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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.

$4.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

International$2.4MScience & Tech$1.5MEducation$1.4MSocial Science$1.1MCommunity Improvement$714kHealth$317kHousing & Shelter$295kPublic Benefit$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,375,045, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,522,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,147,516 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

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $358k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
$55,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$572M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIES GPS LLC$200,000
RM DONAHUE CONSULTING$116,925
THE URBAN INSTITUTE$113,213
NATIONAL CORPORATE HOUSING INC$95,228
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$73,105
INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$72,500
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$61,422
GALLUP INC$59,000
WHITEHEAD ADVISORY SERVICES LLC$58,998
LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY$56,400
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY$55,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$54,916
GREATER AKRON CHAMBER$43,334
PROSPER FOUNDATION$43,334
GREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$43,334
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 (FY22–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROSPER FOUNDATION: $67k → 16%CHILD TRENDS INC: $15k → 8%PROSPER FOUNDATION: $43k → 16%CHILD TRENDS INC: $15k → 8%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

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.9M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $1.8M to organizations and $77k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$833k · 43% · 7 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY · FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS

South Asia$299k · 16% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY · FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS

South America$252k · 13% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$200k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY

North America (Canada and Mexico)$174k · 9% · 2 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY · FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS

Middle East and North Africa$168k · 9% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM ACTIVITY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 32 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
6

Total granted

$7.6M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-2%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • RF
    RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +8%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $504k · revenue +36%
  • TN
    The New School
    2× · 2022–2023 · $375k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • EA
    ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    one grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue +11%
  • LI
    Lawfare Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -2%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University; the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
17/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $2,388,873 · InternationalRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE …Global Impact: $90,000 · InternationalCITIES GPS LLC: $440,000 · OtherCITIES GPS LLCRM DONAHUE CONSULTING: $329,925 · OtherRM DONAHUE CONSULTINGGallup Inc: $236,000 · OtherGallup IncFIN BUSINESS LLC: $234,000 · OtherFIN BUSINESS LLCNATIONAL CORPORATE HOUSING INC: $170,324 · OtherNATIONAL CORPORATE HOUSING INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $125,000 · OtherWHITEHEAD ADVISORY SERVICES LLC: $117,996 · OtherGREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $110,000 · OtherCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER: $110,000 · OtherGREATER AKRON CHAMBER: $110,000 · OtherTHE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $110,000 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITY: $102,773 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $97,500 · Other+4 more: $177,410 · Other+4 moreThe New School: $375,000 · EducationThe New SchoolAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $259,603 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $220,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSIT…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $161,711 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSIT…The George Washington University: $130,000 · EducationThe George Washingto…LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $112,800 · EducationLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF…New York University: $80,000 · EducationNew York UniversityEmory University: $51,000 · Education+3 more: $95,842 · Education+3 moreCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $504,318 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $125,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE…GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST…NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHO…THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $480,358 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $102,182 · Social ScienceECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE: $150,000 · Public BenefitLawfare Institute: $50,000 · Public BenefitPROSPER FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesCHILD TRENDS INC: $30,000 · Human Services
International$2,478,873Other$2,470,928Education$1,485,956Community Improvement$789,318Social Science$582,540Public Benefit$200,000Human Services$140,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $2,388,873 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $480,358 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe New School: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $259,603 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $220,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $161,711 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $112,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPER FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER AKRON CHAMBER: $110,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $110,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $102,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $97,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $51,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLawfare Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG 1OVE FOUNDATION: $41,900 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $41,409 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $34,510 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD TRENDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $29,433 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Kresge FoundationJohns Hopkins Univers…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Child Trends Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report 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.

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 40 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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