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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
2
Communities
$105k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.
Education$1.6MHuman Services$100kYouth Development$10kOther$607k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
information technologyscienceeducationchangewomenresearchincrease
2022
women
2023
prizes awards
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$105,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF NO GA$105,000
- LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND$100,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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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Girls in Stem
Human Services
2
Association for Career & Technical
The mission of the association for career and technical education is to provide educational leadership in developing a competitive workforce.
Education
3
Association for Computing
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
Science & Tech
4
Applied Computer Security Associate
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5
Texas Computer Education Association
Tcea is dedicated to advancing teaching and learning through the use of technology.
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6
Council of Graduate Schools
Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.
Education
7
Society of American Military Engineers
Promote and facilitate engineering support for national security among uniformed services and related professions.
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8
Command and General Staff College
The cgsc foundation supports the united states army command and general staff college in educating leaders for the 21st century in the following six mission areas: enrich the college's academic environment; foster a strong relationship…
Education
9
National Technical Honor Society
To advocate for and empower all students to pursue the skills needed to build their careers and the global workforce.
Education
10
California Science Teachers Association
To provide a statewide organization for the improvement of K-12 and post-secondary science education, to promote scientific thinking and teaching methods, and to encourage and conduct research in the field of science education.
Arts & Culture
11
Technology Policy Institute
International
12
National Science Teaching Association
To transform science education to benefit all through professional learning, partnerships and advocacy.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Air & Space Forces Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WICYS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 53.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 822750482 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WICYS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to National Cyber Scholarship Foundation?
Find your warmest path to National Cyber Scholarship Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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State money flows
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