· Public charity
826 National Inc
826 is the largest youth writing network in the country.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 826 DC | $69,000 |
| 826 MSP | $69,000 |
| 826 New Orleans | $69,000 |
| 826 NYC | $50,500 |
| 826 Michigan | $49,750 |
| 826 Boston | $34,500 |
| 826 LA | $34,250 |
| 826 CHI | $31,500 |
| 826 Valencia | $31,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 8I826DC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +38%
- 8826LA9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +17%
- 8I826NYC Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +32%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The organizations mission is to empower young people in upper manhattan to write their own stories.
We partner with schools and communities to teach the imaginative power of language. We embrace creativity, empowerment, inclusion, and excellence. We build communities of hope and compassion through writing.
See Statement O for description of programs and services.
To create a rigorous, compassionate and inclusive environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization 826 National Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 826 National Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 826 Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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