GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Population Services International

Washington, DC · EIN 56-0942853. Reported 89 grants totalling $112.3M to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$359,347median reported grant
$112.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
68%of grantees funded again the next year
41%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 41% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $359,347. Half of what it reported fell between $165,904 and $1,159,113; the smallest was $26,753 and the largest $15.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
25 grants
$250,000 Or More
53 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$46.5M442024
Path IncPhiladelphia, PA$11.8M442024
Medical Care Development IncorporatedHallowell, ME$9,417,223442024
Family Health InternationalDurham, NC$8,136,810442024
Management Sciences for Health IncMedford, MA$6,594,181442024
International Rescue Committee IncNew York, NY$4,859,472442024
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$3,140,356442024
Msi USWashington, DC$2,234,133222024
Concern Worldwide U S IncNew York, NY$1,834,095222024
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere IncAtlanta, GA$1,684,861112024
Clinton Health Access Initiative IncBoston, MA$1,626,666442024
Malaria Consortium US IncHermitage, PA$1,601,571112021
Partners in Compassion IncHackettstown, NJ$1,564,820542024
Plan International USA IncProvidence, RI$1,427,079332023
Catholic Relief ServicesBaltimore, MD$1,292,599112021
Ideo OrgSan Francisco, CA$1,133,535222022
White Ribbon Alliance Inc (wra)Washington, DC$935,177442024
Banyan GlobalWashington, DC$750,627222022
Fondation Pour La Sante Reproductrice Et LeducationHaiti$555,792112021
Athena Infonomics LLCBethesda, MD$533,397222024
Health Systems InsightWashington, DC$441,259222024
Population Media Center IncS Burlington, VT$399,891222023
Health Through Walls IncNorth Miami, FL$380,867112021
ThinkwellWashington, DC$358,916222022
Avenir Health IncGlastonbury, CT$358,414442024
Access Health International IncRidgefield, CT$348,262222023
Devworks International IncBethesda, MD$326,576112021
Population Council IncNew York, NY$312,965222023
Brac USA IncNew York, NY$309,319332023
Pact IncWashington, DC$242,657332023
Foundation for Professional DevelopmentWest Columbia, SC$229,964112022
Metrics for ManagementBerkeley, CA$179,026112023
Planet Partnerships LLCWashington, DC$176,220112024
Akros IncMissoula, MT$156,026112021
Dkt International IncWashington, DC$116,051112024
Results for Development Institute IncWashington, DC$95,317112022
World Health Partners IncRio Vista, CA$91,204112022
Glasswing International USA IncNew York, NY$54,583112021
Family SupportDothan, AL$50,687112021

24 of 39 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

International Affairs
16 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202126$31.5M$442,874
202223$30.6M$331,006
202322$28.4M$284,299
202418$21.7M$502,233

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

44% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Maryland
$48.7M
Pennsylvania
$13.4M
Maine
$9.4M
Massachusetts
$8.2M
North Carolina
$8.1M
New York
$7.4M
District of Columbia
$5.4M
California
$4.5M

Down to the city

Baltimore, MD
$47.8M
Philadelphia, PA
$11.8M
Hallowell, ME
$9.4M
Durham, NC
$8.1M
New York, NY
$7.4M
Medford, MA
$6.6M

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsGates Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $359,347 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Population Services International's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1120 19TH St Nw 600, Washington, DC, 20036.

EIN 56-0942853 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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