Foreign Policy magazine includes the EastWest Institute in its annual ranking of the top 30 U.S. think tanks, listing it as number 21. EWI’s 2008 budget of $9.2 million is smaller than many of the think tanks listed higher. By comparison, the Brookings Institution has a budget of $60.7 million and the Council on Foreign Relations $38.3 million. The report notes that the number of think tanks in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1980, and the total now stands at 1,777.