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COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS

COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,401,780 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.3M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$955k
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Council on Competitiveness does

Mission

To set an action agenda that drives economic growth and raises the standard of living for all americans.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. National innovation commission - the commission actively engages peer private-sector leaders to confront and overcome the critical challenges facing the u.s. Innovation agenda and to create momentum in the united states to outpace the rest of the world in innovation capacity, capability and competitiveness.

    $1,096,068 spent
    38% of program spending

  2. Technology leadership and strategy initiative - the technology leadership and strategy initiative brings together chief technology officers from business and academia to identify practices in risk management and operational systems, business processes, technology tools, training programs, and public-private partnerships that enhance both industrial competitiveness and national security.

    $831,057 spent
    28% of program spending

  3. National competitiveness forum - a platform for council members andother thought leaders from industry, government, labor, academia andthe national laboratories to engage in conversation, elaborate onideas, and analyze america's competitiveness capacity in order toaddress the pressing and emerging priorities of america's economy.

    $527,683 spent
    18% of program spending

  4. Council of councils - this program provides support for the global federation of competitiveness councils, a section 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to meet the challenges in the global economic landscape, to identify and support policies and programs to stimulate economic growth, and foster innovation and strengthen national competitiveness.

    $191,840 spent
    7% of program spending

  5. Globalization initiative - catalyzes leadership dialogues among u.s. Businesses, universities, labor unions and their counterparts on a range of issues that impact trade, productivity and competitiveness; advanced computing-the scope of the grant is to conduct research into issues of the potential value of high performance computing (hpc) to improve u.s. Industry's competitiveness.

    $272,176 spent
    9% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,918,824.

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 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($96k)2018 Revenue 82 ($3.6M) Expenses 91 ($4.0M) Net assets -282 ($-271172)2019 Revenue 105 ($4.6M) Expenses 92 ($4.0M) Net assets 365 ($351k)2020 Revenue 104 ($4.5M) Expenses 90 ($3.9M) Net assets 591 ($568k)2021 Revenue 79 ($3.5M) Expenses 72 ($3.1M) Net assets 1157 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 73 ($3.2M) Expenses 82 ($3.6M) Net assets 593 ($570k)2023 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 82 ($3.6M) Net assets 1434 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 75 ($3.3M) Expenses 85 ($3.7M) Net assets 993 ($955k)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (85)Net assets (993)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $4.1M (+66%).

$2.1M
$1.6M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$2.7M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’17
−$367k
’18
$622k
’19
$635k
’20
$332k
’21
−$381k
’22
$809k
’23
−$424k
’24
2.1
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.

Board chair

Brian T Moynihan

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed13121099899
Joined·+0+2+0+2+2+1+1
No longer listed·1412301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $120k → $33k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
Vanderbilt Universityunclassified
$54k
Webster Universityunclassified
$10k
funders
4
3
2
3
4
3
2
3
5

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS’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

COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% 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 COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS.

36%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 92% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — 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

0% of COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.

NY
OR
OH
PA
MO
VA
AZ
TN
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record — $1.2M federal, $16k state.

Federal$1.2M
grants $1.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$784k
  • National Science Foundation$454k
State$16k
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By state
  • OK$16k
  • NJ$30

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 COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS

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.

Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils90%American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research83%Center for Community Change Action83%Council for Opportunity in Education82%American Council of Trustees and Alumni82%Council for Innovation Promotion82%The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation Inc82%Coalition for a Prosperous America Education Fund81%

Nationally

Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils90%American Commitment84%American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research83%Center for Collaborative Education Inc83%Center for Community Change Action83%Community Catalyst Inc83%Corporation for a Skilled Workforce82%The Center for Community Solutions82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS?
COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,401,780 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,401,780 in grants to COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 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