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YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,278,097 to it, the largest being Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc ($1,125,756). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$6.3M
Net assets
$1.9M
35/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Yankee Institute for Public Policy does

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to educate the general public about the efficiency of services provided by government through government public policy.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education and public awareness of public policies that promote efficiency in government through public speaking, educational events, newspaper op-eds, tv, radio, newsletters and the internet.

    $1,995,172 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,995,172.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($426k)2018 Revenue 152 ($2.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.6M) Net assets 273 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 154 ($2.3M) Expenses 108 ($1.6M) Net assets 439 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 120 ($1.8M) Expenses 85 ($1.3M) Net assets 566 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 153 ($2.3M) Expenses 97 ($1.4M) Net assets 756 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 109 ($1.6M) Expenses 133 ($2.0M) Net assets 675 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 145 ($2.2M) Expenses 171 ($2.5M) Net assets 587 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 132 ($2.0M) Expenses 173 ($2.6M) Net assets 448 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (173)Net assets (448)

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 $2.4M to $3.2M (+33%).

$426k
$1.2M
$1.9M
$2.4M
$3.2M
$2.9M
$2.6M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$721k
’18
$709k
’19
$538k
’20
$851k
’21
−$336k
’22
−$372k
’23
−$593k
’24
9.2
months of
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

Ken Boudreau

Director/chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+1+3+2+3+0
No longer listed·0100211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $467k → $992k.

10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

55% 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 YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY.

18%
largest funder
52%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 57% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 40% — 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

58% of YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 17 states in all.

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
SC
OK
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 14%Fundraising 8%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Yankee Charitable Foundation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: 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 YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,278,097 to it, the largest being Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc ($1,125,756). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $6,278,097 in grants to YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
Robert and Ardis James Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing