Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EQUIS INSTITUTE
EQUIS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,697,504 to it, the largest being Foundation to Promote Open Society ($15,108,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EQUIS INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Democracy Fund Incshared funders
- Charles and Marie Robertson Foundationportfolio match
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
99% of EQUIS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $8.8M → $14M.
12 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 EQUIS INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
EQUIS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 EQUIS INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 73% — 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.
Where its funders are
EQUIS INSTITUTE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Charles and Marie Robertson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Ketterer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Old Oak Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kresa Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Markkula Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foraker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Screaming Comet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ted Muhs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Seth Staley Educational Foundation a Nevada Nonprofit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marc & Eva Stern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like EQUIS INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUIS INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EQUIS INSTITUTE?
- EQUIS INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,697,504 to it, the largest being Foundation to Promote Open Society ($15,108,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUIS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $44,697,504 in grants to EQUIS INSTITUTE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUIS INSTITUTE?
- Foundation to Promote Open Society is the largest funder on record, with $15,108,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUIS 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing