· Public charity
Naf
NAF solves some of the biggest challenges facing education and the economy by bringing education, business, and community leaders together to transform the high school experience.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $403,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $683,641 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $280,641 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READY CT | $150,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS | $26,000 |
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL | $24,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $23,000 |
| JACKSON-REED PARENT TEACHER STUDENT ORGANIZATION | $21,000 |
| FOREST MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| COMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG BOARD OF EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| BROWARD PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANTS ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
| ELVIRA M COLN NEGRN CONSEJO ESCOLAR | $8,000 |
| MIDDLETOWN EXTRA CLASSROOM ACTIVITY FUNDS | $6,000 |
| REEDY CREEK ROBOTICS BOOSTERS INC | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Naf’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RIREADYCT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +230%
- FPFRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $212k · revenue +16%
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue ×19
Funded once
- DEDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $118k · revenue +61%
- DSDFW SEMICONDUCTOR & TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $60k
- TRTechnology Review Incone grant, 2022 · $46k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
To ensure excellence in mathematics teaching in DC public and public charter schools by recruiting, training and retaining talented mathematics teachers over a five-year period.
The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…
The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. corporate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Porterville Pathways Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds READYCT INC ↗
- Who funds Broward Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNET EDUCATIONAL CHOICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Technology Review Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON-REED PARENT TEACHER STUDENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds PORTERVILLE PATHWAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Olympic High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · Digital Promise Global · Save the Music Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Naf funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Readyct Inc — 61% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.