· Public charity
National Writing Project Corporation
The NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION seeks to improve the teaching of writing as a voluntary support system for the core staff of the national writing project, a fiscally sponsored project of community initiatives, that engages a national group of leading educators to improve the teaching of writing and learning.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $5,148,156 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY WRITING PROJECT | $50,400 |
| DENVER WRITING PROJECT | $40,000 |
| NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WRITING PROJECT | $16,800 |
| GREATER MADISON WRITING PROJECT | $8,400 |
| APPALACHIAN WRITING PROJECT | $8,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 112 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +61%
- CSChico State Enterprises5× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +138%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York5× · 2017–2022 · $214k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TITHE INVERNESS INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $230k · revenue -64% · 76% of their budget
- DUDREW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $109k · revenue -1%
- NNEXMAPone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue -97% · 27% of their budget
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.
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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How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 207 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
- Who funds THE INVERNESS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of African American History Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · National Geographic Society · American Council of Learned Societies · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Cornell University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Writing Project Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Writing Project Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Pacific University: 2% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Rider University: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Drew University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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