Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC POLICY CENTER
DC POLICY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,929 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($1,815,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $598k
What DC Policy Center does
Mission
The mission of the d.c. Policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in the district of columbia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Economic research and urban policy analysis focused on housing, economic development, and public education. During the year, the organization published 22 major reports and 26 "chart of the week" analyses; provided testimony before the d.c. Council 23 times; and received 64 media mentions in major outlets, including the washington post, washington business journal, the wall street journal, and the new york times, as well as television and radio interviews. The organization's research reached a broad public audience, generating approximately 695,000 website page views and 322,365 unique users.
$1,191,166 spent$124,777 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,191,166.
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 2019 to 2020, from $478k to $1.2M (+143%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of DC POLICY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Yesim Sayin
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Klein
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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $376k → $526k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $75k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Washington Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DC POLICY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of DC POLICY CENTER’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
DC POLICY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 DC POLICY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 53% · 2022 57% · 2023 44% — 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 DC POLICY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of DC POLICY CENTER'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. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DC POLICY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DC POLICY CENTER
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DC POLICY CENTER: 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 DC POLICY CENTER?
- DC POLICY CENTER (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,780,929 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($1,815,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DC POLICY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,780,929 in grants to DC POLICY CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC POLICY CENTER?
- EDUCATION FORWARD DC is the largest funder on record, with $1,815,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC POLICY CENTER 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 18 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