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The Business Roundtable Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 23-7236607. Reported 142 grants totalling $9,298,048 to 65 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Business Roundtable Inc, the IRS classifies it under employment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE J99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 61% 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $515,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Action Network Inc | Washington, DC | $1,200,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tax Foundation | Washington, DC | $942,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Advertising Council Inc | New York, NY | $515,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Association of Wholesalers Distributors Inc | Washington, DC | $515,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Business Roundtable Action | Washington, DC | $508,765 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Farmers for Free Trade | Sheridan, WY | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | Washington, DC | $425,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Americans for Tax Reform | Washington, DC | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Taxpayers Union | Washington, DC | $330,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for New American Security Inc | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc | Washington, DC | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | Washington, DC | $270,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Third Way | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Action Forum Inc | Washington, DC | $190,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center Forward | Mclean, VA | $160,853 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ripon Society Inc | Washington, DC | $157,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Accelertor for America Action | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Governing Majority Education Fund | Tampa, FL | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Congressional Institute Inc | Alexandria, VA | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Republican Main Street Partnership | Washington, DC | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Burning Glass Institute | Bala Cynwyd, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Climate Solutions Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Conservative Climate Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Senate Working Group Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Faith and Politics Institute | Washington, DC | $87,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington International Trade Foundation | Washington, DC | $82,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Shrm Foundation Inc | Alexandria, VA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Reforming Americas Taxes Equitably | Lubbock, TX | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Democracy and Technology | Washington, DC | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congressional Black Caucus Politica L Education & Leadership Institute | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Global Womens Innovation Network | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Association of Manufacturers of the USA | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Immigration Forum Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| State Solutions Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Third Way Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United for Infrastructure | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hortons Kids Inc | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | Boston, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Center Foundation | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Fund for American Studies | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Niskanen Center Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Innovative Policy | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Republican Governors Public Policy Committee | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Tuberous Sclerosis Association Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trust for the National Mall | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts Inc | Washington, DC | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Press Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $15,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Congressional Sports for Charity | Alexandria, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Better Chance Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Conference of State Societies Washington District of C | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Council for Behavioral Health | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Energy Resources Organization Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Former Members of Congress Inc | Washington, DC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| White House Historical Association | Washington, DC | $7,730 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
40 of 65 (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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 65 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $3,009,229 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $1,405,352 | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 38 | $2,302,182 | $27,450 |
| 2024 | 44 | $2,581,285 | $41,750 |
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
80% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- 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 The Business Roundtable Inc'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 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 17 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: 1000 Maine Ave Sw 500, Washington, DC, 20024.
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