Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,481,291 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($19,930,454). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $120M
- Net assets
- $210M
What Center for Strategic and International Studies does
Mission
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The csis international security program (isp) is a constant source of reliable analysis on the threats and opportunities shaping u.s. Security interests at home and abroad.isp tackles one of the most robust and ambitious research agendas in the field. It covers conventional political-military issues, including defense strategy and policy, acquisition and industry, counterterrorism and homeland security, u.s. Nuclear policy, wmd proliferation, defense budget analysis, missile defense, strategic futures, and security cooperation. Isp is also committed to addressing a growing range of nonmilitary issues defining u.s. Foreign and security policy.nonpartisan/bipartisan analysis of the ongoing defense and security challenges facing the nation provides congress, the executive branch, and industry the information needed to make tough decisions. Isp assembles top-level leaders and provides the platform for them to define critical issues and explain the impact nationally and globally.
$8,144,899 spent$2,025,941 earned by the program19% of program spendingThe csis chair on india and emerging asia economics aims to unlock the full potential of u.s. Partnerships with india and the broader asia region. While continuing to lead the center's work on india, the chair has expanded to include emerging economies across asia, fostering u.s. Economic security, economic development, and deepening business engagement between these countries and the united states. We remain the leading authority on state-level political-economic issues in india and have spearheaded multiple funded projects to enhance subnational engagement
$2,564,985 spent6% of program spendingThe energy and security team provides the analysis leaders need to build energy security, address global climate change, and alleviate energy injustice.they provide innovative, strategic insights and policy solutions by examining energy issues at the intersection of geopolitics, policy, markets, and development. Collaborating with leaders in government, industry, academia, and civil society, the team develops projects to help decisionmakers design smart energy policies that balance economic, environmental, and security priorities.
$2,462,772 spent6% of program spendingOther programs
$30,336,290 spent$4,599,075 earned by the program70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,508,946.
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 $202M to $246M (+22%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 10% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
John J Hamre - President
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Board chair
Thomas J Pritzker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $14M → $21M.
17 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $1.6M from 16 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 21% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 27% · 2023 10% — 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
45% of CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 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 STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39.9M on record.
- Department of Defense$20.5M
- Agency for International Development$7.5M
- Department of State$5.8M
- Department of Energy$4.7M
- Executive Office of the President$700k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$336k
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 STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: 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 CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES?
- CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,481,291 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($19,930,454). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $120,481,291 in grants to CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $19,930,454 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 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 130 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