· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Naf’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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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Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 48 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.
- 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 NYC ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Naf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Naf. Bigger dots raise more.
- Readyct Inc: 61% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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