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The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

$265k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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89% of The Roosevelt Institute’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’18
2
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2024
$124k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$44M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Roosevelt Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$14k100%
FY20211$28k0%
FY20202$69kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.3MEducation$637kSocial Science$28kScience & Tech$21k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$76,41820%
University of Massachusetts$20,9661n/a
Pace University$8,00010%
The Trustees of Princeton University$6,00010%

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About The Roosevelt Institute

How much does The Roosevelt Institute give?
The Roosevelt Institute reported 3 itemized grants totaling $124,000, out of $265,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does The Roosevelt Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (88%), Education (11%), Social Science (0%).
Who are The Roosevelt Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($76k), University of Massachusetts ($21k), Pace University ($8k).
Does The Roosevelt Institute fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Roosevelt Institute based?
The Roosevelt Institute is based in NY.

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 6 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $506k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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