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National Public Education Support Fund

The philanthropic collaborative for education strengthens, convenes, and catalyzes networks of philanthropy to advance the equitable and just education and systemic policies and practices that create the conditions every learner needs to achieve, thrive, and succeed in a global diverse society.

$356k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$4.3MCivil Rights$370kPublic Benefit$250kYouth Development$150kScience & Tech$145kHuman Services$80kSocial Science$35kArts & Culture$32k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $345,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $356,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,000 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 · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION$250,000
TIES TEACHING INSTITUTE FOR ESSENTIAL SCIENCE$95,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA: $65k → 13%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA: $15k → 13%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

NH
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
AZ
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of National Public Education Support Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Public Education Support Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 14 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$3.9M
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

86%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationSocial ScienceCivil RightsArts & CulturePublic BenefitScience & TechOther
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

  • RH
    REACHING HIGHER NEW HAMPSHIRE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $528k · revenue +16% · 31% of their budget
  • GA
    GEORGIA APPLESEED INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $341k · revenue +57%
  • SE
    SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $294k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • TC
    Twin Cities Innovation Alliance
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -60% · 44% of their budget
  • AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • Hopelab Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +966%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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6
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…

Science & Tech
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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10
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education; the most unlike its peers is Hopelab Foundation Inc. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 31 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $1,075,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INCREACHING HIGHER NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $527,500 · EducationREACHING HIGHER NEW HAMPSHIRE INCTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $343,400 · EducationTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATIONPublic Education Matters Georgia Inc: $330,500 · EducationPublic Education Matters Georgia IncSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $293,900 · EducationSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $200,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUNDTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $160,700 · EducationNew York University: $123,300 · Education+4 more: $125,400 · EducationGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $341,347 · Civil RightsGEORGIA APP…Californians For Justice Education Fund: $215,000 · Civil RightsCalifornian…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $283,086 · OtherREGENTS OF THE …PUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $110,000 · OtherPUBLIC ADVOCATE…TIES TEACHING INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN STEM LLC: $95,000 · OtherTIES TEACHING I…Stanford University - SCOPE: $45,700 · OtherStanford Univer…Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $80,000 · OtherGeorgia Coaliti…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEM…+3 more: $47,300 · Other+3 moreNational Academy of Public Administration: $250,000 · Public BenefitCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $70,000 · Public BenefitTwin Cities Innovation Alliance: $200,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $105,700 · Community ImprovementRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC: $140,900 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Social ScienceINTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Social ScienceHopelab Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Health
Education$3,179,700Civil Rights$556,347Other$711,086Public Benefit$320,000Community Improvement$305,700Social Science$190,900Health$100,000

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 FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $1,075,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetREACHING HIGHER NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $527,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $343,400 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $341,347 over 2y, 11% of budgetPublic Education Matters Georgia Inc: $330,500 over 3y, 81% of budgetSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $293,900 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNational Academy of Public Administration: $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $215,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTwin Cities Innovation Alliance: $200,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $160,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC: $140,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNew York University: $123,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $105,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHopelab Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $80,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,400 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.

The William & Flora H…New Venture FundAnnie E Casey Foundat…Gates FoundationTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationThe Schott Foundation…Raikes FoundationSkyline FoundationElbridge Stuart Found…The Heising-Simons Fo…
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Raikes Foundation · Skyline Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Heising-Simons 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 Public Education Support Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Public Education Support Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to National Public Education Support Fund?

    Find your warmest path to National Public Education Support Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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