Virginia · Nonprofit
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,577,792 to it, the largest being BETH AND RAVENEL CURRY FOUNDATION ($740,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The Institute for Family Studies does
Mission
See schedule osponsor research and programs that monitor the health of marriage and family life in the united states and around the world, that analyze the social and cultural forces shaping contemporary marriage and family life in the u.s. And around the globe, and that identify strategies to increase the quality and stability of marriage and family life in the u.s. And around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Get Married Initiative (GMI) GMI publishes original social science research and analysis on the state of marriage and how the family impacts individual and societal wellbeing. GMI produces research reports and briefs and provides expert commentary across a variety of live settings in media and legislatures.
$587,551 spent$20,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingFamily First Technology Initiative (FFTI) FFTI produces original research and policy analysis on the impact of technology, social media, and artificial intelligence on family life in general and children in particular. FFTI drafts model legislation and is a leading public voice examining and evaluating tech regulation and debates across the country. Our research and analysis have shaped more than a dozen state laws concerning online child safety and FFTI fellows are featured regularly in media and appear in person as experts on these issues.
$471,019 spent$40,000 earned by the program28% of program spendingPublic Engagement Initiative IFS reaches the general public with research and analysis through its website, earned media placements, and social media channels. During the fiscal year, our research and fellows were cited or featured in over 1,000 outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, the Financial Times, Fox News, NPR, and TIME. Website traffic doubled year over year. Fellows contributed commentary such as op-eds to national publications and testified before state legislatures on marriage, family formation, young adult success, and technology policy.
$338,984 spent20% of program spendingPronatalism Initiative (PI) PI conducts original research as well as rigorous analysis of existing data to understand fertility trends and the causes of domestic and international below-replacement birth rates. Central to the initiative's goals is explaining the social and economic consequences of population decline. The research has direct application for policy makers and has impact through regular media and press coverage educating the general public on the importance of fertility rates.
$315,020 spent$32,500 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,712,574.
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 2021 to 2022, from $802k to $1.1M (+40%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Richard R Hough III
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $204k → $982k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 55% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — 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
76% of THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
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 THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES?
- THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,577,792 to it, the largest being BETH AND RAVENEL CURRY FOUNDATION ($740,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,577,792 in grants to THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES?
- BETH AND RAVENEL CURRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY 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.
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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 32 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