New York · Nonprofit
CERGE-EI FOUNDATION
CERGE-EI FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,177 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($8,850,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Cerge-Ei Foundation does
Mission
Our purpose is to improve the standard of economics education across central, eastern and southeastern europe, the south caucasus and central asia regions and ensure that these countries remain on the path towards economic and personal freedom.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The cerge-ei teaching fellowships support western-trained graduate students and post-doctoral teachers in the effort to expand the teaching of modern market economics to undergraduates in a region where it was previously unknown. The teaching fellows program provided over 175 courses to more than 10,667 students in the spring 2023 semester. During 2023, the program had 179 fellows at 85 universities in 23 countries.
$1,427,616 spentof which $1,032,071 as grants38% of program spendingSupport for the cerge-ei doctoral program in economics for promising students from the former soviet bloc and other developing nations that is totally tuition free, building a base of knowledge and expertise in modern market economics in a region where it was previously unknown.
$1,426,003 spentof which $1,040,393 as grants37% of program spendingThe undergraduate program in central european studies is an american junior-year study-abroad program designed to expand u.s. Students' education in the study of central europe and to further expand knowledge of the cerge-ei program through american academia. Among the nine sending institutions, four were sending students for the first time since the pandemic. The group had a large proportion of economics students, with ten pursuing the certificate in international economics & finance.
$949,814 spentof which $23,000 as grants$1,264,900 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,803,433.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $12M (−10%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of CERGE-EI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Burkhard Dallosch
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $1.7M.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 CERGE-EI FOUNDATION’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
CERGE-EI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
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 CERGE-EI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 90% · 2023 82% — 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
71% of CERGE-EI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 63% 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
92% of CERGE-EI FOUNDATION'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 $797k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CERGE-EI FOUNDATION receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.8M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CERGE-EI FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CERGE-EI FOUNDATION: 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 CERGE-EI FOUNDATION?
- CERGE-EI FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,838,177 to it, the largest being Donors Trust Inc ($8,850,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CERGE-EI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $9,838,177 in grants to CERGE-EI FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CERGE-EI FOUNDATION?
- Donors Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $8,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CERGE-EI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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