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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.
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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $46.5M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Path Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $11.8M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Medical Care Development Incorporated | Hallowell, ME | $9,417,223 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Health International | Durham, NC | $8,136,810 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Management Sciences for Health Inc | Medford, MA | $6,594,181 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | New York, NY | $4,859,472 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $3,140,356 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Msi US | Washington, DC | $2,234,133 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Concern Worldwide U S Inc | New York, NY | $1,834,095 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | Atlanta, GA | $1,684,861 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc | Boston, MA | $1,626,666 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Malaria Consortium US Inc | Hermitage, PA | $1,601,571 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partners in Compassion Inc | Hackettstown, NJ | $1,564,820 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Plan International USA Inc | Providence, RI | $1,427,079 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Relief Services | Baltimore, MD | $1,292,599 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ideo Org | San Francisco, CA | $1,133,535 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| White Ribbon Alliance Inc (wra) | Washington, DC | $935,177 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Banyan Global | Washington, DC | $750,627 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fondation Pour La Sante Reproductrice Et Leducation | Haiti | $555,792 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Athena Infonomics LLC | Bethesda, MD | $533,397 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Health Systems Insight | Washington, DC | $441,259 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Population Media Center Inc | S Burlington, VT | $399,891 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Health Through Walls Inc | North Miami, FL | $380,867 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thinkwell | Washington, DC | $358,916 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Avenir Health Inc | Glastonbury, CT | $358,414 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Access Health International Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $348,262 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Devworks International Inc | Bethesda, MD | $326,576 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Population Council Inc | New York, NY | $312,965 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brac USA Inc | New York, NY | $309,319 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pact Inc | Washington, DC | $242,657 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Professional Development | West Columbia, SC | $229,964 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metrics for Management | Berkeley, CA | $179,026 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Planet Partnerships LLC | Washington, DC | $176,220 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Akros Inc | Missoula, MT | $156,026 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dkt International Inc | Washington, DC | $116,051 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Results for Development Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $95,317 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Health Partners Inc | Rio Vista, CA | $91,204 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glasswing International USA Inc | New York, NY | $54,583 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Support | Dothan, AL | $50,687 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
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.
- Jhpiego Corporation
HIV/AIDS/TB, Malaria, Sexual Reproduction Health & Rights - Path
HIV/AIDS Program, Hepatitis C, Family Planning and Health Services, Non-Communicable Diseases - Fhi 360
Gender Based Programs, WASH, Family Planning and Health Services - Management Sciences for Health Inc (msh)
Family Planning/Reproductuve Health, Malaria, Maternal and Child Health - International Rescue Committee
Family Planning and Health Services - Thinkwell Institute
Sexual Reproduction Health & Rights
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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $31.5M | $442,874 |
| 2022 | 23 | $30.6M | $331,006 |
| 2023 | 22 | $28.4M | $284,299 |
| 2024 | 18 | $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.
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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 $359,347 -- 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 Maryland.
- 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.
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