How much did NAF grant in FY2024?

NAF reported 14 grants totaling $683,641 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· 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.

$684k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$150k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of NAF’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

awardsdistrictboard

2019

initial planningplanning naf-fundimplementation naf-fundnaf-fund stemstem initative

2020

distinguished awarddcpsstem

2021

ballmerdistinguished awardsstem distinguisheddcpsdistrict

2022

technology lablab equipmentequipment raytheonsub-grant sponsoredsponsored raytheonstudent internintern salaries

2023

modelpassthroughrtx marketingsubgrantfuture readyready scholarsdistinguished

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $29k
$10k–50k8 grants · $139k
$50k–250k2 grants · $235k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$12,000
FOREST MUNICIPAL 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
REEDY CREEK ROBOTICS BOOSTERS INC$6,000
MIDDLETOWN EXTRA CLASSROOM ACTIVITY FUNDS$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 24 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+12%

Still filing today

50%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationEmploymentArts & CultureOther

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

DP
DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
5× · 2019–2023 · $461k · revenue +82%
R
READYCT
3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +1547%
FP
FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $212k · revenue +76%

Funded once

DE
DALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $118k · revenue -38%
DT
DFW TECHNOLOGY & EDUCATION COUNCIL
one grant, 2019 · $60k
MIT COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
one grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Washington School Principals Education

Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.

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Delaware Foundation for Science and

Dfsme's mission is to strengthen science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to prepare all delaware students to be informed citizens and competitive in the global workforce.

Science & Tech

The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education

The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

Denver Scholarship Foundation

To empower dps students to enroll in and graduate from college. (full mission on schedule o)

Education

Science Academies of New York

The Schools seek to graduate students who can think critically and creatively.

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Digital Pioneers Academy Public

The mission of digital pioneers academy (dpa) is to develop the next generation of innovators. we prepare students to meet or exceed the highest academic standards, while cultivating the strength of character necessary to both graduate…

Education

Education Foundation of Palm Beach

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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Innovation Charter High School

Public charter high school in new york city that promotes leadership through innovation.

Education

Scholarship Prep

To provide a university-inspired pathway of success for all students.

Education

Westminster Public Schools Foundation

To create partnerships and programs that increase learning opportunities for westminster public schools students

Education

Austin Public Education Foundation

Develop and steward meaningful public and private partnerships that promote innovation and support opportunities that prepare austin isd students for college, career and life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicultural Career Intern Program and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,520

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

12/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,106,053Education$1,990,650Employment$200,000Arts & Culture$45,500

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.

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.

Round It Up America IncCA27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The George W Bush Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Digital Promise Global · Project Lead the Way Inc · American Theatre Wing Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan

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 organisation 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GLOBAL INTITIATIVES INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 161501127 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GLOBAL INTITIATIVES INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Naf?

Find your warmest path to Naf through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NAF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Naf?

More from the funding graph

NAF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Naf?

More from the funding graph