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BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (Arizona) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,305,250 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($3,445,500). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
136
Funders on record
$24M
Grants received
$44M
Net assets
83/136 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%

Against its field

BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 269 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 269 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($6.4M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($5.2M)2018 Revenue 81 ($5.2M) Expenses 71 ($4.4M) Net assets 114 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 88 ($5.6M) Expenses 77 ($4.7M) Net assets 136 ($7.1M)2020 Revenue 96 ($6.2M) Expenses 65 ($4.0M) Net assets 178 ($9.3M)2021 Revenue 96 ($6.2M) Expenses 75 ($4.6M) Net assets 213 ($11M)2022 Revenue 122 ($7.8M) Expenses 89 ($5.5M) Net assets 251 ($13M)2023 Revenue 494 ($32M) Expenses 123 ($7.6M) Net assets 728 ($38M)2024 Revenue 197 ($13M) Expenses 132 ($8.2M) Net assets 837 ($44M)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (132)Net assets (837)Peer revenue range

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

90% of BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (19% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 284 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$234k
17
$844k
18
$883k
19
$2.1M
20
$1.5M
21
$2.3M
22
$24M
23
$4.5M
24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $962k → $3.8M.

16 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)49% 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 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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

BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

58% 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 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH.

14%
largest funder
36%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 26% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 17%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

51% of BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 29 states in all.

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL

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

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 136 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

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

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & 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 5%Fundraising 12%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

55%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

AK
VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
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GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Goldwater Institute Holding Company LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH?
BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (Arizona) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,305,250 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($3,445,500). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH have?
IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $24,305,250 in grants to BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $3,445,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 136funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing