Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Voice Inc ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $290k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $663k
What Niskanen Center for Public Policy does
Mission
To promote social welfare including but not limited to (1) developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, and government programs to improve the environment, protect natural resources, and stimulate the economy and (2) conducting research and publicizing the positions of elected officials concerning these issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Niskanen Center for Public Policy (ncpp) is a nonpartisan nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that recognizes the pressing need to educate the public on innovative public policy solutions to meet the demands of 21st-century society. Ncpp promotes center-right policies including issues ranging from immigration and refugee reform to defense policy, poverty and welfare to healthcare policy, and climate action to the defense of the norms and institutions at the heart of a well-functioning liberal democracy. Ncpp engages in targeted grassroots and direct advocacy campaigns in support of sound policy, including those developed by its sister organization, the niskanen center, and like-minded organizations.
$80,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $80,000.
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 $581k to $1.8M (+205%).
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 NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY’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 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $175k → $150k.
From the IRS filings of NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY’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
NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Niskanen Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: 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 NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
- NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,300,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Voice Inc ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,300,000 in grants to NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
- Democracy Fund Voice Inc is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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