How much does The Brookings Institution give?

The Brookings Institution reported 21 itemized grants totaling $1,375,045, out of $4,522,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does The Brookings Institution fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Science & Tech (19%), Education (17%).

Who are The Brookings Institution's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Results for Development Institute Inc ($2.4M), Center for Economic Inclusion ($504k), The Urban Institute ($480k).

Does The Brookings Institution fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Brookings Institution?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kresge Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Where is The Brookings Institution based?

The Brookings Institution is based in DC.

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The Brookings Institution

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level. Headquartered in washington, dc, brookings is organized into five research programs that focus on domestic and…

$4.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 28
Organizations funded FY2024: 46%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $55,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 28; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $572M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations The Brookings Institution funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesSocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	19	$1.4M	0%
FY2024	28	$2.3M	46%
FY2023	23	$2.5M	61%
FY2022	11	$1.9M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

International$2.4MScience & Tech$1.5MEducation$1.4MSocial Science$1.1MCommunity Improvement$714kHealth$317kHousing & Shelter$295kPublic Benefit$150kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Results for Development Institute Inc	$2,388,873	3	3%
Center for Economic Inclusion	$504,318	2	n/a
The Urban Institute	$480,358	4	0%
Cities Gps LLC	$440,000	3	n/a
The New School	$375,000	2	0%
Rm Donahue Consulting	$329,925	3	n/a
American University	$259,603	4	0%
Gallup Inc	$236,000	3	n/a
Fin Business LLC	$234,000	2	n/a
The Howard University	$220,000	4	0%

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All grantees of The Brookings Institution by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Results for Development Institute Inc	$2,388,873	3	3%
Center for Economic Inclusion	$504,318	2	n/a
The Urban Institute	$480,358	4	0%
Cities Gps LLC	$440,000	3	n/a
The New School	$375,000	2	0%
Rm Donahue Consulting	$329,925	3	n/a
American University	$259,603	4	0%
Gallup Inc	$236,000	3	n/a
Fin Business LLC	$234,000	2	n/a
The Howard University	$220,000	4	0%
National Corporate Housing Inc	$170,324	2	n/a
Washington University	$161,711	3	0%
Economic Architecture	$150,000	1	5%
The George Washington University	$130,000	2	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$125,000	2	n/a
Enterprise Community Partners Inc	$125,000	2	0%
Whitehead Advisory Services LLC	$117,996	2	n/a
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy	$112,800	2	0%
Prosper Foundation	$110,000	2	2%
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce	$110,000	2	2%
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber	$110,000	2	0%
Greater Akron Chamber	$110,000	2	1%
Greater St Louis Inc Foundation	$110,000	2	1%
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City	$110,000	2	3%
Rowan University	$102,773	2	n/a
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	$102,182	1	0%
International Food Policy Research Institute	$97,500	2	0%
New York University	$80,000	2	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$51,000	2	n/a
Emory University	$51,000	2	0%
Neighborhood Progress Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Lawfare Institute	$50,000	1	3%
Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp	$50,000	2	2%
Young 1ove Foundation	$41,900	2	1%
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$41,409	1	0%
United Way of Central Iowa	$34,510	1	0%
Child Trends Inc	$30,000	2	0%
The Catholic University of America	$29,433	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brookings Institution supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

The Kresge FoundationMI12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About The Brookings Institution

How much does The Brookings Institution give?: The Brookings Institution reported 21 itemized grants totaling $1,375,045, out of $4,522,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does The Brookings Institution fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Science & Tech (19%), Education (17%).
Who are The Brookings Institution's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Results for Development Institute Inc ($2.4M), Center for Economic Inclusion ($504k), The Urban Institute ($480k).
Does The Brookings Institution fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Brookings Institution?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kresge Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is The Brookings Institution based?: The Brookings Institution is based in DC.