New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,120 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($110,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $291k
- Net assets
- $112k
What National Institute of Social Sciences does
Mission
The National Institute of Social Sciences is an organization whose purpose is to foster research and interest in issues relating to the social sciences by sponsoring forums and events to that end, and by recognizing individuals who have advanced society and the social sciences by rendering distinguished service to the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In continuing fulfillment of our original charter, a gold medal dinner was held to honor individuals who have rendered distinguished service to humanity. Several forums with guest speakers were held during the year to examine and discuss various social scientific issues.
$31,715 spent$8,807 earned by the program53% of program spendingThrough its grant programs, the organization provided assistance to doctoral research of young social scientists and a grant to an organization.
$28,300 spentof which $28,300 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,015.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $90k to $135k (+50%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $87k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES’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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 79% · 2019 51% · 2020 62% · 2021 70% · 2022 74% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
60% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES'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 $117k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES: 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 INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,120 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($110,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $291,120 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 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 18 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