Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,217,671 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($50,543,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $88M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Kyiv School of Economics does
Mission
Kyiv School of Economics forges links between economics, academics and government deicision makers to strengthen and develop sound economic policy in Ukraine and all areas of FSU. Provide Citize of Ukraine chartitable aid and assistance to overcome ravages of war in Ukraine.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide charitable aid and assistance to the citizens, organizations and students of Ukraine, to overcome the ravages of war and to provide for their general humanitarian needs.
$23,200,340 spentof which $21,047,967 as grants86% of program spendingEnglish language bachelor and masters program in economics, public policy, it, math, management and engineering.
$3,333,132 spentof which $1,300,014 as grants$1,302,410 earned by the program12% of program spendingEconomic and Social research on various subject.
$396,364 spentof which $135,066 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,929,836.
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 2023 to 2024, from $34M to $55M (+60%).
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.
90% of KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
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
Michael Shneider
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $25k → $23M.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS’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
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Kse Charitable Foundation · disregarded
- Kyiv Schoool of Economics Universit · disregarded
- Brologistik LLC · disregarded
- Kyiv School of Economics in Riga · disregarded
- LLC KSE Engineering · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS?
- KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,217,671 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($50,543,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $88,217,671 in grants to KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $50,543,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 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.
Play a game about who funds Kyiv School of Economics →
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 22 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