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.

The Population Council Inc

The Population Council Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 8 grants below total $919,734, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,264,777 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,345,043 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 · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$50k–250k4 grants · $389k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$62,876

Median grant

States reached

$182M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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

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:

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

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

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$34M · 31 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthInternationalSocial ScienceScience & TechFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

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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%

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.

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

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

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

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

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education

Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

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

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

19/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

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.

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

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 Population Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Population Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home