Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,829,884 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($3,885,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science 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.
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared funders
- Limestone Foundationportfolio match
- BPI Foundationportfolio 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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $480k → $2.5M.
12 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 38% · 2019 38% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 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 statesis 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 46 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Heising-Simons Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 151 organizations that share your funders
- Limestone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BPI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Security Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Securities Industry and Financial Markets Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center on Budget and Policy Prioritiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Motion Picture Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shared Ascent Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Policy Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 126 organizations that share your funders
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fundshared fundersCA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES 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.
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 JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC?
- JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,829,884 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($3,885,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $20,829,884 in grants to JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC?
- THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,885,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC 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 46funders 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