New York · Nonprofit
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 315 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,764,455 to it, the largest being THE PAUL E SINGER FOUNDATION ($9,435,000). 217 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 315
- Grants received
- $95M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc does
Mission
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research, other, and publications - this program's objective is to support and publish the work of mi scholars who are not part of another policy center. It also coordinates the work of staff and scholars in the other substantive policy centers.
$14,039,797 spent$91,410 earned by the program65% of program spendingCity journal - quarterly magazine devoted to identifying practical solutions to social and economic problems in the inner cities; approximately 7,500 distributed copies per quarter.
$4,686,224 spent22% of program spendingConferences and seminars - the seminars & conferences program hosts public, educational forums and lectures on topics related to the institute's policy research areas.
$2,002,861 spent9% of program spendingThe adam smith society - we host events with thought leaders from industry, academia, and the policy world for talks and debates that unpack key policy challenges facing the business community and our country at large. Our events examine questions like: - how do we train the american workforce for jobs of the future? - does the free market promote inequality or opportunity, or both? - ought firms prioritize social and environmental goals? - how does capitalism affect the least privileged? - is big tech a problem for our democracy, and if so, should it be regulated?
$815,812 spentof which $18,396 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,544,694.
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 2022 to 2023, from $26M to $41M (+58%).
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.
94% of MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Paul Singer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 140 funders, grant income rose $7.4M → $17M.
40 of 315 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 315 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
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
28% 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 MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 13% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% — 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
52% of MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC?
- MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 315 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,764,455 to it, the largest being THE PAUL E SINGER FOUNDATION ($9,435,000). 217 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 315 organizations giving $94,764,455 in grants to MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC, 217 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC?
- THE PAUL E SINGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 315 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing