Curated playlist
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
- International Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentA bank that does not seek profit still earns money. The IBRD borrows cheaply on its top credit rating, then lends.
- Council on Foreign RelationsA Council on Foreign Relations member's unsigned 1947 article introduced "containment."
- Guttmacher InstituteThe Guttmacher Institute began inside Planned Parenthood, which once paid for all of it. It split off in 2007.
- World Bank GroupThe World Bank's first loan came with a quiet US ultimatum to France. Communist-linked ministers had to go first.
- American Political Science AssociationWoodrow Wilson led the American Political Science Association before he governed New Jersey.
- Freedom HouseFreedom House began in 1941 as a group of campaigns urging America to enter World War II.
- American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSeventy-eight people founded the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1848.
- American Geophysical UnionThe American Geophysical Union says its community includes 130,000 people, and its own website is careful to add that they are not all members. That small hedge says a lot about the organization. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that gathers…
- Center for Strategic and International StudiesIn 1986, Georgetown University cut every tie with the think tank it had chartered.
- National Geographic SocietyThirty-three explorers and scientists met at a Washington club in 1888 to found the National Geographic Society.
- Greenpeace USAIn 2025, a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace entities to pay $666.8 million. Greenpeace is appealing.
- Atlantic CouncilThe Atlantic Council began in 1961 with a handshake between two former American statesmen.
- Center for International PolicyThe Center for International Policy began in 1975 as a watchdog on U.S. foreign policy after Vietnam.
- National Security ArchiveA small nonprofit sued the White House over email and won. The National Security Archive saved over a billion messages.
- The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security StudiesThe Arctic Institute has made a top 100 list of U.S. think tanks every year since 2016.