Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,598,438 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($4,950,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $63M
What International Crisis Group does
Mission
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. To this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide expert, independent field-centered research, analysis and policy engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Africa central africa: crisis group's nairobi-based team monitors and reports on the fragile security situation in the central african republic as well as the stalemated transition in chad. The team also reports on the conflict in cameroon's anglophone region. Great lakes: crisis group's great lakes project tracks the multiple security and political challenges in the democratic republic of congo and reports on wider tensions within and among its key neighbours, burundi, uganda and rwanda.west africa: crisis group's west africa project covers nigeria and examines political issues of succession, democracy and risks to the country's stability as a whole, including boko haram and niger delta militancy. Dakar-based analysts also watch events closely in cote d'ivoire and monitor guinea, guinea-bissau, liberia and sierra leone. Sahel: crisis group's dakar based analysts focus on the crisis engulfing parts of mali, niger, burkina faso, togo and benin.horn of africa: crisis group's region-based analysts focus on conflicts and crises in sudan and south sudan as well as tensions between the two countries. The project covers ethiopia's complex internal conflicts and monitors eritrea.east and…
$4,020,824 spent20% of program spendingAdvocacy:crisis group's advocacy engages the entire organization, reflecting our cumulative understanding of how best to tailor and target our messages to the unique policy context of various local, regional and international actors. While crisis group's advocacy efforts are customised to address each particular conflict scenario, they consistently influence an array of actors/decision-makers in the country in question, those to whom they listen, and the spectrum of influential international players or stakeholders.
$3,192,153 spent16% of program spendingMiddle east and north africa:israel/palestine: crisis group analysts in the region monitor developments in israel and palestine, focusing on the state of the 'peace process', points of tension and de-escalation strategies.iraq/syria/lebanon: crisis group covers the war in syria, internal developments in lebanon and relations between syria and lebanon. It also covers governance and security in iraq, as well as the question of the kurds in iraq and syria.iran/gulf states/yemen: crisis group covers efforts to restore the nuclear deal between the p5+1 and iran, and iran's role in the region. It also covers yemen, focusing on the war and exploring ways to bring it to an end and the foreign policies of other gulf countriesnorth africa: crisis group reports on the transitions in egypt, libya, tunisia, and algeria.
$3,127,175 spent16% of program spendingPolicy management and research
$2,673,035 spent13% of program spendingAsia:north east asia: crisis group examines china's approach to regional and international conflicts, its global influence, including in africa, and its activities relating to north korea, taiwan and the south and east china seas. South east asia: analysts focus on thailand's southern insurgency and domestic political turmoil, the transition in myanmar, the rohingya crisis, and the peace process and militancy more broadly in the philippines.south asia: crisis group analyses the security and political transition in afghanistan, governance, militancy and sectarian violence in pakistan, and the risks posed by the legacy of sri lanka's civil conflict as well as by authoritarianism and the economy's collapse.
$1,734,902 spent9% of program spendingLatin america program
$1,392,686 spent7% of program spendingEurope and central asia program
$1,474,599 spent7% of program spendingFuture of conflict
$1,349,491 spent7% of program spendingUnited states program
$888,210 spent4% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,853,075.
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 2021 to 2022, from $54M to $68M (+27%).
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 45% · 2018 55% · 2019 43% · 2020 64% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 58% · 2024 61% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Comfort Ero
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.7M.
13 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 30% · 2021 39% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — 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
53% of INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 174 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: 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 INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP?
- INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,598,438 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($4,950,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $21,598,438 in grants to INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $4,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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