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· Public charity
NATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION
To support and enhance all space grant consortia to facilitate education, research, and public outreach activities in science, mathematics, engineering, technology and additional fields related to space, aeronautics, aviation, and earth system science.
$1.5M
Granted FY2024
29
Grants
20
Communities
$39k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of NATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
carthagecompetition awardsouth
2019
carthagestudentscompetition awardsouth
2020
educate
2021
rit
2022
ritnorth
2023
eclipse awardritrochestershapesfutureimprovescreativity
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 29 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $366k
$15,600
Median grant
20
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$39,023
- UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$25,031
- ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY$20,846
- NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY$19,949
- SALISH KOOTENAI$19,155
- UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS$18,443
- UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$17,919
- DILLIARD UNIVERSITY$17,815
- UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY$17,597
- UNIVERSTIY OF MICHIGAN$17,521
- METROPOLLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$16,974
- CENTRAL WYOMING UNIVERSITY$16,486
- CASPER COLLEGE$16,486
- UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$16,415
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$15,600
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 58% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 30 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else
30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
30
16
Total granted
$1.8M
$198k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+7%
+36%
Still filing today
30%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY3× · 2021–2023 · $92k · revenue +23%- PIPRATT INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2021 · $37k · revenue +24%
- SCST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICOone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CPCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
1
Claflin University
Claflin university is an independent, liberal arts, co-educational, historically black institution that is affiliated with the united methodist church. it is dedicated to educational excellence and to preparing students without regard to…
Education
2
St Edwards University
To provide a culturally diverse student body with an education that achieves a balance among the humanities, the sciences and the professions.
Education
3
Pacific University
A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world
Education
4
Coker University
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Education
5
Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
6
Saint Martin's University
Saint martin's university is a catholic benedictine institute of higher education that empowers students to pursue a lifetime of learning and accomplishment in all arenas of human endeavor.
Education
7
Calvin University
To equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world. calvin university is a christian academic community dedicated to rigorous intellectual inquiry. students study the…
Education
8
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
9
Colgate University
Colgate university's mission is to provide a demanding, expansive educational experience to a select group of diverse, talented, intellectually sophisticated students who are capable of challenging themselves, their peers and their…
Education
10
Dominican University
As a Sinsinawa Dominican sponsored institution, Dominican University prepares students to pursue truth, give compassionate service and participate in the creation of a more just and humane world.
Education
11
Saint Xavier University
Educate men and women to search for the truth, think critically, and communicate effectively.
Education
12
St Louis University
To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Miami and the most unlike its peers is Pratt Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,502
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.
05the grantee network
24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,622,822Education$609,862
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 CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DILLIARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN ↗
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.
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · American Heart Association Inc · Association of Universities for Research · Northeastern University · Carnegie Mellon University · The Trustees of Columbia University
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 organisation NATIONAL SPACE GRANT FOUNDATION 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +68% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 721123204 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to National Space Grant Foundation?
Find your warmest path to National Space Grant Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines