· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $50k–250k5 grants · $592k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS | $250,000 |
| EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR | $187,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| CENTER FOR FUTURE OF ARIZONA | $120,619 |
| THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $96,228 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $62,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…
Nsta's mission is to transform science education to benefit all through professional learning, partnerships and advocacy. our guiding principles encompass: build community - we believe that the community of science educators extends beyond…
The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Nmsi's mission is to advance stem education to ensure all students, especially those furthest from opportunity, thrive and reach their highest potential as problem solvers and lifelong learners who pursue their passions and tackle the…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds STEM TEACHERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds National Network of State Teachers of the Year ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BATTELLE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds American Association of Physics Teachers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ENCORPSINC ↗
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: 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
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 National Center for Civic Innovation In 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- American Association of Physics Teachers Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% 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.