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National Council for the Social Studies

Founded in 1921, ncss advocates and builds capacity for high-quality social studies by providing leadership, programs, and resources for educators across the country to ensure students are educated and inspired for lifelong inquiry and informed civic action.

$208k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$55k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$54,625
Largest grant, FY2022
$54,625
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations National Council for the Social Studies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$55k100%
FY20201$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Public Benefit$55kCivil Rights$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Icivics Inc$54,62510%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$7,50010%

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About National Council for the Social Studies

How much does National Council for the Social Studies give?
National Council for the Social Studies reported 1 itemized grants totaling $54,625, out of $207,931 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does National Council for the Social Studies fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Benefit (88%), Civil Rights (12%).
Who are National Council for the Social Studies's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Icivics Inc ($55k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($8k).
Does National Council for the Social Studies fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is National Council for the Social Studies based?
National Council for the Social Studies is based in MD.

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 2 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 2022, released 2022. 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 $63k 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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