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National Cyber Scholarship Foundation

The NATIONAL CYBER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION aims to support the entry of thousands of talented students to the cybersecurity industry, through providing talent discovery opportunities, world-class training, and scholarships to fund degree level study.

$227k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212023.

Education$1.8MEmployment$465k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $205,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $227,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$105,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$309k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NO GA$105,000
LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND$100,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
2
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
3
The Computing Research Association Inc

The specific purposes of the corporation include the following:a.) to consider and act on general problems regarding computer science and computer engineering research and graduate education;b.) to foster interaction between the university…

4
Csab Inc

Csab, inc. is the lead society within abet for accreditation of programs in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, data science, software engineering and information technology, and is a cooperating society for accreditation…

Science & Tech
5
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
6
Association for Computing Machinery Inc

We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.

Science & Tech
7
United Cybersecurity Alliance Inc

We provide cybersecurity educational programs for career development and job placement

Public Benefit
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

10
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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Maritime Transportation System Information Sharing & Analysis Center

The corporation promotes and facillitates maritime cybersecurity information sharing, awareness, training and collaboration efforts between private and public sector members to effectively improve cyber risk management across the entire…

Community Improvement
12
Society of Women Engineers

The society's mission is to stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Women in Cyber Security. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $1,491,800 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCWomen In Cyber Security — $59,000 · Education+3 more — $25,700 · EducationCYBER TALENT INSTITUTE — $465,000 · OtherCYBER TALENT INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA — $142,092 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIALAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,576,500Other$607,092Human Services$100,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $1,491,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCYBER TALENT INSTITUTE — $465,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWomen In Cyber Security — $59,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LLC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStillman College — $7,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Tides FoundationCA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Cyber Scholarship Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to National Cyber Scholarship Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to National Cyber Scholarship Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $106k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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