Center for Global Development
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. We focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions and corporations that can help them deliver greater progress.
Center for Global Development at a glance
In short: Center for Global Development gave $161K across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $81K), mostly in Massachusetts. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $161,000
- -43.0% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 2
- +100.0% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $80,500
- -71.5% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $80,500
- Total assets
- $78,134,298
- +18.7% vs 2024
- Primary geography
- Massachusetts (63% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.
Who Center for Global Development funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 2 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Idinsight ($101K). Together the top 2 received $161K.
Grant Size Distribution
7 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was in the $250–500K range: 3 grants of 7 (43%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.
Cities
How Center for Global Development gives
- Giving fell 86% from 2022 to 2025. Method
From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $161K (2025) to $3.5M (2021). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $161K.
Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Idinsight Cambridge, MA | Research Project | $101,000 |
| The Brookings Institution Washington, DC | Research Project | $60,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $78,134,298 | $27,852,688 | $19,209,499 | $161,000 | 2 | $1,515,044 |
| 2024 | $65,836,543 | $23,575,821 | $18,124,830 | $282,383 | 1 | $1,346,198 |
| 2023 | $60,279,029 | $15,676,977 | $21,030,372 | $1,368,295 | 2 | $1,100,604 |
| 2022 | $63,112,891 | $21,731,642 | $19,682,028 | $1,125,887 | 2 | $1,387,734 |
| 2021 | $65,777,264 | $14,319,773 | $19,976,033 | $3,459,422 | Total only | $1,215,926 |
| 2020 | $73,335,379 | $28,135,296 | $20,523,042 | $292,172 | 1 | $866,330 |
| 2019 | $65,162,640 | $15,110,548 | $20,324,850 | $847,899 | 2 | $2,029,307 |
"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
About Center for Global Development
Based on IRS filings
Center for Global Development is a public charity focused on Human Services, based in Washington, DC. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $78.1M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $161K. Net investment income was $1.5M.
Focus Areas
Leadership & Key People
Officers and directors from IRS filings
Center for Global Development is led by Rachel Glennerster, President on every filing since 2024; 8 of 29 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Rachel Glennerster
President
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$138K (2024) → $419K (2025)
Lawrence Summers
Chair
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kehinde Ajayi
Senior Fellow & Program Director
Director of Geip & Senior Fellow → Senior Fellow & Director, 2024
Senior Fellow & Director → Senior Fellow & Program Director, 2025
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$216K (2023) → $224K (2025)
Nancy Lee
Senior Policy Fellow & Program Director
Director of Sdfp & Senior Fellow → Senior Policy Fellow & Director, 2024
Senior Policy Fellow & Director → Senior Policy Fellow & Program Director, 2025
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$230K (2023) → $235K (2025)
Afsaneh Beschloss
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bobby J. Pittman
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Caroline Atkinson
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Donald Kaberuka
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Mary-Ann Etiebet
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Shubhi Rao
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tony Fratto
Director
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Amrita Ahuja
Director
On filings since 2020
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Judy Woodruff
Director
On filings since 2020
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Karen Spencer
Director
On filings since 2020
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Luis Alberto Moreno
Director
On filings since 2020
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
David Marchick
Director
On filings since 2022
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Debra Fine
Director
On filings since 2022
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bertrand Badre
Director
On filings since 2023
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Nancy Birdsall
Director
On filings since 2023
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Bob McCarthy
Director
On filings since 2024
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Brian Deese
Director
On filings since 2024
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Steve Isaacs
Director
On filings since 2024
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
David Bohigian
Director
New on the 2025 filing
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Charles Kenny
Senior Fellow
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$207K (2019) → $232K (2025)
Clemence Landers
Vice President & Senior Fellow
Vice President → Vice President & Senior Fellow, 2025
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$183K (2024) → $269K (2025)
Eeshani Kandpal
Senior Fellow
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$213K (2025)
Emma Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$217K (2025)
Markus Goldstein
Vice President & Senior Fellow
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$292K (2025)
Edward Scott
Chair Emeritus
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (35)
- Former: Ellen Mackenzie (2019–2024) — Chief Financial Officer
- Former: George W. Casey Jr. (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: John Lipsky (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Masood Ahmed (2019–2024) — President
- Former: Daleep Singh (2022–2024) — Director · Filing note: Began 11/2022
- Former: Mark Plant (2023–2024) — Interim President
- Former: Cindy Huang (2024) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Liliana Rojas Suarez (2024) — Senior Fellow
- Former: David F. Gordon (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Roberty McCarthy (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Smita Singh (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Stephen T. Isaacs (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Bradley Horwitz (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Kendra White (2022–2023) — Senior Dia & Secretary
- Former: Amanda Glassman--Coo Exec (2023) — Vice President & Senior Fellow
- Former: Javier Guzman Cruz (2023) — Director of Ghpp & Senior Fellow
- Former: Justin Sandefur (2023) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Amanda Glassman (2019–2022) — Executive Vice President
- Former: Robert Mosbacher Jr. (2019–2022) — Director · Filing note: Thru 422
- Former: Scott Morris (2019–2022) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Timothy D. Adams (2019–2022) — Director · Filing note: Thru 422
- Former: David Evans (2020–2022) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Emma Rojas-Suarez-Dir Of Latin (2022) — Am. Init. & Senior Fellow
- Former: Michael Clemens-Dir Migration (2022) — Displacement, Hum. Pol & Senior Fellow
- Former: Brad Horwitz (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Liliana Rojas-Suarez (2019–2021) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Michael Clemens (2020–2021) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Tim Adams (2021) — Director
- Former: Edward E. McNally (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Q. Munir Alam (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Toni G. Verstandig (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Luke Easley (2020) — Vice President of Operations
- Former: Alan Gelb (2019) — Senior Fellow
- Former: Thomas Gibian (2019) — Director
- Former: Vijaya Ramachandran (2019) — Senior Fellow
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $419K, to Rachel Glennerster (President). 8 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Center for Global Development
How much does Center for Global Development give each year?
Center for Global Development gave $161K across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $282K across 1 grant.
How large is Center for Global Development?
Center for Global Development reported $78.1M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $27.9M.
What is Center for Global Development?
Center for Global Development is a public charity focused on Human Services, based in Washington, DC. It holds $78.1M in total assets as of 2025.
Where does Center for Global Development operate?
Center for Global Development has awarded grants in District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Maryland.
What is Center for Global Development's EIN?
Center for Global Development's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 52-2351337. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS August 26, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS November 13, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS November 12, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS November 6, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS July 13, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS July 27, 2026)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS August 30, 2022)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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