC: $215,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSECURE FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetThe Foundation for a Civil Society LTD: $180,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMarshallese Educational Initiative: $175,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $165,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $164,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetWOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI: $150,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetWashington Physicians for Social Responsibility: $150,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetMercy Corps: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT: $145,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST RESEARCH & INFORMATION CENTER: $143,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTRI-VALLEY COMMUNITIES AGAINST A RADIOACTIVE ENVIRONMENT: $140,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $110,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHERBERT SCOVILLE JR PEACE: $110,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetVeterans For Peace Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHORIZON 2045 FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $93,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $85,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL: $80,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWOMEN OF COLOR ADVANCING PEACE AND SECURITY WCAPS: $55,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGAMES FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 GLOBAL ZERO ACTION ↗
  • Who funds The Arms Control Associations ↗
  • Who funds Foreign Policy For America ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Inkstick Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds ReThink Media ↗
  • Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds J STREET ↗
  • Who funds MoveOnorg Civic Action ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NIAC Action ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Win Without War Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
  • Who funds NUCLEAR TRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SECURE FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for a Civil Society LTD ↗
  • Who funds Marshallese Educational Initiative ↗
  • Who funds Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗

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.

Prospect Hill Foundat…Rockefeller Brothers …Jubitz Family Foundat…Carnegie Corporation …John D and Catherine …Spectemur Agendo IncNew Venture FundTides FoundationFoundation to Promote…Colombe Peace Foundat…The Arca FoundationThe Samuel Rubin Foun…
Prospect Hill Foundation IncNY38× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Jubitz Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Colombe Peace Foundation · The Arca Foundation · The Samuel Rubin 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ploughshares Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ploughshares Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 103 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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