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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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
38
States reached
$533k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Science & Tech$3.9MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$96kRecreation & Sports$58kArts & Culture$46kCommunity Improvement$11k
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,486,048, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,253,897 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,767,849 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $922k
  • $250k+1 grant · $533k
$20,094
Median grant
38
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN ARIZONA RESEARCH SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $33k → 15%MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $55k → 16%JUNIATA COLLEGE: $44k → 13%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 22%SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $31k → 9%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION CITY UNIVERSITY NY: $41k → 13%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY UNIV AT ALBANY: $32k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $26k → 16%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $43k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE: $24k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $40k → 10%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $30k → 27%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $582k → 13%WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: $46k → 10%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $28k → 23%PATUXENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $27k → 8%UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $36k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $26k → 15%MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $26k → 16%JUNIATA COLLEGE: $23k → 13%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 22%SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 10%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $28k → 9%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION CITY UNIVERSITY NY: $38k → 13%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $32k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHARLOTTE: $26k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $27k → 27%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $533k → 13%WASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: $24k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $26k → 7%MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $25k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 22%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $28k → 9%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $28k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $25k → 27%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $499k → 13%UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $25k → 7%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $26k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $24k → 27%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME: $486k → 13%HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $24k → 9%TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY: $32k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $23k → 27%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $486k → 13%NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME: $474k → 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

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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 47 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
10

Total granted

$6.7M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

36%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyMembership 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

  • NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +169%
  • HA
    HAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +5%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TR
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +22%
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.

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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
2
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
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Drexel University

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…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
9
Manhattan University

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…

Education
10
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 66 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,059,186 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INCUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $151,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $149,252 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $139,687 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER: $136,856 · OtherMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $133,089 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $129,752 · OtherState University of Iowa: $129,497 · OtherINTELLEXI FOUNDATION INC: $119,880 · OtherUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $102,807 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $101,295 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $99,915 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $96,394 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $94,245 · Other+28 more: $1,197,326 · Other+28 moreThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $142,681 · EducationThe Research…JUNIATA COLLEGE: $117,641 · EducationJUNIATA COLL…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $110,336 · EducationTemple Unive…Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $83,738 · EducationSouthern AZ …University of Louisville Research Foundation: $78,034 · EducationUniversity o…CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $44,090 · EducationCAPITAL UNIV…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $26,810 · Education+11 more: $160,220 · Education+11 moreHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $154,650 · Science & TechTHE PATUXENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $94,780 · Science & TechALABAMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INC: $61,499 · Science & TechRESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY: $79,550 · Membership BenefitPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $10,650 · Community ImprovementLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $7,741 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,059,186Other$2,780,995Education$763,550Science & Tech$310,929Membership Benefit$79,550Community Improvement$10,650Philanthropy$7,741

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 budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,059,186 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $154,650 over 6y, 11% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $142,681 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $117,641 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $110,336 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PATUXENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $94,780 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $83,738 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: $79,759 over 3y, 71% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY: $79,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $78,034 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Academy of Science: $67,950 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetALABAMA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INC: $61,499 over 5y, 24% of budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $44,090 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $26,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $21,751 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHanover College: $17,657 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $16,478 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $14,976 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $14,031 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $11,980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION: $9,972 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $8,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $8,180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION IN SHREVEPORT: $7,741 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

National Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…Broadcom FoundationFolds of Honor Founda…Institute of Internat…Corporation for Publi…The Trustees of Colum…Tulsa Community Found…American Heart Associ…National Fish and Wil…Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon Foundation
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Patuxent Partnership Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.

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 66 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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