Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,573,992 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($11,931,072). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What The Council on Strategic Risks does
Mission
The organization is devoted to anticipating, analyzing and addressing core systemic risks to security in the 21st century, with special examination of the ways in which these risks intersect and exacerbate one another. See schedule o for further explanation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center for climate and security ("ccs") - ccs is a non-partisan institute of csr with a team and distinguished advisory board of security and military experts. Ccs envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are significant and unprecedented, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability. To further this goal, ccs facilitates policy development processes and dialogues, provides analysis, conducts research, communicates to the public, and acts as a resource hub in the climate and security field. For more, visit the ccs website.
$1,504,622 spent33% of program spendingThe janne e. Nolan center on strategic weapons ("csw") - csw is a non-partisan institute of csr that explores threat reduction opportunities related to the development, diffusion and use of strategic weapons in a challenging security landscape. A team of experts launched csw with a recognition that nuclear, biological, chemical and other strategic weapons threats are rising both due to direct changes in policies and practices globally, and as a result of increasing stress on international security institutions and norms. As strategic weapons threats rise, csw is committed to developing achievable risk-reducing solutions.
$2,773,979 spent61% of program spendingThe converging risks lab ("crl") - crl is a research and policy development-oriented program designed to study converging, cross-sectoral risks in a rapidly-changing world. The crl will bring together experts from within the csr's distinct institutes, and from multiple sectors of the security community, to ask forward-thinking questions about these converging risks, and to develop anticipatory solutions. The lab currently includes the climate-nuclear-security project.
$243,363 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,521,964.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.4M (+55%).
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.
98% of THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Christine Parthemore
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Hon Sherri Goodman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $460k → $1.7M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2019 43% · 2020 68% · 2021 23% · 2022 50% · 2023 24% — 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
25% of THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
61% of THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS'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 $8.1M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS?
- THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,573,992 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($11,931,072). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $20,573,992 in grants to THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,931,072 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38 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