Center for Strategic & International Studies
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) is a highly successful non-partisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicating to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest security challenges.
“CSIS scholars,” notes this website, “bring their policy expertise, judgment, and robust networks to their research, analysis, and recommendations. We organize conferences, publish, lecture, and make media appearances that aim to increase the knowledge, awareness, and salience of policy issues with relevant stakeholders and the interested public.”
The Center has been widely credited as being one of the global go-to think tanks.
2018 Contributions Received
$40,290,620
2018 Program Revenue Received
$5,864,922
2018 Net Assets
$132,965,801
CSIS is focused on issues impacting global health, climate change, human rights, international development, energy and sustainability, economics, defense and security, cybersecurity and technology, and more.
2018 Salaries
$26,910,285 for 501 employees
(58% of funds raised annually)
2018 Non-Salary, Non-Grant Expenses
$18,931,184
(approximately 41% of funds raised annually)
Tax-exempt since 1987, CSIS is launching a new initiative to secure and even more research-driven future for the organization and its talented stable of scholars.
Current Board & Volunteers
40 Board Members – 38 Independent of the Organization
38 Volunteers
President & CEO
John J. Hamre (since 2000)
Previously U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
The obvious immediate challenge for CSIS:
To deepen their prospective donor pool to include more sophisticated giving that can better help sustain the organization in a volatile market.
Generosity Assessment: This charitable research mission of CSIS is solid with an impressive track record over the decades past. Their future ambitions as an organization are sound. We believe CSIS is a great candidate for support from:
Principal and More Major Sized Gifts
Program Related Investments
Social Impact Funds
Deeper Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnerships
For more information on the Center for Strategic & International Studies, or to make a donation please visit their web site at: