Who are National Education Association of the United States's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Teachers Association ($98M), New Jersey Education Association ($45M), Pennsylvania State Education Association ($43M).

Does National Education Association of the United States fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Education Association of the United States?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Open Society Action Fund Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund.

National Education Association of the United States

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National Education Association of the United States

Q: How much does National Education Association of the United States give?

National Education Association of the United States reported 203 itemized grants totaling $135,287,938, out of $153,774,870 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 179 and 203 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Q: What does National Education Association of the United States fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Membership Benefit (69%), Employment (14%), Education (10%).

Q: Where is National Education Association of the United States based?

National Education Association of the United States is based in DC.

Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

$154M

Granted FY2024still arriving

203

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$14M

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, FY2017 to 2024.

Membership Benefit$670MEmployment$134MEducation$101MPublic Benefit$25MCommunity Improvement$12MCivil Rights$9.4MHuman Services$5.8MPhilanthropy$2.3MOther$0

02FY2024 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 203 grants below total $135,287,938, the rows itemized in this filing. The $153,774,870 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,486,932 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 $10k10 grants · $83k
$10k–50k68 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k65 grants · $7.4M
$250k+60 grants · $126M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$443M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION	$13,560,103
OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$6,183,743
MICHIGAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$5,896,598
PENNSYLVANIA STATE EDUCATION ASSN	$5,878,935
ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION-NEA	$5,257,586
NEW JERSEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$5,055,075
MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION	$4,940,457
FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$3,943,493
MARYLAND STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$3,602,780
WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$3,505,657
COLORADO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$3,286,998
VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$2,949,142
ALABAMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$2,936,899
TEXAS STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION	$2,559,594
OREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION	$2,245,416

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$934M · 292 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

292 repeat relationships: 161 still active in FY2024, 131 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292

217

Total granted

$934M

$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+10%

Still filing today

82%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCivil RightsEmploymentPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

CT
CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $98M · revenue +20%
NJ
NEW JERSEY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $45M · revenue +16%
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $43M · revenue +21%

Funded once

IE
ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $4.5M
TG
The Good Land Committee Inc
one grant, 2020 · $3.5M
GW
GREATER WISCONSIN COMMITTEE INC
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -97%

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.

National Education Association of the United States

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Mesa Valley Education Association

To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

Employment

East Side Teachers Association

To represent its members in their relations with their employer in all matters relating to employment conditions,including but not limited to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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Association of American Educators

To promote and assist teachers and administrators in pursuing excellence in primary and secondary education.

Community Improvement

Connecticut Education Association

The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.

—

Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

—

Loudoun Education Association Inc

Advocate for quality public school and public school employees where members work collaboratively and organize for action to reach the common goals of the association.

—

California Retired Teachers As

To support public education and promote the professional interest of public school educators, and protect interest in retirement benefits.

—

Coalition of Oregon School Administrators

Unite all school administrators in the promotion of continuous improvement of education.

—

California Teachers Association Alhambra Teachers Association

The local's primary function includes representing members in matters related to employee-employer relations, including, but not limited to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment and to protect and preserve the union as…

—

Westerville Education Association

Represent labor union members through advocacy and training.

—

East Williston Teachers Association

Labor union

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Education Association; the most unlike its peers is Raikes 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

444 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. 444 of the 558 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

426/444

Grantees still filing

276/444

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$773,344,199Employment$100,986,883Education$42,488,229Public Benefit$14,199,240Civil Rights$8,515,000Community Improvement$5,699,799Arts & Culture$1,990,500

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

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.

American Federation of State County and Municipal EmployeesDC90.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · State Engagement Fund · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Strategic Victory Fund

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 Education Association of the United States funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Education Association of the United States. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

23get 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

⤢ 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home