Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS
INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,083,178 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($1,528,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,604 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,604 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio match
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairsportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 72% · 2018 68% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 77% · 2022 73% · 2023 41% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $176k → $483k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 STATE EFFECTIVENESS’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 STATE EFFECTIVENESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 52% · 2022 46% · 2023 48% — 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
60% of INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 STATE EFFECTIVENESS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- International Sustainable Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Counterpart International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eurasia Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting-Usportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Nations Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Citycounty Management Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and the Rule of Lawportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Resources Instituteportfolio 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.
Government funding INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $607k on record.
- Department of State$607k
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 STATE EFFECTIVENESS
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
80% 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 INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS: 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 INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS?
- INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,083,178 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($1,528,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $5,083,178 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS?
- ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,528,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12funders 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