Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,190,963 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($9,490,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $104M
What Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics does
Mission
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical policy solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: the institute's research team provided objective analysis and practical public policy recommendations on topics including international trade, investments, finance and tax policy; macroeconomics; globalization and human welfare; climate change; cybersecurity; economic sanctions; economic nationalism; global supply chains; monetary and fiscal policy; critical minerals; the economic ramifications of international conflicts; the economic implications of technological advances, especially in artificial intelligence; and economic issues in the united states specifically related to china, european union, india, japan, korea, latin america, the middle east north africa (mena), russia, the united kingdom, and the united states-mexico-canada trading bloc.
$7,325,378 spent62% of program spendingOutreach: the institute hosted numerous public events, in-person and online, in washington, d.c. And around the world, to share our research and invite discussion. We hold these sessions to inform a broad range of interested parties and encourage vigorous debate and exchange of different points of views to enrich the broader population's understanding of complex issues. Participants included piie scholars and outside experts from academia, think tanks, embassies, government, and organizations including the international monetary fund, the world bank, the world trade organization, the bank for international settlements, the council on foreign relations, and the world economic forum. The audience for these events came, similarly, from academia, business, government, international organizations, and the media.
$2,511,174 spent21% of program spendingPublications: to share the institute's research with the widest possible audience, piie published our work on our website in various formats, including research papers, charts, blogposts, podcasts, and video interviews, all available to the public. We distributed the work further through our weekly email newsletter and on social media. We recorded millions of piie.com web views and more than 100,000 followers of our various social media accounts. Institute scholars also wrote opinion articles for outside publications, gave speeches to various gatherings, and provided expert testimony at the invitation of us and other government offices. Piie experts gave numerous interviews to journalists and were cited by major us and international media, as well as by regional and local american news outlets. Our scholars shared their findings with the public via television, radio, online, telephone, email, in print, and via newswire services.
$1,282,647 spent11% of program spendingCommunications: the institute creates audiovisual materials, interactive graphics, email newsletters, educational materials, and social media content to deepen the public's and policymakers' understanding of the international economic issues discussed.
$699,077 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,818,276.
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 2020 to 2021, from $91M to $105M (+15%).
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.
92% of PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 13 funders, grant income rose $310k → $1.9M.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS’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
PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 83% · 2019 55% · 2020 24% · 2021 64% · 2022 66% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 25 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 25 social science nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Iie Property Associates LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS?
- PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,190,963 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($9,490,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $18,190,963 in grants to PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS?
- PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,490,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETER G PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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