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National Center for Civic Innovation In

The board of the fund for the city of new york created the NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN 1992 to facilitate the adaptation in other areas of the country and beyond of some of the initiatives the fund developed to promote the performance of government and nonprofit organizations. The fund and the national center have a shared…

$1.1M
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
6
Organizations funded FY2018
83%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$125,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
6
Total assets, FY2018
$94M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 83% of the organizations National Center for Civic Innovation In funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20186$1.0M83%
FY201716$2.6Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$1.5MScience & Tech$1.1MEnvironment$357kHuman Services$307kYouth Development$233kCommunity Improvement$121kPhilanthropy$63k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of National Center for Civic Innovation In by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Museum of Natural History$507,00010%
Expanded Schools Inc$482,88022%
New York Hall of Science$357,00012%
New York Botanical Garden$357,00010%
STEM Teachers of New York City Inc$307,000193%
American Institute of Mathematics$250,00015%
University System of New Hampshire$207,0001n/a
Loyola Marymount University$207,00010%
National Network of State Teachers of the Year$187,5001n/a
Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education$172,0001n/a
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$147,00011%
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$125,00010%
Center for the Future of Arizona$120,6191n/a
The Fund for Public Schools Inc$96,22811%
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc$60,00011%
Battelle Education$57,00012%
Regents of the University of California$9,5541n/a
American Association of Physics Teachers Inc$8,15010%
The Colorado Education Initiative$7,01210%
Encorpsinc$6,00011%
University of Maryland College Park$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

National Center for Civic Innovation In supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $507,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetExpanded Schools Inc: $482,880 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNew York Hall of Science: $357,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $357,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEM Teachers of New York City Inc: $307,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetAmerican Institute of Mathematics: $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $207,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northern Colorado Foundation: $147,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fund for Public Schools Inc: $96,228 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFund for Educational Excellence Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBattelle Education: $57,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Association of Physics Teachers Inc: $8,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Colorado Education Initiative: $7,012 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEncorpsinc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Tides CenterCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Center · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About National Center for Civic Innovation In

How much does National Center for Civic Innovation In give?
National Center for Civic Innovation In reported 7 grants totaling $1,096,930 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does National Center for Civic Innovation In fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (41%), Science & Tech (30%), Environment (10%).
Who are National Center for Civic Innovation In's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: American Museum of Natural History ($507k), Expanded Schools Inc ($483k), New York Hall of Science ($357k).
Does National Center for Civic Innovation In fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Center for Civic Innovation In?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Center, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is National Center for Civic Innovation In based?
National Center for Civic Innovation In is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $599k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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