Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED
INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,722,871 to it, the largest being PAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($1,352,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $855k
What Insight Crime Incorporated does
Mission
Insight crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present.it does this by fusing investigative journalism with academic rigor, building its analysis from extensive ground research, which includes speaking to all the actors, legal and illegal. As well as its published work on this website, it works with a network of experts and partners in the region to provide bespoke risk analysis, diagnostics, and opportunities for positive intervention.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides information to the public about organized crime with regular reporting, analysis, and investigation on the subject and on state and national efforts to combat it.
$1,543,543 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,543,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $939k to $2.0M (+116%).
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 20% · 2020 100% · 2021 22% · 2022 30% · 2023 45% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Eric Hershberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $32k → $397k.
From the IRS filings of INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED’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
INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 92% — 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
74% of INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED'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. 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
INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $982k on record.
- Department of State$982k
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 INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED: 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 INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED?
- INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,722,871 to it, the largest being PAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($1,352,987). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,722,871 in grants to INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED?
- PAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,352,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSIGHT CRIME INCORPORATED 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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