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ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC

ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,132,371 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($31,750,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$70M
Funders on record
125
Grants received
$93M
Net assets
$67M
70/125 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Atlantic Council of the United States Inc does

Mission

The atlantic council, through its research and analysis, promotes constructive leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the atlantic community in meeting global challenges.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Actech: the atlantic council technology programs (actech) work together to address the geopolitical implications of technology and provide policymakers and global stakeholders necessary research, insights, and convenings to address the challenges of global technology and ensure its responsible advancement.

    $10,431,155 spentof which $503,900 as grants$167,860 earned by the program
    18% of program spending
  2. Rafik hariri center and middle east programs: the rafik hariri center and middle east programs are leading the way in providing a forum for informing and galvanizing the transatlantic community to shape a stable and prosperous middle east and north africa.

    $8,268,629 spentof which $117,892 as grants$7,453 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Scowcroft center for strategy and security: the scowcroft center works to develop sustainable, nonpartisan strategies to address the most important security challenges facing the u.s. And its allies and partners. The center honors the legacy of service of general brent scowcroft, including his ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security, support for us leadership in cooperation with allies and partners, and dedication to the mentorship of the next generation of leaders.

    $7,813,273 spent$256,928 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  4. Global energy center: the global energy center develops and promotes pragmatic and nonpartisan policy solutions designed to advance global energy security, enhance economic opportunity, and accelerate pathways to net-zero emissions.

    $6,071,037 spent
    11% of program spending
  5. Geoeconomics center: the geoeconomics center develops data-driven programs, publications, and thought leadership at the nexus of economics, finance, and foreign policy. The center's work is built on the idea that the us must lead with allies or risk becoming a bystander in a reshaped international financial system.

    $4,000,915 spentof which $175,000 as grants
    7% of program spending
  6. Europe center: the europe center provides expertise and building communities to promote transatlantic leadership and a strong europe in turbulent times. The center's convening power and network combine with its extensive research and real-time analysis to promote dialogue, build a forward-looking agenda for the transatlantic partnership, and find solutions to the geopolitical, economic, and technological challenges facing the united states and its european allies.

    $3,753,361 spentof which $205,369 as grants
    7% of program spending
  7. Adrienne arsht latin america center: the atlantic council's adrienne arsht latin america center (aalac) broadens understanding of regional transformations while demonstrating the significance of latin america and the caribbean in a rapidly changing world. The center focuses on pressing political, economic, and strategic issues that define the region's trajectory. The center proposes constructive, results-oriented, nonpartisan solutions to inform public-sector, business, and multilateral action based on a shared vision for a more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable future.

    $3,493,364 spent
    6% of program spending
  8. Climate resilience center: the atlantic council's climate resilience center was formed to reach one billion people with resilience solutions to climate change, migration, and security challenges.

    $3,154,529 spentof which $271,722 as grants
    6% of program spending
  9. Freedom and prosperity center: the freedom and prosperity center aims to increase the well-being of people everywhere, and especially the poor and marginalized in developing countries, through unbiased, data-based research on the relationship between prosperity and economic, political, and legal freedoms, in support of sound policy choices.

    $2,405,487 spentof which $486,900 as grants
    4% of program spending
  10. Eurasia center: the eurasia center's mission is to promote policies that encourage stability, democratic values, and prosperity in eurasia. A democratic, prosperous, and stable eurasia is a core interest for the united states and plays into the atlantic council's focus on great power competition.

    $2,218,997 spent
    4% of program spending
  11. Global china hub: the atlantic council's global china hub researches and devises solutions for the u.s. And its allies to the greatest challenges posed by china's rise, leveraging the atlantic council's work on china across its sixteen programs and centers.

    $1,708,776 spent
    3% of program spending
  12. Africa center: the africa center emphasizes the building of strong partnerships among african states, the u.s. And europe, and strengthening economic growth and prosperity on the continent through sustained multilateral interactions and leading issue analysis.

    $1,296,463 spent
    2% of program spending
  13. Atlantic council turkey program: the atlantic council turkey program aims to support transatlantic relations by strengthening dialogue between the united states and regional nato allies, primarily turkey. In line with the atlantic council's mission of promoting constructive us leadership and engagement in international affairs and in facing global challenges, this program works to bolster transatlantic engagement with turkey and its surrounding region through forward-looking research and high-impact, high-level convenings covering energy, economics, business, technology, defense, and security.

    $1,114,913 spent
    2% of program spending
  14. Millennium leadership program: the atlantic council's millennium leadership program (mlp) works to connect and empower next-generation international changemakers who will shape the twenty-first century, to address our world's most pressing challenges.

    $1,001,171 spent
    2% of program spending
  15. South asia center: the atlantic council's south asia center (sac) is the focal point for the atlantic council's analysis of issues concerning the political, social, geographical, and cultural diversity of the region. At the intersection of south asia and its geopolitics, sac facilitates constructive dialogue to shape policy and forge ties between the region and the global community by producing cutting-edge analysis, convening key stakeholders, and amplifying policy conversations.

    $368,058 spent
    1% of program spending

The 15 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,100,128.

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 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($28M) Net assets 100 ($38M)2018 Revenue 82 ($30M) Expenses 102 ($28M) Net assets 100 ($39M)2019 Revenue 187 ($68M) Expenses 128 ($35M) Net assets 191 ($73M)2020 Revenue 105 ($38M) Expenses 131 ($36M) Net assets 202 ($77M)2021 Revenue 119 ($43M) Expenses 158 ($44M) Net assets 208 ($80M)2022 Revenue 150 ($55M) Expenses 224 ($62M) Net assets 161 ($62M)2023 Revenue 175 ($64M) Expenses 258 ($71M) Net assets 161 ($62M)2024 Revenue 192 ($70M) Expenses 247 ($68M) Net assets 174 ($67M)
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Revenue (192)Expenses (247)Net assets (174)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 2023 to 2024, from $90M to $136M (+51%).

$46M
$46M
$82M
$86M
$90M
$87M
$90M
$136M
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 13% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 388 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.

$8.7M
’17
$1.5M
’18
$33M
’19
$1.7M
’20
−$665k
’21
−$7.3M
’22
−$7.7M
’23
$1.5M
’24
0.9
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

Frederick Kempe

President and CEO

Board chair

John Fw Rogers

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed4846434746484649
Joined·+4+16+5+8+6+6+7
No longer listed·61919484
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $20M.

21 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.9M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 funders by total. 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

ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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

40% 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 ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC.

34%
largest funder
53%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 39% · 2019 75% · 2020 53% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% — 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

42% of ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.

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IL
MI
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MA
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NJ
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

36
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

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WI
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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Fundacja Atlantic Council in Europe · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC?
ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,132,371 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($31,750,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC have?
IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $93,132,371 in grants to ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC?
THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC 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 125 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