Massachusetts · Public charity
Icivics Inc
Icivics champions equitable, non-partisan civic education so that the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation. We work to provide high-quality, engaging civics & history resources to teachers & students across our nation.
- $180k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Icivics Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $621k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $170k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $856k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $224k | 93% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative Educational Service Agencies #1 | $198,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Digital Inquiry Group | $160,510 | 1 | 8% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr | $120,154 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $77,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Legislative Semester Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Kentucky Council for the Social Studies | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Maryland Youth and the Law Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Civic Nebraska | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Generationnation Inc | $59,300 | 3 | 9% |
| Virginia Civics Education Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 12% |
Show all 27 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative Educational Service Agencies #1 | $198,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Digital Inquiry Group | $160,510 | 1 | 8% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr | $120,154 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $77,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Legislative Semester Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Kentucky Council for the Social Studies | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Maryland Youth and the Law Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Civic Nebraska | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Generationnation Inc | $59,300 | 3 | 9% |
| Virginia Civics Education Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Committee of Seventy | $48,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Intrepid Museum Foundation Inc | $45,406 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana Bar Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nh Civics | $40,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Teach Democracy | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Michigan Center for Civic Education | $34,300 | 3 | 7% |
| Utah 3rs Project | $20,000 | 1 | 47% |
| The Connecticut Democracy Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Council of YMCAs of the USA | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allsides | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgia Center for Civic Engagement Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| University of Delaware | $19,206 | 2 | 0% |
| Dupage County Regional Office of Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Policy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| West Virginia Civic Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Shepherd University Foundation Inc | $8,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Arizona Civic Coalition | $8,400 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Icivics Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Icivics Inc
- How much does Icivics Inc give?
- Icivics Inc reported 10 grants totaling $180,142 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Icivics Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (96%), Education (4%).
- Who are Icivics Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cooperative Educational Service Agencies #1 ($198k), Digital Inquiry Group ($161k), Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr ($120k).
- Does Icivics Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Icivics Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Tides Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Icivics Inc based?
- Icivics Inc is based in MA.
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