· Public charity
Population Reference Bureau Inc
PRB harnesses the power of population data to inform and advance solutions to the most urgent challenges facing our world and improve the well-being of people globally.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JSI Research & Training Institute | $854,183 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $286,361 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $845k) 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.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $224k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $213k to organizations and $11k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Develop data-driven childcare policy recommendations for working women in Senegal · Analysis and technical assistance on women's unpaid care work · Produce media content on unpaid care domestic work
Stated purpose: Support reporting on primary healthcare access and delivery in low- and middle-income countries
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Population Reference Bureau Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 10%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +34%- DRDEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $857k · revenue +30% · 94% of their budget
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY PLANNING4× · 2019–2022 · $845k · revenue -90% · 75% of their budget
Funded once
- WWWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARSone grant, 2018 · $73k · revenue +19%
- AHAVENIR HEALTH INCone grant, 2022 · $66k · revenue -9%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +110%
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
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPING RADIO PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY PLANNING ↗
- Who funds WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds AVENIR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Population Reference Bureau Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Population Reference Bureau Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc: 69% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Avenir Health Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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