Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Conservative Partnership Institute
Conservative Partnership Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,628,841 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($10,489,675). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 143
- Grants received
- $63M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Conservative Partnership Institute does
Mission
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is dedicated to providing a platform for citizen leaders, the conservative movement, Members of Congress, congressional staff and scholars to be connected. The Organization works to provide these leaders with the tools, tactics, resources, and strategies to help make them more successful in advancing conservative policy solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) educates the public, government leaders and staffers, nonprofit leaders and staffers, and advocates on Capitol Hill. Specifically, CPI hosts multi-week seminars for government and nonprofit staffers on the technical knowledge required to be an effective public policy staffer. CPI also works to place qualified staffers in public policy positions in government and other nonprofit organizations. CPI hosts policy meetings and informal gatherings for advocates, government leaders, nonprofit leaders, and their staffers, to meet and debate policy. Finally, CPI educates the public by having staffers comment on policy and procedural issues in radio and television interviews and op-eds. Through educational seminars and training programs, in 2024 CPI trained 371 staff from conservative organizations, nonprofits, and Congressional offices, and hosted 114 educational training seminars and networking events. CPI's staffing services team received 184 requests for staff candidates and sent resumes for 257 open positions.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $32M to $63M (+100%).
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.
94% of Conservative Partnership Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 71 funders, grant income rose $155k → $17M.
23 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Conservative Partnership Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 143 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
Conservative Partnership Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
70% 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 Conservative Partnership Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 19% · 2019 24% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 31% — 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
58% of Conservative Partnership Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
52% of Conservative Partnership Institute'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 $30M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
Conservative Partnership Institute has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Conservative Partnership Institute
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- 753 LLC · disregarded
- Brunswick Partners LLC · disregarded
- Clear Plains Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Federal Investors LLC · disregarded
- Houston Group LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute?
- Conservative Partnership Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,628,841 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($10,489,675). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Conservative Partnership Institute have?
- IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $62,628,841 in grants to Conservative Partnership Institute, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Conservative Partnership Institute?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,489,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Conservative Partnership Institute 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 143 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