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National Skills Coalition

NATIONAL SKILLS COALITION (nsc) fights for a national commitment to inclusive, high-quality skills training so that more people have access to a better life, and more local businesses see sustained growth.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Employment$3.6MEducation$1.0MCommunity Improvement$673kPublic Benefit$385kPhilanthropy$332kCivil Rights$315kHuman Services$130kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER$40,000
CHICAGO JOBS COUNCIL$40,000
UNITED WAYS OF TEXAS$40,000
WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP$40,000
INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION$40,000
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF SEATTLE$40,000
NYATEP$40,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT$25,000
CALIFORNIA EDGE COALITION$25,000
NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FDN$25,000
GEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$25,000
LOUISIANA BUDGET PROJECT$25,000
THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $100k → 8%MISSISSIPPI LOW INCOME CHILD CARE INITIATIVE: $10k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60k → 24%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $75k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $25k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 38 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
38

Total granted

$4.8M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+4%

Still filing today

89%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AO
    Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $450k · revenue +29%
  • GB
    GEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • TN
    THE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +128% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • AO
    Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +18%
  • ES
    EDUCATION STRATEGY GROUP LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $184k
  • MC
    MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $130k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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2
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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6
National Council for Workforce Education

NCWE promotes student success and excellence in education and training by providing the link between policy and practice.

Education
7
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
8
Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc

EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…

Employment
9
Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County

Clackamas workforce partnership serves youth, adult, and dislocated workers through its partnerships with private industry and workforce development providers. our job is to develop a highly skilled workforce that creates sustained…

Employment
10
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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12
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Workforce Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Immigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,485

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
42/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation — $450,000 · OtherAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives FoundationTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION — $240,000 · OtherTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATIONAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc — $200,000 · OtherAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives IncEDUCATION STRATEGY GROUP LLC — $184,000 · OtherChicago Jobs Council — $175,000 · OtherINDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $165,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $150,000 · OtherNEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS INC — $140,000 · OtherPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $135,000 · OtherMICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — $130,000 · OtherUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $150,000 · Other+39 more — $1,350,158 · Other+39 moreNATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS — $422,400 · EmploymentNATIONAL FUND FO…CENTRAL SIX DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 4 INC — $150,000 · EmploymentCENTRAL SIX DEVE…JOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $125,000 · EmploymentJOB OPPORTUNITIE…WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI — $90,000 · EmploymentWORKFORCE DEVELO…UNITE-LA INC — $75,000 · EmploymentUNITE-LA INC+6 more — $65,000 · Employment+6 moreCommunity College League of California — $225,000 · EducationCommunity …THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $160,000 · EducationTHE LITERA…ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $100,000 · EducationARKANSAS C…FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $60,000 · EducationFOUNDATION…INSTITUTE FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $40,000 · EducationINSTITUTE …CONNECTICUT STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationBoston Foundation Inc — $175,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Fou…WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP — $140,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN …UNITED WAYS OF TEXAS INC — $140,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $31,500 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 · Public BenefitINVEST IN LOUISIANA — $160,000 · Public BenefitNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $235,000 · Human ServicesMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $60,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $140,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $14,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,469,158Employment$927,400Education$615,000Philanthropy$611,500Public Benefit$410,000Human Services$315,000Crime & Legal$154,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation — $450,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS — $422,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetGEORGIA BUDGET AND POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $235,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity College League of California — $225,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetChicago Jobs Council — $175,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $160,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetINVEST IN LOUISIANA — $160,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL SIX DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGION 4 INC — $150,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP — $140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONALS INC — $140,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED WAYS OF TEXAS INC — $140,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY — $140,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — $130,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetJOB OPPORTUNITIES TASK FORCE INC — $125,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL SEATTLE-KI — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE-LA INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER — $65,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER RALEIGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDallas Regional Chamber — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PARTNERSHIP — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe West Alabama Chamber Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetThe Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL & CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Skills Partnership — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Annie E Casey Foundat…Jobs for the Future I…Lumina Foundation for…Ascendium Education S…The James Irvine Foun…Sierra Health Foundat…New Venture FundRockefeller Philanthr…Amalgamated Charitabl…Gates FoundationAmerican Bar Associat…Economic Policy Insti…
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD29.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Jobs for the Future Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · American Bar Association · Economic Policy Institute

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 Skills Coalition 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 86%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Capital Workforce Partners Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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