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BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$121k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$358k
Net assets
$15k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What Behavioral Science & Policy Association does

Mission

To provide a forum for social science research to help better inform the policies, decisions and implementation of public and private sector organizations, through publications, workshops, briefings, and other scholarly activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Behavioral Science & Policy Association (bspa) has assembled advisory and editorial boards, established an office at duke university, created strategies for additional offices, developed relationships/partnerships with funding and publishing organizations, identified articles for submission and continues work creating a journal for distribution within the behavioral science research and academic community.

    $30,129 spent
    22% of program spending
  2. Bspa is a non-profit membership organization that promotes the application of rigorous behavioral science research to public and private sector policymaking, and disseminates this work to a broad audience. Bspa's annual conference provides an opportunity for attendees to begin a dialogue about the future of behavioral science and policy. Bspa's annual conference was held virtually via live streaming and interactive sessions on may 2nd and 3rd, 2024, and was attended by over 500 leading behavioral scientists, policymakers, executives and press. Bspa has not yet confirmed a date for the 2025 annual conference.

    $103,846 spent$24,725 earned by the program
    78% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,975.

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 ($494k) Expenses 100 ($425k) Net assets 100 ($202k)2018 Revenue 103 ($509k) Expenses 135 ($575k) Net assets 69 ($139k)2019 Revenue 37 ($184k) Expenses 58 ($245k) Net assets 39 ($78k)2020 Revenue 50 ($246k) Expenses 59 ($250k) Net assets 36 ($73k)2021 Revenue 37 ($182k) Expenses 42 ($180k) Net assets 37 ($76k)2022 Revenue 37 ($185k) Expenses 51 ($218k) Net assets 21 ($43k)2023 Revenue 39 ($194k) Expenses 43 ($182k) Net assets 27 ($55k)2024 Revenue 29 ($146k) Expenses 32 ($136k) Net assets 32 ($65k)2025 Revenue 25 ($121k) Expenses 40 ($171k) Net assets 8 ($15k)
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Revenue (25)Expenses (40)Net assets (8)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 2017 to 2018, from $202k to $139k (−31%).

$202k
$139k
$82k
$77k
$76k
$43k
$55k
$65k
$15k
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’17
−$67k
’18
−$61k
’19
−$5k
’20
$2k
’21
−$32k
’22
$12k
’23
$9k
’24
−$49k
’25
5.3
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $308k → $25k.

Funder
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funders
1
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1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION’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

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

93% of BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $333k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 75% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−41% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION?
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,900 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($307,900). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $357,900 in grants to BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $307,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE & POLICY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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