Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NEW CONSENSUS
NEW CONSENSUS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,264,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $492k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $178k
What New Consensus does
Mission
New Consensus is a new kind of public education and research organization whose mission is to educate policy makers and leaders about issues and craft comprehensive policy solutions to meet americas economic challenges.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
New Consensus developed and advanced in-depth policy proposals to support u.s. Economic development and transformation, with a primary focus in 2024 on the development of mission for america, a comprehensive policy framework for building a cleaner, more productive, and more equitable u.s. Economy. The organization convened and coordinated a broad coalition of climate experts, economists, business and labor leaders, policymakers, and other subject-matter experts to refine and advance these proposals, and produced research and educational materials to build public understanding and support for a new, pro-prosperity economic consensus.
$399,437 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $399,437.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $562k (−53%).
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.
100% of NEW CONSENSUS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Zack Exley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.1M.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 NEW CONSENSUS’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
NEW CONSENSUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 NEW CONSENSUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 51% · 2020 100% · 2022 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of NEW CONSENSUS'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NEW CONSENSUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEW CONSENSUS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW CONSENSUS: 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 NEW CONSENSUS?
- NEW CONSENSUS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,264,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW CONSENSUS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $4,264,500 in grants to NEW CONSENSUS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW CONSENSUS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW CONSENSUS 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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