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NCEES Foundation

The NCEES Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the national council of examiners for engineering and surveying (ncees).

$404k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boston Society of Civil Engineers: $20k → 16%Pennsylvania Engineering Foundation: $25k → 12%Florida Atlantic University: $50k → 11%Engineers' Foundation of Kansas: $9k → 20%Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon: $47k → 12%North Carolina Society of Surveyors Education Foundation: $17k → 8%University of Alaska Anchorage College of Engineering Civil Engineering: $20k → 10%National Council of Structural Engineers Foundation: $35k → 14%National Society of Black Engineers Professional Los Angeles Chapter: $10k → 9%University of Maine Surveying Engineering Technology: $100k → 15%Chicago Engineers' Foundation: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
IL
MA
OR
PA
KY
VA
KS
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
American Society of Civil Engineers North Carolina Section

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…

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2
American Society of Civil Engineers Georgia Section

Advance science & civil engineering profession

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3
American Society of Civil Engineers Virginia Section

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…

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4
American Society of Civil Engineers National Capital Section

Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession

Science & Tech
5
American Society of Civil Engineers Nevada Section

Advance science & civil engineering profession

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6
American Society of Civil Engineers Central Pennsylvania Section

Promote Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession

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7
American Society of Civil Engineers Alabama Section

Promote Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession

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8
National Society of Professional Engineers

To foster licensed professional engineers in service to society.

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9
American Society of Civil Engineers Illinois Section

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…

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10
American Society of Civil Engineers Oregon Section

Promote civil engineering profession

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11
American Society of Civil Engineers New Jersey Section

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…

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12
American Society of Civil Engineers St Louis Section

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INCFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITYPROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF OREGON INC: $47,000 · OtherPROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF OREGON INCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATIONS INC: $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL COUNCIL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATIONS INCUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $28,218 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKANORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF SURVEYORS: $16,900 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF SURVEYORS+2 more: $19,000 · Other+2 moreUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $37,500 · EducationUniversity of Ken…PENNSYLVANIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ENGI…BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION/ASCE: $20,000 · Science & TechChicago Engineers' Foundation of the Union League Club: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$316,118Education$62,500Science & Tech$20,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATIONS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION/ASCE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF SURVEYORS: $16,900 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetENGINEERS' FOUNDATION OF KANSAS: $9,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetChicago Engineers' Foundation of the Union League Club: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization NCEES Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NCEES Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to NCEES Foundation?

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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