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INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES
INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,687,576 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($1,387,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $332M
What Institute for Defense Analyses does
Mission
The Institute for Defense Analyses is organized for the purpose of applied research. The Institute for Defense Analyses provides independent and objective scientific and technological expertise to assist national security decision-makers in addressing urgent and challenging issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Institute for Defense Analyses (ida) conducts research and development activities for the department of defense and other federal departments and agencies. The ida systems and analyses center assists the office of the secretary of defense, the joint staff, the combatant commands and defense agencies; the ida center for communications and computing assists the national security agency; the science and technology policy institute provides analytic support for the office of science and technology policy in the executive office of the white house.
$308,989,935 spent$345,350,429 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $308,989,935.
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 2020 to 2021, from $474M to $672M (+42%).
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.
0% of INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (36% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Norton Schwartz
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $484k → $585k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES’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
INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 29 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 29 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1B on record.
- Department of Defense$2.0B
- National Science Foundation$59.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.0M
- Department of Commerce$6.3M
- Department of Homeland Security$5.0M
- Department of Energy$3.4M
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 INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES: 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 INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES?
- INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,687,576 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($1,387,576). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,687,576 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,387,576 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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