Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK
NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,520 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR CONSERVATION INNOVATION ($84,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkshared fundersportfolio match
- Altman Foundationshared funders
- Learning Policy Instituteportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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: 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK’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 SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK.
“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
NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Altman Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Learning Policy Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter G Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Child Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Telecom Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overdeck Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard W Goldman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cognizant US Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quadriviumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncta - the Internet & Television Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SeldinHaring-Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Science Foundation$50k
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 SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK?
- NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,520 to it, the largest being TRUST FOR CONSERVATION INNOVATION ($84,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $135,520 in grants to NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK?
- TRUST FOR CONSERVATION INNOVATION is the largest funder on record, with $84,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL SCIENCE POLICY NETWORK 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing