Virginia · Nonprofit
POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $-24,000 to it, the largest being CHARLES E AND CHARLOTTE T CURRY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 104% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Charles Koch Institutelocalportfolio match
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedlocalportfolio match
- Washington Forrest Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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.
0% of POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 104% 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 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state 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.
- Charles Koch Institutelocalportfolio matchVA · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Forrest Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- Mywirelessorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Constitutional Governmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Policy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NetChoiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter G Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Searle Freedom Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colombe Peace 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 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59.3M on record.
- Department of Defense$49.5M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$9.5M
- Department of Homeland Security$250k
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 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: 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 POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES?
- POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $-24,000 to it, the largest being CHARLES E AND CHARLOTTE T CURRY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 104% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $-24,000 in grants to POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES.
- Who is the largest funder of POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES?
- CHARLES E AND CHARLOTTE T CURRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POTOMAC INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2funders 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