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National Charitable Endowment Inc

National charitable endowment's mission is to serve and support others through the facilitation of charitable giving, primarily through its role as an independent sponsor of donor advised funds by providing an easy, flexible, and cost-effective solution for establishing giving programs to qualified charitable organizations.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
35
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$13MEducation$5.7MPhilanthropy$3.4MReligion$3.0MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$974kRecreation & Sports$805kOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 125 grants below total $6,864,299, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,738,040 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $873,741 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $141k
  • $10k–50k79 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
$16,485
Median grant
35
States reached
$176M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,010,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$474,726
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL$150,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$125,000
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$110,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$100,000
THE EFFECT$100,000
YWCA SPOKANE$100,000
LOVE HOPE AND STRENGTH$100,000
NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$82,300
MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE$75,000
EAGLE BROOK CHURCH$75,000
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$67,500
GAYLORD HOSPITAL INC$61,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT AIM FOR SEVA INC: $100k → 12%NOBLE VIKING CHARITIES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $20k → 10%FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 12%CHARITY WATER: $7k → 4%GIVENS ESTATES: $15k → 12%REALIZE IMPACT: $23k → 10%WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $20k → 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 14%FRIENDSHIP TABLE: $15k → 15%BELLBROOK-SUGARCREEK COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER: $11k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $11k → 10%YWCA SPOKANE: $100k → 12%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ORPHAN CARE ALLIANCE: $30k → 15%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $13k → 10%YWCA SPOKANE: $50k → 12%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%HOSEAS HOUSE: $10k → 15%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $9k → 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $8k → 17%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $9k → 10%SOCIETY ST VINCENT DE PAUL ALAMEDA COUNTY: $7k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $7k → 10%SOCIETY ST VINCENT DE PAUL ALAMEDA COUNTY: $6k → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $250k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $250k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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DC
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GA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 103 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
132

Total granted

$24M
$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12M · revenue +40%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • NP
    NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $538k · revenue +327%

Funded once

  • JO
    JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $501k · revenue -28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -30%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

257 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 257 of the 306 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
249/257
Grantees still filing
162/257
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,010,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE+3 more: $501,500 · ReligionSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSIT…NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $537,800 · EducationNAVAL POSTGRADUATE…UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF KENT…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $455,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIV…COALITION FOR COLLEGE: $315,000 · EducationCOALITION FOR COLL…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON…FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $250,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $206,479 · Education+35 more: $1,541,500 · Education+35 moreCHABAD OF SUNNYVALE: $500,000 · OtherCHABAD OF SUNNYVALECOLEL CHABAD: $400,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $332,500 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $276,100 · Other+102 more: $6,067,740 · Other+102 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $524,656 · PhilanthropyJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $500,500 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $290,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $200,000 · PhilanthropySUN ANGEL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $156,705 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,572,012 · Community ImprovementDEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING: $100,000 · Community ImprovementGaylord Hospital INC: $306,134 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $258,800 · HealthLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $120,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthONE MIND: $100,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $88,318 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Health+6 more: $234,985 · HealthTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFSI-FREEDOM SEEKERS INTERNATIONAL: $85,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $50,000 · Human Services+8 more: $235,450 · Human Services
Religion$12,511,500Education$5,105,779Other$7,576,340Philanthropy$2,221,861Community Improvement$1,672,012Health$1,553,237Human Services$1,330,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12,010,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,572,012 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $537,800 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $524,656 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $500,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $455,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $332,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR COLLEGE: $315,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $306,134 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF JCC KRAKOW INC: $301,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $290,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $276,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $258,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $232,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC BRIDGE: $211,100 over 4y, 41% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $206,479 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUN ANGEL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $172,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $154,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHRIST GOSPEL CHURCH INC: $150,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetTHE SENIOR HUB INC: $137,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $126,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $125,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $117,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBABY2BABY: $112,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew England College: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING: $100,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago · Bitton Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Sheldon and Freda Robinson Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Charitable Endowment Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Charitable Endowment Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Family Center: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Museum of Discovery and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to National Charitable Endowment Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 306 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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