Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,320,935 to it, the largest being Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc ($2,257,841). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Institute of World Politics does
Mission
The Institute of World Politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on knowledge and appreciation of the founding principles of the american political economy and the western moral tradition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The institute offers three m.a. Degrees in its master's degree program, eight certificates of graduate study, and a continuing education program, all with a professional curriculum covering the various elements of statecraft. This curriculum is based upon an interdisciplinary foundational course of study that includes relevant elements of comparitive political culture, western moral precepts, practical political economics, and a political and diplomatic history.
$5,339,366 spentof which $883,781 as grants$3,783,149 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe institute has a program of educational and occupational counseling for it's students from various people associated with the institute, including the faculty chairman, the admissions coordinator, and other faculty members. The institute assists its students with finding employment oppurtunities, particularly those in the foreign affairs and the national security fields.
$1,568,451 spent21% of program spendingThe library offers services to support the institute's curriculum and expand students' learning outside of the classroom by providing access to our print collections, electronic subscriptions, as well as access to partner libraries.
$406,040 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,313,857.
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 2024 to 2025, from $24M to $21M (−11%).
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 13% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
John Lovewell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $635k → $2.5M.
18 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 OF WORLD POLITICS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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 OF WORLD POLITICS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
32% 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 OF WORLD POLITICS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 32% · 2019 27% · 2020 18% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“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
54% of THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 OF WORLD POLITICS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 OF WORLD POLITICS's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $680k on record.
- Department of Education$680k
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 OF WORLD POLITICS
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: 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 OF WORLD POLITICS?
- THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,320,935 to it, the largest being Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc ($2,257,841). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $11,320,935 in grants to THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS?
- Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,257,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS 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 79 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