Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Society for Science & the Public
Society for science is a champion for science, dedicated to expanding scientific literacy, effective stem education and scientific research.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $202k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $165M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Society for Science & the Public funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationScience & TechPublic BenefitOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $202k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $250k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $218k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $202k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $223k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $246k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $250k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $285k | n/a |
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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 2024.
Science & Tech$1.4MEducation$453kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kPublic Benefit$10k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Department of Education | $140,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bergen County Academies | $110,000 | 7 | n/a |
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | $108,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Montgomery County Public Schools | $104,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Jericho Senior High School | $86,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology | $86,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Harker School | $86,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ossining Union Free School District | $76,000 | 8 | n/a |
| byram hills central school district | $62,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Great Neck Union Free School District | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYC Department of Education | $140,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bergen County Academies | $110,000 | 7 | n/a |
| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation | $108,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Montgomery County Public Schools | $104,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Jericho Senior High School | $86,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology | $86,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Harker School | $86,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ossining Union Free School District | $76,000 | 8 | n/a |
| byram hills central school district | $62,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Great Neck Union Free School District | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Town of Greenwich Registrar of Voters | $58,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Syosset High School | $54,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Port Washington Union Free School District | $46,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lynbrook High School Associated Student Body | $42,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bellmore-Merrick Chsd John F Kennedy High School | $40,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bronx High School of Science Alumni Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City University of New York | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Herricks Usfd | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Roslyn High School | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Manhasset Public Schools | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of North Texas | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Plano Independent School District | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Byram Hills High School | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ward Melville High School | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yorktown Central School District | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Smithtown Central School District | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Horace Greeley High School | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Illinois Mathematics and Scie | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Howard County Public School System | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Scarsdale High School | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Science and Engineering Fair of Met | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hunter College of the City University of New York | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland State University Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado State Science Fair Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Science Fair Directors Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Science Engineering Fair of Houston Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Psis 276 | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Highland Preparatory School Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East Williston School District | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Irvine Unified School District | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jesuit High School | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Santa Cruz County Office of Education | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaska Science and Engineering Fair Incorporated | $6,800 | 1 | n/a |
| George W Hewlett High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ardsley Ufsd | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keystone School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fremont Union High School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tenafly High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cary Memorial Library | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Deerfield Elementary School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fulton County Schools | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wellington School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Amity Regional High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harrison Central School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Learning Systems of Boca Delray dba American Heritage School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stuyvesant High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heritage School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Briarcliff High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edgemont Ufsd | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boulder Valley School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nueva School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monta Vista High School | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pelham Union Free School District | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Society for Science & the Public supplied at peak.
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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 17.
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.
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)NH41.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Broadcom Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Asia Society · Action for Healthy Kids · Folds of Honor Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Round It Up America Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc
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.
About Society for Science & the Public
- How much does Society for Science & the Public give?
- Society for Science & the Public reported 22 itemized grants totaling $202,000, out of $5,124,534 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Society for Science & the Public fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (74%), Education (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%).
- Who are Society for Science & the Public's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: NYC Department of Education ($140k), Bergen County Academies ($110k), North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation ($108k).
- Does Society for Science & the Public fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Society for Science & the Public?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Broadcom Foundation, GenYOUTH Incorporated.
- Where is Society for Science & the Public based?
- Society for Science & the Public is based in DC.
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