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Public Private Strategies Institute

PUBLIC PRIVATE STRATEGIES INSTITUTE (ppsi) is an independent research and education organization that engages in educational activities concerning the public and private sectors' roles in advancing societal change.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.5MCivil Rights$1.2MEducation$425kReligion$385kPhilanthropy$300kFood & Nutrition$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $956k
$57,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION$225,000
NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION$150,780
MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC$125,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE$120,000
PUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA$85,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$75,000
STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA$60,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS$57,500
WORLD RELIEF$57,500
US BLACK CHAMBERS INC$15,000
USHCC$15,000
NATIONAL ACE FOUNDATION$10,000
NAWBO INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT$10,000
JABEZ MINISTRIES$10,000
WOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC$10,000
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 (FY22–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITYGATE NETWORK: $39k → 9%NAHPA: $145k → 8%NAHPA: $75k → 8%NATIONAL ACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 12 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
143

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+40%

Still filing today

83%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • MW
    Mormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $373k · revenue +778% · 25% of their budget
  • NL
    NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $324k · revenue ×12 · 58% of their budget
  • FA
    FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $235k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • LN
    LEADERSHIP NOW PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $568k · revenue +40%
  • CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +66%
  • BF
    Bread for the World Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +26%
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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
3
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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4
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation Inc

Interfaith alliance is a growing network of people of diverse faiths and beliefs across the country working together to build a resilient democracy and fulfill america's promise of religious freedom and civil rights not just for some, but…

Religion
5
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
6
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
7
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
8
Northwest Progressive Institute

The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…

Civil Rights
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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10
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
11
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Now Project; the most unlike its peers is Auburn Theological Seminary. 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

26 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. 26 of the 167 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)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT: $568,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECTNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $346,250 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSSojourners Inc: $220,000 · OtherSojourners IncMINORITY BUSINESS LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC: $125,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $150,000 · OtherStudents for Life of America Inc: $140,000 · OtherPUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA: $145,000 · Other+146 more: $1,950,000 · Other+146 moreMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation: $372,500 · Public BenefitMormon Wome…FCNL EDUCATION FUND: $220,000 · Public BenefitFCNL EDUCAT…NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC: $324,060 · ReligionNATIONAL L…FAITH FOR JUSTICE: $201,250 · ReligionFAITH FOR …THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC: $270,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $75,000 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $60,000 · EducationUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 · EducationCharity Navigator: $220,000 · Human ServicesAssociation of Gospel Rescue Missions: $39,000 · Human ServicesACE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $235,000 · Arts & CultureBread for the World Institute: $120,000 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $57,500 · International
Other$3,644,250Public Benefit$592,500Religion$525,310Education$420,000Human Services$269,000Arts & Culture$235,000International$177,500

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 budgetLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT: $568,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation: $372,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC: $324,060 over 3y, 58% of budgetTHE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC: $270,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $235,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCharity Navigator: $220,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSojourners Inc: $220,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $220,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFAITH FOR JUSTICE: $201,250 over 2y, 23% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA: $145,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $120,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE: $120,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $57,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Gospel Rescue Missions: $39,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAWBO INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEXTGEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS UNITED: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

NAACP Empowerment Pro…Hopewell FundPharmaceutical Resear…Lilly Endowment IncTides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
NAACP Empowerment Programs IncMD11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · Hopewell Fund · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Lilly Endowment Inc · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Public Private Strategies Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Public Private Strategies Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Public Private Strategies Institute?

Find your warmest path to Public Private Strategies Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 167 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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