How much does National Skills Coalition give?

National Skills Coalition reported 23 grants totaling $650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does National Skills Coalition fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (55%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (10%).

Who are National Skills Coalition's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation ($450k), National Fund for Workforce Solutions ($422k), Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc ($250k).

Does National Skills Coalition fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Skills Coalition?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Jobs for the Future Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc.

Where is National Skills Coalition based?

National Skills Coalition is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

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. Since 2000, through expert analysis and technical assistance, broad-based organizing, targeted advocacy, and cutting-edge…

$650k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 30
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 40; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 22
Total assets, FY2024: $17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations National Skills Coalition funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EmploymentEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	22	$625k	14%
FY2023	30	$684k	40%
FY2022	20	$667k	40%
FY2021	27	$829k	22%
FY2020	40	$1.9M	50%
FY2019	24	$1.1M	71%
FY2018	8	$200k	100%
FY2017	5	$265k	n/a

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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.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation	$450,000	2	23%
National Fund for Workforce Solutions	$422,400	2	11%
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc	$250,000	5	3%
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation	$240,000	6	29%
North Carolina Justice Center	$235,000	4	1%
Community College League of California	$225,000	6	1%
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc	$200,000	1	6%
Education Strategy Group LLC	$184,000	1	n/a
Chicago Jobs Council	$175,000	5	4%
Indiana Community Action Association Inc	$165,000	5	1%

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All grantees of National Skills Coalition by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation	$450,000	2	23%
National Fund for Workforce Solutions	$422,400	2	11%
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc	$250,000	5	3%
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation	$240,000	6	29%
North Carolina Justice Center	$235,000	4	1%
Community College League of California	$225,000	6	1%
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc	$200,000	1	6%
Education Strategy Group LLC	$184,000	1	n/a
Chicago Jobs Council	$175,000	5	4%
Indiana Community Action Association Inc	$165,000	5	1%
Invest in Louisiana	$160,000	4	5%
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland	$160,000	5	6%
Central Six Development Council Region 4 Inc	$150,000	4	20%
United Way for Southeastern Michigan	$150,000	5	0%
United Way of Central Iowa	$150,000	5	0%
Colorado Center on Law and Policy	$140,000	4	3%
United Ways of Texas Inc	$140,000	4	4%
Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership	$140,000	4	1%
New York Association of Training and Employment Professionals Inc	$140,000	4	5%
Portland Community College	$135,000	4	n/a
Michigan Community College Association	$130,000	1	6%
United Way of Connecticut Inc	$125,000	4	0%
Job Opportunities Task Force Inc	$125,000	4	3%
Arkansas Community Colleges	$100,000	1	6%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$100,000	1	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$96,829	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$96,829	1	n/a
Workforce Development Council Seattle-Ki	$90,000	3	0%
Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Inc	$75,000	4	0%
Unite-La Inc	$75,000	4	1%
State of Ohio	$75,000	2	n/a
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce	$65,000	3	1%
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce	$65,000	3	0%
Nc Budget & Tax Center	$65,000	2	3%
Foundation for California Community Colleges	$60,000	1	0%
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc	$60,000	1	0%
University of Rhode Island	$60,000	1	n/a
Virginia Community College System	$52,500	3	n/a
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce	$45,000	2	0%
Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce	$40,000	3	0%
Institute for Workforce Development	$40,000	3	3%
Dallas Regional Chamber	$40,000	3	0%
Louisiana Association of Business and Industry	$40,000	3	1%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc	$31,500	2	0%
Connecticut State Colleges and University Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce	$30,000	2	0%
Greater Des Moines Partnership	$30,000	3	0%
New Mexico Human Services Department	$30,000	1	n/a
Yuma la Paz Counties Community College District (Arizona Western College )	$30,000	1	n/a
New America Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Nyatep	$25,000	1	n/a
Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res	$22,500	2	n/a
The West Alabama Chamber Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	4%
The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa	$15,000	1	n/a
Nevada Department of Health and Human Services	$15,000	1	n/a
Capital Workforce Partners Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido	$15,000	1	1%
NJ Dept of Environmental Protection	$15,000	1	n/a
Higher Education Coordinating Commission - Office of Workforce Investments	$15,000	1	n/a
Communication Center State Services for the Blind	$15,000	1	n/a
Missouri Department of Higher Education & Workforce Development	$15,000	1	n/a
State of Tennessee	$15,000	1	n/a
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$14,000	1	0%
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition	$14,000	1	0%
Jewish Vocational & Career Counseling Service	$14,000	1	0%
Association of Washington Business	$10,000	1	n/a
Careerrise Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Los Angeles Black Worker Center	$10,000	1	0%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project	$10,000	1	0%
Building Skills Partnership	$10,000	1	0%
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce	$10,000	1	0%
Sf Lgbt Community Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Central Valley Workers Center	$10,000	1	1%
Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Milpa	$10,000	1	0%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center	$10,000	1	0%
Complete Tennessee	$3,500	2	3%

National Skills Coalition supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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.

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

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.

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About National Skills Coalition

How much does National Skills Coalition give?: National Skills Coalition reported 23 grants totaling $650,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does National Skills Coalition fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (55%), Education (16%), Community Improvement (10%).
Who are National Skills Coalition's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation ($450k), National Fund for Workforce Solutions ($422k), Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc ($250k).
Does National Skills Coalition fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Skills Coalition?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Jobs for the Future Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc.
Where is National Skills Coalition based?: National Skills Coalition is based in DC.