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National Endowment for Financial Education
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $389k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $117,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $155M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations National Endowment for Financial Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $366k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $654k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $591k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $816k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $417k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $453k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rand Corporation | $440,624 | 3 | 0% |
| St Louis University | $295,631 | 3 | 0% |
| The Urban Institute | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $228,559 | 2 | 0% |
| Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education | $150,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Knology Ltd | $134,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Education Northwest | $99,759 | 1 | 1% |
| Lewis & Clark College | $96,212 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $62,166 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for Financial Education & Professional Development | $35,000 | 1 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rand Corporation | $440,624 | 3 | 0% |
| St Louis University | $295,631 | 3 | 0% |
| The Urban Institute | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $228,559 | 2 | 0% |
| Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education | $150,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Knology Ltd | $134,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Education Northwest | $99,759 | 1 | 1% |
| Lewis & Clark College | $96,212 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $62,166 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for Financial Education & Professional Development | $35,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Council for Economic Education | $26,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Connect to Compete Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Foundation for the Mid South Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Coalition of Communities of Color | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| National Coalition Against Domestic Violence | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Women's Community Revitalization Project | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas Tech University System | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grantmakers for Effective Organizations | $850 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Endowment for Financial Education supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare National Endowment for Financial Education with peer funders
About National Endowment for Financial Education
- How much does National Endowment for Financial Education give?
- National Endowment for Financial Education reported 10 grants totaling $389,013 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does National Endowment for Financial Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Science & Tech (27%), Social Science (26%).
- Who are National Endowment for Financial Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Rand Corporation ($441k), St Louis University ($296k), The Urban Institute ($250k).
- Does National Endowment for Financial Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does National Endowment for Financial Education accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Endowment for Financial Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is National Endowment for Financial Education based?
- National Endowment for Financial Education is based in CO.
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