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NCEES Foundation
The NCEES Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the national council of examiners for engineering and surveying (ncees).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Maine Surveying Engineering Technology | $100,000 |
| Florida Atlantic University | $50,000 |
| Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | $47,000 |
| University of Kentucky | $37,500 |
| National Council of Structural Engineers Foundation | $35,000 |
| University of Florida School of Forest Fisheries and Geomatics Sciences | $28,218 |
| Pennsylvania Engineering Foundation | $25,000 |
| Boston Society of Civil Engineers | $20,000 |
| University of Alaska Anchorage College of Engineering Civil Engineering | $20,000 |
| North Carolina Society of Surveyors Education Foundation | $16,900 |
| National Society of Black Engineers Professional Los Angeles Chapter | $10,000 |
| Engineers' Foundation of Kansas | $9,000 |
| Chicago Engineers' Foundation | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
Advance science & civil engineering profession
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession
Advance science & civil engineering profession
Promote Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession
Promote Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession
To foster licensed professional engineers in service to society.
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
Promote civil engineering profession
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Society of Surveyors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION/ASCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF SURVEYORS ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS' FOUNDATION OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds Chicago Engineers' Foundation of the Union League Club ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization NCEES 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to NCEES Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.