Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,632,799 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,636,038). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Institute for Responsible Citizenship does
Mission
The institute impacts communities, our country, and the world by preparing some of the nation's most talented college students to use their extraordinary gifts for service in a variety of fields. Institute alumni are currently serving as teachers and professors, pastors and counselors, lawyers and judges, doctors, entrepreneurs and business leaders, elected officials, and other impactful careers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The institute's flagship program is based on five core beliefs: 1) men with the greatest potential should be challenged to pursue the highest achievement. 2) men who work hard to live virtuous lives and achieve academic success should be recognized and rewarded. 3) men who are destined for leadership should understand fundamental economic, constitutional, and ethical principles. 4) men who strive to make a difference can have a greater impact by working together. 5) men of character should be encouraged to pursue success as a platform for service to their communities, our nation, and the world. Each year, we select 12 of the nation's best and brightest african american male college students for an intensive two-summer program that includes high-level internships in their fields of interest, rigorous academic seminars, professional development workshops, private meetings with public and private sector leaders, a variety of social activities, visits to important institutions in washington and elsewhere, and illuminating conversations around the dinner table. To date, more than 250 young men have participated in the washington program. Five of them have been named rhodes scholars,…
$1,353,190 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,353,190.
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 $1.2M to $2.6M (+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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
William A Keyes Iv
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $385k → $1.1M.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP’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 RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 52% · 2020 43% · 2021 40% · 2022 62% · 2023 61% — 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
100% of INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M 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.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP?
- INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,632,799 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,636,038). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $9,632,799 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $4,636,038 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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