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INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC
INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,050 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($127,390). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Institute for Spending Reform Inc does
Mission
The institute to reduce spending engages in and promotes rigorous academic research and scholarship on the subject of federal spending and budgeting. We seek to create a national, nonpartisan dialogue regarding spending reform by presenting information in a publicly accessible manner.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Spendingtracker.org the institute compiled and tracked every congressional budget office score to show how much each member of congress has voted for and on what measures. We host the results on spendingtracker.org. To produce the latter, we contracted with designers and developers to produce and maintain a standalone site to show the results in real time.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $67k → $8k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SPENDING REFORM INC’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 SPENDING REFORM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 SPENDING REFORM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 65% · 2019 70% · 2020 54% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
74% of INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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.
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC: 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 SPENDING REFORM INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,050 to it, the largest being CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ($127,390). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $297,050 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC?
- CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $127,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR SPENDING REFORM INC 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 9 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