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Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation

The purposes of the foundation are charitable, educational and scientific. Specifically, the foundation shall support educational programs and research in fluid power.

$288k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$22,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$70k11%
FY202414$87k14%
FY202312$110k25%
FY202215$235k40%
FY202119$183k74%
FY20208$185k50%
FY20198$152k88%
FY20182$830k50%
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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 2025.

Science & Tech$2.0MEducation$621kHealth$65kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
CA
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CO
MO
KY
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NC
LA
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GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Minnesota$1,779,0006n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$159,4507n/a
Milwaukee School of Engineering$75,57760%
Iowa State University$38,7704n/a
Ohio University$33,0002n/a
Triton College Foundation$31,000212%
South Dakota State University$30,2504n/a
Western Michigan University$30,0002n/a
California Polytechnic State University$28,2002n/a
Northern Illinois University$26,5004n/a
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All grantees of Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Minnesota$1,779,0006n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$159,4507n/a
Milwaukee School of Engineering$75,57760%
Iowa State University$38,7704n/a
Ohio University$33,0002n/a
Triton College Foundation$31,000212%
South Dakota State University$30,2504n/a
Western Michigan University$30,0002n/a
California Polytechnic State University$28,2002n/a
Northern Illinois University$26,5004n/a
Michigan Technological University$26,2503n/a
North Carolina a & T State University$26,1031n/a
Macomb Community College Foundation$26,00011%
Curators of the University of Missouri$25,0001n/a
Cleveland Community College$25,0001n/a
School District of New Berlin$24,0001n/a
Cleveland State University$23,0004n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$22,2504n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$22,00010%
Northeastern University$20,00020%
University of Wisconsin$20,0002n/a
Case Western Reserve University$20,00020%
Murray State University Foundation Inc$19,99720%
Lawrence Technological University$19,26910%
Kennesaw State University$17,2503n/a
Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc$16,75030%
Community Colleges of Spokane Association of Higher Education -$14,000210%
University of Louisiana at Lafayette$12,2502n/a
Loyola Marymount University$11,75020%
Murray State University$11,0001n/a
University of Cincinnati$10,7502n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$10,00010%
University of California Merced Foundation$10,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$10,0001n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology$10,0001n/a
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$7,99510%
Littleton Public Schools Foundation$7,50011%
University of Utah$5,7501n/a
State of West Virginia$5,5001n/a
Tennessee State University$5,5001n/a
Regents of the University of California$5,0001n/a
Vanderbilt University$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMilwaukee School of Engineering: $75,577 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTriton College Foundation: $31,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMacomb Community College Foundation: $26,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMurray State University Foundation Inc: $19,997 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Technological University: $19,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc: $16,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Colleges of Spokane Association of Higher Education -: $14,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLoyola Marymount University: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Tech Research Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California Merced Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $7,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittleton Public Schools Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVanderbilt University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 16.

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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.

American Chemical SocietyDC19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Columbus Foundation · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · National Writing Project Corporation · Generac Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Dayton Foundation

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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How do I get to Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nfpa Education & Technology 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.

About Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation

How much does Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation give?
Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $70,000, out of $287,838 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Education (23%), Health (2%).
Who are Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Minnesota ($1.8M), Trustees of Purdue University ($159k), Milwaukee School of Engineering ($76k).
Does Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Chemical Society, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation based?
Nfpa Education & Technology Foundation is based in WI.

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 44 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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