Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,371,448 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($6,430,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Migration Policy Institute does
Mission
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The u.s. Immigration policy program analyzes u.s. Policies and their impacts, as well as the complex demographic, economic, political, foreign policy, and other forces that shape immigration to the united states. The program also offers influential thought leadership and policy recommendations regarding ways to improve the u.s. Immigration system so that it works most effectively in the national interest.the national center on immigrant integration policy is a crossroads for elected officials, researchers, state and local agency managers, grassroots leaders, service providers, and others who seek to understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities today's high rates of immigration create in local communities.mpi's international program conducts research and analysis to develop innovative, evidence-based, and politically feasible solutions to worldwide migration policy challenges.
$5,343,296 spentof which $213,582 as grants$390,254 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,343,296.
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 $8.2M to $12M (+46%).
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 10% · 2018 6% · 2019 2% · 2020 11% · 2021 7% · 2022 10% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Roberta S Jacobson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.7M.
16 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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 39% · 2018 25% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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
40% of MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M 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
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: 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 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE?
- MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,371,448 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($6,430,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $34,371,448 in grants to MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $6,430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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