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HENRY L STIMSON CENTER

EIN 52-1640938 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$14,861,548
Expenses 2024
$13,743,006

Program services were 84.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q054
Classification
1000
Street
1211 CONNECTICUT AVE NW 8TH FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE STIMSON CENTER PROMOTES INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, SHARED PROSPERITY & JUSTICE THROUGH APPLIED RESEARCH AND INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS, DEEP ENGAGEMENT, AND POLICY INNOVATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • GRAND STRATEGY IN PIVOTAL PLACES: FOCUSES ON THE KEY PLAYERS IN GLOBAL PEACE, SECURITY, AND GREAT POWER COMPETITION. PROGRAMMATIC WORK EXAMINES HOW POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SECURITY DYNAMICS IN AREAS LIKE THE INDO-PACIFIC, LATIN AMERICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND NORTH AFRICA SHAPE INTERNATIONAL STABILITY. THE WORK AIMS TO REDUCE CONFLICT, STRENGTHEN COOPERATION, AND SUPPORT SECURITY IN THESE STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS THROUGH NEW DIALOGUE AND POLICY SOLUTIONS.

    Expenses $5,026,074 · Grants $72,924 · Revenue $2,144,620

  • PROMOTING SECURITY AND PROSPERITY: EXAMINES HOW CONVENTIONAL AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ECONOMIC STATECRAFT, AND SHIFTING GLOBAL POWER DYNAMICS SHAPE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY. PROGRAMMATIC WORK SPANS CRITICAL ISSUES LIKE EXPORT CONTROLS, THE INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE, SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY, DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, AND THE GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIESINCLUDING AI AND SEMICONDUCTORSALONGSIDE DETERRENCE, ARMS CONTROL, NON-PROLIFERATION, NUCLEAR RISK REDUCTION, AND THE EVOLVING ROLE OF ALLIANCES AND PARTNERSHIPS.

    Expenses $3,168,297 · Revenue $772,532

  • PROTECTING PEOPLE: EXPLORES HOW GOVERNANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INCLUSIVE INSTITUTIONS CAN UNDERPIN PEACE AND STABILITY. PROGRAMMATIC WORK EXAMINES CHALLENGES SUCH AS CONFLICT, PEACEKEEPING, AND THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN CRISIS SETTINGS, AS WELL AS THE MULTILATERAL AND REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND MECHANISMS DEVELOPED TO ADDRESS THOSE CHALLENGES. THROUGH RESEARCH AND ENGAGEMENT, THE PROGRAMMATIC WORK PROMOTES GOVERNANCE AND POLICIES THAT STRENGTHEN HUMAN SECURITY AT THE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS.

    Expenses $1,401,647 · Revenue $19,933

  • PRESERVING THE PLANET: EXPLORES THE LINKS BETWEEN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK, AND GLOBAL STABILITY. PROGRAMMATIC WORK FOCUSES ON HOW WATER, ENERGY, AND OTHER RESOURCE CHALLENGES EXACERBATE SECURITY CONCERNS, PARTICULARLY IN FRAGILE AND CONFLICT-PRONE REGIONS. THROUGH RESEARCH, DIALOGUE, AND POLICY ENGAGEMENT, THE PROGRAMMATIC WORK BUILDS PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO INCREASE RESILIENCE, REDUCE RISKS, AND SUPPORT A MORE SECURE FUTURE.

    Expenses $1,048,907 · Revenue $187,729

  • SPECIAL PROJECTS

    Expenses $911,187

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Susan Chodakewitz

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alice Maroni

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruce McConnell

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sir Michael Arthur

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Bellinger III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jeffrey Bialos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary McInnis Boies

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Herbert Hawk Carlisle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Desire Feuerle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Gallucci

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Francis Q Hoang

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Howard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Hurley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leslie Ireland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Irwin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suresh Katta

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sachiko Kuno

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kris Lin-Bronner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Monica Medina

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mara Motherway

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Nichols

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicole Piasecki

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jonathan Roberts

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah L Stimson-Karis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Norman Taplin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $14,861,548
    Expenses
    $13,743,006
    Contributions
    $11,589,970
    Grants paid
    $72,924
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,996,168
    Expenses
    $12,975,509
    Contributions
    $9,143,945
    Grants paid
    $375,350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,677,718
    Expenses
    $11,793,276
    Contributions
    $8,265,024
    Grants paid
    $225,179

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,547,018
    Expenses
    $10,717,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,355,197
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,377,285
    Expenses
    $9,914,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,749,516
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,290,898
    Expenses
    $9,411,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,044,584
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,565,252
    Expenses
    $7,162,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,853,418
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,882,059
    Expenses
    $5,878,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,463,722
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,125,342
    Expenses
    $5,082,926
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,500,075
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,676,347
    Expenses
    $4,864,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,346,073
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,700,677
    Expenses
    $6,128,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,632,846
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,896,195
    Expenses
    $5,986,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,979,758
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,081,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,409,353

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.