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National Science Teaching Association
Nsta's mission is to transform science education to benefit all through professional learning, partnerships and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $1,486,048 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,253,897 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,767,849 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $922k
- $250k+1 grant · $533k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $532,575 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $46,111 |
| JUNIATA COLLEGE | $43,917 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION CITY UNIVERSITY NY | $41,050 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $40,185 |
| SPONSORED PROG SRVCS MC 5335 | $35,887 |
| INTELLEXI FOUNDATION INC | $34,125 |
| TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY | $32,060 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $29,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $29,685 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $29,600 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY | $28,418 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY | $28,276 |
| HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $27,525 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $27,245 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +169%- HAHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +5%
- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TSTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TRone grant, 2022 · $13k
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New Yorkone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Washington State Science & Engineering Fair. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds THE PATUXENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Academy of Science ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Broadcom Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Institute of International Education Inc · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon 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 organization National Science Teaching Association 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.
- The Patuxent Partnership Inc — 1% of income from government
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 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.