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National Notary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$176kHuman Services$50kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$20kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kHealth$1kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,145
Median grant
1
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAUI STRONG FUND$4,145
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHINESE AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 16%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%CALVIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%ANTELOPE CROSSING MIDDLE SCHOOL: $1k → 12%ALLIANCE MARINE-INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY 6-12 COMPLEX: $50k → 14%MAUI STRONG FUND: $4k → 9%KAUAI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATOIN: $5k → 9%CANTERBURY SCHOOL: $1k → 11%A NEW START FINANCIAL & SOCIAL SERVICES: $468 → 13%ISIAH AND JEREMIAH CHURCH: $1k → 21%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1k → 24%CALVIN COOLIDGE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE HEAVEN SENT FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ALLIANCE MARINE-INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY 6-12 COMPLEX: $25k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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

VT
WA
MI
MA
CA
VA
MD
NC
HI
GA
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 3 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$165k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationReligionArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • AC
    ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +18%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue -16%
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CC
    CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -52%
  • CL
    CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%
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
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
2
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
3
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
4
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
5
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.

Philanthropy
6
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
7
California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
8
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
9
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University Northridge Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Chinese American Heritage FoundationInc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 · EducationALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY+3 more: $7,000 · EducationTHE SALVATION ARMY: $50,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCITY OF HOPE: $30,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEKAUAI HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATOIN: $5,000 · OtherMAUI STRONG FUND: $4,145 · Other+6 more: $6,000 · Other+6 moreCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · ReligionCALVIN CO…Chinese American Heritage FoundationInc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureA NEW START FINANCIAL & SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $468 · Public Benefit
Education$167,000Other$95,145Religion$25,000Arts & Culture$1,000Public Benefit$468

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 budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese American Heritage FoundationInc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetA NEW START FINANCIAL & SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $468 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Notary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Notary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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