New York · Public charity
The Population Council Inc
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. We take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global goals, including the connections between them:1. Ensure sexual and reproductive health, rights, and…
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $920k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $62,876
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,165
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $182M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Population Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $920k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.2M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $2.5M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $2.0M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $5.3M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $11M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $8.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $8,037,766 | 8 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $4,997,560 | 6 | 0% |
| Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation | $3,641,314 | 4 | 1% |
| Avenir Health Inc | $3,608,088 | 7 | 14% |
| Palladium International | $2,785,458 | 5 | n/a |
| Population Reference Bureau Inc | $2,337,248 | 7 | 7% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $1,386,385 | 3 | n/a |
| Meridian Group International Inc | $1,280,203 | 4 | n/a |
| Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc | $1,089,243 | 7 | 2% |
| Oak Crest Institute of Science | $724,762 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 40 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $8,037,766 | 8 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $4,997,560 | 6 | 0% |
| Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation | $3,641,314 | 4 | 1% |
| Avenir Health Inc | $3,608,088 | 7 | 14% |
| Palladium International | $2,785,458 | 5 | n/a |
| Population Reference Bureau Inc | $2,337,248 | 7 | 7% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $1,386,385 | 3 | n/a |
| Meridian Group International Inc | $1,280,203 | 4 | n/a |
| Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc | $1,089,243 | 7 | 2% |
| Oak Crest Institute of Science | $724,762 | 4 | 5% |
| Path | $635,969 | 6 | 0% |
| Jhpiego Corporation | $472,578 | 3 | 0% |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc | $412,740 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $350,095 | 3 | n/a |
| Emory University | $345,635 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $280,631 | 3 | 0% |
| Worldreaderorg | $272,424 | 2 | 3% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $269,885 | 4 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $237,498 | 4 | n/a |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | $211,640 | 4 | 0% |
| University of San Francisco | $207,183 | 3 | 0% |
| Catalyst Global | $182,181 | 3 | 3% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $121,915 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $109,123 | 2 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $102,972 | 1 | 0% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Food Policy Research Institute | $68,587 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $56,665 | 2 | n/a |
| Cornell University | $49,958 | 2 | 0% |
| Thunder Valley Community Development Cor | $42,601 | 4 | 0% |
| Gobee Group LLC | $31,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe | $30,156 | 2 | n/a |
| Case Western Reserve University | $27,818 | 2 | 0% |
| Aga Khan Foundation USA | $26,785 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisiana State University | $19,744 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council Inc | $19,405 | 2 | 0% |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine | $19,218 | 1 | 0% |
| Research Triangle Institute | $17,475 | 1 | 0% |
| Lsu Health Sciences Center - New Orleans | $12,610 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Population Council Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Population Council Inc
- How much does The Population Council Inc give?
- The Population Council Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $919,734, out of $3,264,777 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Population Council Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (32%), International (25%).
- Who are The Population Council Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($8.0M), Johns Hopkins University ($5.0M), Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation ($3.6M).
- Does The Population Council Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Population Council Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Family Health International Inc, Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins University.
- Where is The Population Council Inc based?
- The Population Council Inc is based in NY.
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