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National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying

The mission of ncees is to advance licensure for engineers and surveyors in order to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$3.7MEducation$1.8MScience & Tech$1.3MArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $347,570, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,369,582 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,022,012 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NCEES Foundation$117,570
University of Nebraska-Lincoln$25,000
Pennsylvania State University$25,000
Northwestern Michigan College Foundation$25,000
Engineering Change Lab$25,000
University of Akron$15,000
New Mexico State University Foundation$15,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison$10,000
Olivet Nazarene University$10,000
Miami University Dept of Chemical Paper & Biomedical Engineering$10,000
University of Wisconsin-Madison$10,000
University of Wyoming$10,000
New Jersey Institute of Technology$10,000
Dartmouth College$10,000
Nicholls State University Foundation Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WGBH Educational Foundation: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $25k → 13%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 13%Pennsylvania State University: $25k → 16%NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 23%NCEES Foundation: $118k → 10%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION: $225k → 14%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%Dordt College: $25k → 8%Northwestern Michigan College Foundation: $25k → 10%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS: $500k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $20k → 10%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $25k → 17%OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 16%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3.0M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%Engineering Change Lab: $25k → 7%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS: $125k → 6%MATH COUNTS FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY GEOMATICS PROGRAM: $15k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SURVEYING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM: $25k → 15%University of Nebraska-Lincoln: $25k → 12%IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 13%NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 23%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY SURVEYING ENGINEERING PROGRAM: $15k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $35k → 10%Oregon Institute of Technology: $15k → 16%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $500k → 12%University of Akron: $15k → 13%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY DEPT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: $20k → 9%American Society of Civil Engineers: $125k → 6%Math Counts Foundation: $25k → 9%University of Maine: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON DEPT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: $20k → 10%Engineers Without Borders: $200k → 12%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY DEPT OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: $20k → 9%MATH COUNTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%ENGINEERING CHANGE LAB: $125k → 12%ENGINEERING CHANGE LAB: $100k → 12%ENGINEERING CHANGE LAB - USA: $50k → 12%ENGINEERING CHANGE LAB: $50k → 12%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

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 27 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
26

Total granted

$5.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+36%

Still filing today

56%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • EW
    ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.7M · revenue +51% · 34% of their budget
  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +62%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +11%
  • AS
    American Society for Engineering Education
    one grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -14%
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -48%
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.

1
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
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
3
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
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
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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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
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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8
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
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Northeastern University
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee School of Engineering; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. 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

37 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. 37 of the 60 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $3,700,000 · InternationalENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC+1 more: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS - MD: $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIV…American Society for Engineering Education: $225,000 · OtherAmerican Society for En…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYNEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO STATE UNIVER…OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $85,000 · OtherOREGON INSTITUTE OF TEC…UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $80,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYS…IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · Other+23 more: $394,331 · Other+23 moreAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC: $500,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN SOCIETY…ENGINEERING CHANGE LAB - USA: $350,000 · Science & TechENGINEERING CHAN…NCEES Foundation: $130,618 · Science & TechNCEES FoundationTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…MATHCOUNTS Foundation: $80,000 · EducationMATHCOUNTS …UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA ALUMNI: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATL…LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationLAWRENCE TE…University of Maine Foundation: $40,000 · EducationUniversity …Nicholls State University Foundation: $40,000 · EducationNicholls St…Marquette University: $32,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $30,000 · EducationOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $25,000 · EducationNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education+8 more: $95,000 · Education+8 moreWGBH Educational Foundation: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS FDTN: $5,000 · Philanthropy
International$3,725,000Other$1,419,331Science & Tech$980,618Education$705,000Arts & Culture$100,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC: $3,700,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetENGINEERING CHANGE LAB - USA: $350,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS - MD: $250,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetAmerican Society for Engineering Education: $225,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNCEES Foundation: $130,618 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMATHCOUNTS Foundation: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA ALUMNI: $80,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNicholls State University Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMarquette University: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS: $31,831 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Guam Endowment Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALFRED STATE COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS FDTN: $5,000 over 1y, 28% 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.

Folds of Honor Founda…National Collegiate A…Tulsa Community Found…The Northrop Grumman …Shell USA Company Fou…The Community Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …Greater Houston Commu…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Texas Instruments Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon Foundation
Folds of Honor FoundationOK16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveying. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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