Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,767,527 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($194,866,514). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $201M
- Net assets
- $485k
What Center for International Private Enterprise Inc does
Mission
The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. Working alongside local partners, cipe helps to raise the voice of business in policy making and reduce barriers to economic participation, resulting in greater accountability and opportunities for all citizens. Cipe's extensive partner network includes business associations and chambers of commerce representing millions of micros, small, and medium-sized enterprises from nearly every sector. Through the creation of business agendas, data-rich resources, and other initiatives, they play a leading role in helping governments and communities address complex challenges. Among the key focuses: combating corruption, economic security, access to information, trade facilitation, advancing women's economic empowerment, and supporting youth entrepreneurship. Founded in 1983, cipe is a core institute of the national endowment for democracy and a non-profit affiliate of the u.s. Chamber of commerce. Cipe is a global non-profit organization committed to strengthening…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Business advocacy & enterprise ecosystemsgiven the established connection between strong democracies and resilient economies, cipe employs a business lens to support its mission, working most closely with networks of small and medium-sized enterprises. They are the economic engines in most countries, with the potential to offer innovations and inform policies that bring about greater economic opportunity. Cipe's current programs include a fleet of initiatives and resources to support private sector collective action and build the capacity of business membership groups, notably associations and chambers of commerce, as well as think tanks and other locally engaged organizations. Vital efforts include public-private dialogue and partnerships for regulatory reform to create a more enabling environment for business. This has included developing post-covid economic recovery plans in numerous countries, as well as business for peace initiatives in conflict and post-conflict zones such as the sahel, sudan, colombia, ukraine, and yemen. This often also involves working with governments and others to deliver essential services to citizens and address supply chain challenges.
$8,156,640 spentof which $810,797 as grants35% of program spendingReducing barriers to economic opportunitywork to support democratic governance and the institutions of a market economy must include efforts to reduce barriers to doing business and promoting an entrepreneurial culture with opportunities for all citizens. Cipe and partners worldwide are addressing a range of issues: access to information and finance, property rights, and the large volume of informal economic activities in many countries. Many governments and peer organizations are looking to cipe's center of excellence for women's economic empowerment for leadership in fostering economic opportunity. Core activities in papua new guinea, guatemala, and other countries include the operation of women's business resource centers, growing women's business networks, and increased work to combat violence against women and sexual harassment. As a host organization of the global alliance for trade facilitation, cipe is supporting public-private dialogue to streamline and modernize customs clearing and other processes in ecuador, brazil, malawi, and other countries. Cipe also continues to expand entrepreneurship and civic engagement opportunities for growing youth populations and persons…
$8,119,024 spentof which $807,058 as grants35% of program spendingAnti-corruption, ethics & economic resiliencetransparency, commitment to business integrity, and investment screening mechanisms are essential to combating corruption and other threats to economies and democracies, such as corrosive capital investments from authoritarian regimes. Cipe's award-winning anti-corruption and compliance work includes programs like the africa ethics 1st initiative, which helps businesses embrace global standards and become better candidates for trade and investment. Cipe's anti-corruption and governance center has developed numerous guides on issues such as beneficial ownership transparency and oversees a database that tracks corruption trends across more than 100 countries. Cipe's center for accountable investment advises countries on how to position themselves to receive constructive capital financing options from foreign sources and be less vulnerable to potentially damaging deals. This work includes a growing body of case studies and data from partners across asia and the pacific, africa, and latin america that assess the impact of china's belt and road initiative investments on recipient countries.
$7,014,187 spentof which $697,233 as grants30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,289,851.
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.
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 $7.0M to $21M (+204%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Andrew Wilson
Executive director
Board chair
Gregori Lebedev
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20M → $35M.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC’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
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
99% of CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.3M on record.
- Department of State$44.8M
- Agency for International Development$549k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chamber of Commerce of the USA · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC?
- CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,767,527 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ($194,866,514). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $200,767,527 in grants to CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC?
- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY is the largest funder on record, with $194,866,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE 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.
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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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing