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INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE

INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,925,278 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,180,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$5.9M
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Inter-American Dialogue does

Mission

The Inter-American Dialogue brings together public and private leaders from across the americas to build cooperation among western hemisphere nations and advance a regional agenda of democratic governance, social equity, and economic growth.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education: the dialogue seeks to improve the quality of education in latin america by building on its convening power and the strong regional network of experts and leaders to advance evidence-informed education policies in latin america.

    $980,548 spent
    26% of program spending
  2. U.s. Policy: the dialogue's work (on u.s. Policy) includes a range of projects and events that focus on u.s. Policy toward latin america and the caribbean generally, and towards specific countries and issues. This includes the dialogue's programs on the andean region, brazil, mexico, cuba, and the nations of central america; on u.s.-latin american trade negotiations; on long-term global trends; and on the u.s. Participation in inter-american institutions.

    $532,456 spent
    14% of program spending
  3. Remittances and development: the dialogue studies remittance trends, financial access, and remittance transaction costs in migrant host and home countries in the western hemisphere and worldwide. Research and meetings also focus on how development policies affect migratory flows.

    $516,573 spent
    14% of program spending
  4. Asia and latin america: the dialogue engages and informs academics, policy-makers and private sector leaders on evolving themes in latin america's relations with asia. Our working group meetings, events and publications seek to address areas of critical interests and to identify shared priorities in latin american nations and their international partners.

    $430,620 spent
    11% of program spending
  5. Outreach and communications: all the dialogue programs communicate their analysis and recommendations to policy and media communities in the u.s. And latin america, and beyond through published reports and articles, public and private forums, press conferences, and briefings for policy officials. A centralized outreach function maintains ongoing communication with the dialogue's membership, the u.s. Congress, the media and other organizations involved in hemispheric issues.

    $398,840 spent
    10% of program spending
  6. Rule of law: the program was established in 2015 to honor peter d. Bell, a founding cochair of the dialogue's board of directors, with support of the ford foundation. The program aims to promote policy discussions around human rights, democratic institutions, government accountability, civil society engagement, and hemispheric cooperation.

    $349,357 spent
    9% of program spending
  7. Corporate programs: the dialogue's corporate program engages western hemisphere business and financial leaders in the dialogue's activities and captures the viewpoints of leading private sector executives in our events and publications. The corporate program provides information and analysis to member companies, and produces a series of newsletters on political and economic issues of interest to the corporate community.

    $339,989 spent$515,005 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  8. Energy and climate change: frames policy debates on investment and sustainable development of natural resources by providing balanced analysis and by convening policymakers, corporate leaders and experts. The program seeks to improve information and communication to help policymakers attract investment while addressing environmental, social and economic concerns. It also promotes dialogue among countries to enhance energy integration and improve access to clean, secure energy supplies.

    $216,118 spent
    6% of program spending
  9. Linowitz forum: the linowitz forum periodically assembles the dialogue's core membership to review and discuss the most important issues in hemispheric affairs. Their findings and recommendations are published and communicated to decision-makers and opinion leaders throughout the hemisphere.

    $38,719 spent
    1% of program spending

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,803,220.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2018 Revenue 106 ($4.6M) Expenses 101 ($4.3M) Net assets 98 ($6.4M)2019 Revenue 100 ($4.4M) Expenses 104 ($4.4M) Net assets 109 ($7.1M)2020 Revenue 84 ($3.7M) Expenses 90 ($3.9M) Net assets 114 ($7.5M)2021 Revenue 95 ($4.2M) Expenses 93 ($4.0M) Net assets 118 ($7.7M)2022 Revenue 76 ($3.3M) Expenses 97 ($4.1M) Net assets 88 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 89 ($3.9M) Expenses 96 ($4.1M) Net assets 94 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 86 ($3.8M) Expenses 104 ($4.4M) Net assets 91 ($5.9M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (104)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $9.3M to $11M (+13%).

$8.2M
$8.1M
$8.8M
$9.2M
$9.3M
$11M
$10.0M
$9.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 26% · 2019 20% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 21% · 2023 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$109k
’17
$324k
’18
−$61k
’19
−$194k
’20
$221k
’21
−$812k
’22
−$206k
’23
−$653k
’24
2.3
months of
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

Rebecca Bill Chavez

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2425192121221819
Joined·+2+1+5+1+4+2+3
No longer listed·1731362
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $295k → $816k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE’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

INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 53% · 2021 42% · 2022 53% · 2023 57% — 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

50% of INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.

NY
CA
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−17% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.

Federal$2.4M
grants $2.4Mcontracts $0
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18
Top agencies
  • Agency for International Development$2.4M

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE?
INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,925,278 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($2,180,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $5,925,278 in grants to INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing