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ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE

ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,044,467 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$180k
9/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Archbridge Institute does

Mission

To rekindle the american dream of opportunity and earned success in the united states and around the world by producing, funding, and disseminating multidisciplinary academic and policy research that will lift barriers to economic mobility based on the principles of personal responsibility, rule of law, and entrepreneurship.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Economic mobility research series: the Archbridge Institute focuses its multidisciplinary academic and policy research on key structural economic and institutional indicators like the rule of law, entrepreneurship, and social capital as well as other indicators that may be outside the field of traditional economics but are closely linked to economic mobility.

    $3,076,502 spentof which $1,531,573 as grants$35,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,076,502.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 237 ($232k) Expenses 70 ($223k) Net assets 303 ($13k)2019 Revenue 516 ($506k) Expenses 75 ($239k) Net assets 6630 ($280k)2020 Revenue 634 ($622k) Expenses 147 ($467k) Net assets 10289 ($435k)2021 Revenue 1378 ($1.4M) Expenses 368 ($1.2M) Net assets 14481 ($612k)2022 Revenue 2169 ($2.1M) Expenses 596 ($1.9M) Net assets 19959 ($843k)2023 Revenue 986 ($966k) Expenses 473 ($1.5M) Net assets 7153 ($302k)2024 Revenue 1931 ($1.9M) Expenses 632 ($2.0M) Net assets 4256 ($180k)
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Revenue (1931)Expenses (632)Net assets (4256)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $891k to $519k (−42%).

$8k
$27k
$283k
$445k
$650k
$891k
$519k
$323k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$221k
’17
$9k
’18
$267k
’19
$155k
’20
$177k
’21
$225k
’22
−$541k
’23
−$122k
’24
0.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Gonzalo Schwarz

Director/president/CEO

Board chair

Ingrid Gregg

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed54445556
Joined·+0+1+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·1100000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $31k → $445k.

7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE.

23%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 58% · 2019 64% · 2020 43% · 2021 42% · 2022 54% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

36% of ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.

WI
NY
IN
PA
VA
MD
KS
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $860k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)53% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

MI
NY
PA
NJ
VA
DC
AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE?
ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,044,467 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($700,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,044,467 in grants to ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE?
SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARCHBRIDGE INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing