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The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$12MHealth$11MInternational$8.6MSocial Science$2.1MScience & Tech$742kFood & Nutrition$69kCommunity Improvement$43k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $919,734 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,264,777 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,345,043 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $389k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$62,876
Median grant
5
States reached
$182M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY$500,165
OAK CREST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE$164,799
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$110,420
EMORY UNIVERSITY$62,876
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$51,179
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$19,921
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,244
PATH$5,130
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OAK CREST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $243k → 14%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $242k → 28%MERIDIAN GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC: $660k → 14%FUTURES INSTITUTE: $984k → 11%Futures Group International LLC: $998k → 11%UNC CHAPEL HILL: $620k → 13%PATH: $209k → 9%Worldreaderorg: $234k → 13%Tulane University: $291k → 23%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.1M → 19%Meridian Group International Inc: $459k → 14%FUTURES INSTITUTE: $445k → 11%Futures Group International LLC: $810k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $476k → 13%PROGRAM FOR APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY IN HEALT: $197k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.9M → 19%FUTURES INSTITUTE: $385k → 11%Futures Group International LLC: $747k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $290k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $744k → 19%Avenir Health: $363k → 11%FUTURES GROUP INTERNATIONAL LLC: $226k → 11%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL: $1.4M → 23%ideas42: $354k → 17%POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU: $540k → 14%Avenir Health: $287k → 11%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 23%ideas42: $332k → 17%POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU: $423k → 14%AVENIR HEALTH: $274k → 11%Tulane University: $1.2M → 23%IDEAS42: $311k → 17%PRB: $365k → 14%AVENIR HEALTH: $247k → 11%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $923k → 23%JHPIEGO CORPORATION: $271k → 19%POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU: $362k → 14%FUTURES INSTITUTE: $238k → 11%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $870k → 23%POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU: $245k → 14%AVENIR HEALTH: $229k → 11%Tulane University: $817k → 23%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 23%Tulane University Tulane National Primate Researc: $497k → 23%Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: $1.4M → 14%GEORGETOWN UNI - INST FOR REPRODUCTIVE HLTH: $255k → 14%Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: $1.4M → 14%Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: $685k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
NY
SD
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA

Grants abroad, by region — $2.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $2.0M to organizations and $44k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.4M · 68% · 23 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: SOCIAL & BEH. SCIENCE · BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$341k · 17% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH · SOCIAL & BEH. SCIENCE

South Asia$212k · 11% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: SOCIAL & BEH. SCIENCE

Central America and the Caribbean$59k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SOCIAL & BEH. SCIENCE

Middle East and North Africa$29k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SOCIAL & BEH. SCIENCE

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34M · 31 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
9

Total granted

$34M
$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalSocial ScienceScience & TechFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +72%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +64%
  • PR
    Population Reference Bureau Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2017 · $122k
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $103k · revenue +58%
  • PI
    PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
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
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
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
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Catalyst Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $8,037,766 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FU…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $4,997,560 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+8 more — $1,434,934 · Education+8 moreELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION — $3,641,314 · HealthELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATR…AVENIR HEALTH INC — $3,608,088 · HealthAVENIR HEALTH INCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $269,885 · Health+3 more — $147,746 · HealthPalladium International — $2,785,458 · OtherPalladium InternationalUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $1,386,385 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAR…MERIDIAN GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,280,203 · OtherMERIDIAN GROUP INTERNAT…JHPIEGO CORPORATION — $472,578 · OtherJHPIEGO CORPORATIONALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $412,740 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $350,095 · Other+8 more — $516,337 · Other+8 morePopulation Reference Bureau Inc — $2,337,248 · Social SciencePopulation …BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC — $1,089,243 · Social ScienceBEHAVIORAL …PATH — $635,969 · InternationalWORLDREADERORG — $272,424 · InternationalCATALYST GLOBAL — $182,181 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $100,000 · International+1 more — $26,785 · InternationalOAK CREST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $724,762 · Science & Tech+1 more — $17,475 · Science & TechINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $68,587 · Food & NutritionTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $42,601 · Community Improvement
Education$14,470,260Health$7,667,033Other$7,203,796Social Science$3,426,491International$1,217,359Science & Tech$742,237Food & Nutrition$68,587Community Improvement$42,601

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $8,037,766 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $4,997,560 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION — $3,641,314 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAVENIR HEALTH INC — $3,608,088 over 7y, 14% of budgetPopulation Reference Bureau Inc — $2,337,248 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC — $1,089,243 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOAK CREST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $724,762 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetPATH — $635,969 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION — $472,578 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $412,740 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $345,635 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $280,631 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDREADERORG — $272,424 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $269,885 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $211,640 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $209,097 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $207,183 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST GLOBAL — $182,181 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $109,123 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $102,972 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $68,587 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $49,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $42,601 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $27,818 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA — $26,785 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $19,405 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE — $19,218 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute — $17,475 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AVENIR HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Population Reference Bureau Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds OAK CREST INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLDREADERORG ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Family Health Interna…Gates FoundationJohns Hopkins Univers…Georgetown UniversityPresident and Fellows…The Trustees of Colum…PathThe George Washington…Brown UniversityJsi Research & Traini…Yale UniversityThe Rockefeller Found…
Family Health International IncNC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Family Health International Inc · Gates Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Georgetown University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Path · The George Washington University · Brown University · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc · Yale University · The Rockefeller Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Population Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Avenir Health Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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