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PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC

PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183,680 to it, the largest being CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC ($183,680). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$184k
Net assets
$494k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Partnership for Economic Policy Inc does

Mission

Pep's core mission is to provide training and support to developing country researchers to produce reliable scientific evidence and inform relevant scientific debates about economic policy, poverty, gender, and sustainable development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2025, pep continued to demonstrate the value of southern leadership in generating and using evidence to address complex development challenges. As some research and capacity-building programmes commenced, and others advanced or concluded, we reaffirmed our long-standing commitment to strengthening southern research leadership and supporting evidence-informed policymaking.this commitment was reflected across priority themesincluding gender equality, youth employment, climate action, education, and healthwhere local research teams produced rigorous, policy-relevant evidence while engaging policymakers throughout the research process. In 2026, this work is evolving toward even closer collaboration with decision-makers. The ongoing programmes supported by the hewlett foundation for building sustainable and synergistic evidence-informed policymaking (eip) ecosystems in africa, demonstrate pep's new policy engagement approach. The project teams are working directly with government partners on policy questions defined by national priorities.youth employment was a central focus of pep's work in 2025, marked by the conclusion of what works for youth employment in africa, implemented in…

    $2,938,658 spentof which $1,768,761 as grants$38,832 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,938,658.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($450k)2019 Revenue 150 ($4.7M) Expenses 126 ($3.6M) Net assets 314 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 98 ($3.0M) Expenses 85 ($2.4M) Net assets 407 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 76 ($2.4M) Expenses 89 ($2.6M) Net assets 345 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 87 ($2.7M) Expenses 102 ($2.9M) Net assets 229 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 103 ($3.2M) Expenses 117 ($3.4M) Net assets 60 ($272k)2024 Revenue 161 ($5.0M) Expenses 169 ($4.9M) Net assets 85 ($382k)2025 Revenue 128 ($4.0M) Expenses 135 ($3.9M) Net assets 110 ($494k)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (135)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $3.2M (−37%).

$1.8M
$3.7M
$3.5M
$4.3M
$4.1M
$5.0M
$3.2M
$3.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 94% · 2019 84% · 2020 73% · 2021 65% · 2022 30% · 2023 34% · 2024 26% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,093 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$236k
’18
$1.1M
’19
$589k
’20
−$206k
’21
−$223k
’22
−$157k
’23
$132k
’24
$112k
’25
9.7
months of
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

Jane Mariara

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed88999101012
Joined·+0+5+1+0+5+1+2
No longer listed·0410410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC’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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve9.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC?
PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183,680 to it, the largest being CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC ($183,680). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $183,680 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC?
CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $183,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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