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THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY
THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $180k
What The Institute on Science for Global Policy does
Mission
The Institute on Science for Global Policy (isgp) designs, organizes, and convenes conferences, programs, and related activities intended to significantly improve the accurate communication of credible scientific and technological ideas, evidence-based understanding, and recommendations to those governmental, private sector, and societal leaders responsible for shaping major domestic and international policies and to the public writ large.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The isgp organized, facilitated and moderated a program and conference on foresight from the covid-19 pandemic: science, policy, and communication (covid-spc). The conference was convened by the isgp using an internet platform across multiple time zones on february 27-march 1, 2023 (western hemisphere). Isgp staff interviewed more than 200 subject-matter experts and stakeholders worldwide to develop topics for the conference. A book, including the conference position papers, not-for-attribution debate summaries, evidence-based options, areas of consensus, and actionable next steps from the conference on foresight from the covid-19 pandemic: science, policy, and communication (covid-spc) was published (isbn: 978-1-7334375-3-0).
$921,126 spent100% of program spendingThe isgp organized, convened, and moderated a program and conference on global pathways to hydrogen energy futures (gphef) - japan. The conference was held on april 7, 8, and 9, 2023 (eastern hemisphere), in yokohama, japan, with some participants joining virtually. At the request of the japanese government, isgp staff briefed the g7 energy ministers in sapporo, japan concerning the outcomes of the gphef - japan program and conference. Isgp interviewed more than 300 subject-matter experts and stakeholders worldwide to develop topics for the conference. A book, including the conference position papers, not-for-attribution debate summaries, evidence-based options, overarching perspectives and priorities, areas of consensus, and actionable next steps from global pathways to hydrogen energy futures - japan, was published (isbn: 978-1- 7334375-5-4).
The isgp developed a program on global energing and persistent infectious diseases (gepid), interviewing subject-matter experts and stakeholders worldwide to develop programmatic topics and securing funding for program conferences from government, private sector, and public advocacy communities. The gepid program was envisioned to be convened in 2024 as two separate, but related, conferences: one in washington, d.c., u.s. At the johns hopkins bloomberg center, and the second in brussels, belgium, within nato headquarters.
Isgp continued to work on its biodefense biosecurity program.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $921,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $218k to $517k (+136%).
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.
42% of THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
George Atkinson
Exec dir/cha
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $60k → $70k.
From the IRS filings of THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY’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
THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2019 100% · 2021 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $109k on record.
- Department of State$109k
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 ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY?
- THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $150,000 in grants to THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY?
- THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE ON SCIENCE FOR GLOBAL POLICY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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