Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,681,600 to it, the largest being CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING ($471,315,489). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $694M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What National Democratic Institute for International Affairs does
Mission
Ndi strives for a world where people have a say in how they're governed and where leaders are accountable totheir people - creating a more stable, peaceful and prosperous world for everyone.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ndi is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose work over four decades has helped thousands of local partners and tens of millions of people live in greater freedom, with governments that are more responsive and accountable to their people. Ndi provides guidance, collaboration, tools, and training proven to be effective in:- empowering people to have a say in how they're governed- making democracy work by helping political parties, governments and elected officials be more responsive, accountable and effective in meeting the needs of their people- strengthening democratic societies by supporting freedom's advocates and pushing back on forces that seek to undermine freedom around the world.
$92,296,716 spentof which $14,717,068 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $92,296,716.
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 $42M to $85M (+103%).
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 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (98% 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.
Board chair
Thomas A Daschle
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $57M → $98M.
12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 62% · 2019 72% · 2020 88% · 2021 71% · 2022 65% · 2023 65% — broadly stable.
“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
54% of NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
99% of NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS is better cushioned than half of the 53 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 53 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $127.7M on record.
- Agency for International Development$113.2M
- Department of State$14.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Asociacion Instituto Nacional Democrata Para Asuntos Internacionales Guatem · disregarded
- Association of Ndi-Dharamshala · disregarded
- Institutul National Democrat Romania · disregarded
- N D I Hungary Nonprofit Kft · disregarded
- National Democratic Institute (Sri Lanka) · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: 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 NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS?
- NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,681,600 to it, the largest being CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING ($471,315,489). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $693,681,600 in grants to NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS?
- CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING is the largest funder on record, with $471,315,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 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 45 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