Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $270 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($270). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $270
- Net assets
- $722k
What Thomas Jefferson Institute for the Study of World Politics does
Mission
The Jefferson Institute is an independent research and education institute. We create and deploy digital tools and integrate them with research and education systems to transform society by empowering engaged access to information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
491 - STEELRx Enhancing training and education by iteratively testing the Synthetic Training Environment Experiential Learning for Readiness system within a series of multinational joint training exercises. The experiments are expected to improve learning outcomes increase learning efficiency and expand readiness reporting via learning analytics and their visualizations in the exercises.
$277,083 spent62% of program spending481 - OSD Advisory Supporting US participation in multiple Advanced Distributed Learning communities of allies and partners including the Learning Technology Global Partnership the NATO Learning Technology Interoperability Group and the Partnership for Peace Consortium Advanced Distributed Learning Work Group.
$34,111 spent8% of program spending492- America Builders This project provides an engaging educational platform where students interact with historical figures from the U.S. Revolutionary era. It also equips teachers with powerful analytics and assessment tools to enhance learning outcomes and streamline classroom management.
$135,880 spent30% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $447,074.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+36%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 99% · 2019 67% · 2020 75% · 2021 54% · 2022 143% · 2023 54% · 2024 75% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Vasil Hudak
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $69 → $55.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Defense$3.4M
- National Science Foundation$40k
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY 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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS?
- THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $270 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($270). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $270 in grants to THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD POLITICS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY 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 1 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