How much does STEM Next Opportunity Fund give?

STEM Next Opportunity Fund reported 1 grants totaling $2,124,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does STEM Next Opportunity Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (83%), Youth Development (12%), Science & Tech (1%).

Who are STEM Next Opportunity Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Afterschool Alliance ($1.0M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($534k), National 4-H Council ($500k).

Does STEM Next Opportunity Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as STEM Next Opportunity Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Afterschool Alliance, National Youth Leadership Council.

Where is STEM Next Opportunity Fund based?

STEM Next Opportunity Fund is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

STEM Next Opportunity Fund

Making out-of-school STEM opportunities a reality for millions of young people to help them thrive in STEM and beyond.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2024: 1
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $2,124,800
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,124,800
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 39; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $5.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations STEM Next Opportunity Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechOther

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	1	$2.1M	100%
FY2023	1	$6.4M	0%
FY2022	1	$4.3M	100%
FY2020	39	$1.7M	56%
FY2019	17	$814k	76%
FY2018	15	$1.1M	93%
FY2017	14	$2.7M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$18MYouth Development$2.7MScience & Tech$312kArts & Culture$117kEmployment$107kPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Afterschool Alliance	$1,006,020	4	9%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$534,150	2	n/a
National 4-H Council	$500,000	1	1%
Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance	$428,378	1	21%
Girl Scouts of the United States of America	$266,982	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America	$250,000	1	0%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc	$220,000	3	0%
Envision Excellence in STEM Education Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc	$140,000	2	44%
BGC of Garden Grove	$133,800	1	n/a

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All grantees of STEM Next Opportunity Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Afterschool Alliance	$1,006,020	4	9%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$534,150	2	n/a
National 4-H Council	$500,000	1	1%
Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance	$428,378	1	21%
Girl Scouts of the United States of America	$266,982	1	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America	$250,000	1	0%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc	$220,000	3	0%
Envision Excellence in STEM Education Inc	$200,000	1	4%
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc	$140,000	2	44%
BGC of Garden Grove	$133,800	1	n/a
Techbridge Girls	$116,023	2	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove Inc	$105,000	2	1%
Technovation	$100,000	1	4%
University of Washington	$92,919	1	n/a
Public School Forum of Nc Inc	$80,000	2	2%
National Summer Learning Association Inc	$75,000	1	3%
South Carolina Afterschool Alliance	$69,000	3	7%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$67,000	1	0%
Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil	$62,000	2	9%
Vermont Afterschool Inc	$62,000	2	6%
Indiana Afterschool Network Inc	$62,000	2	5%
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit	$62,000	2	n/a
Explora Science Center & Children's Museum of Albuquerque Inc	$62,000	1	1%
Massachusetts Afterschool Partner- Ship Inc	$62,000	2	8%
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc	$62,000	2	0%
New York State Network for Youth Success	$55,000	1	7%
Utah Afterschool Network	$55,000	1	5%
School's Out Washington	$55,000	1	0%
The Iowa Children's Museum	$55,000	1	4%
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation	$55,000	1	0%
Girl Scouts of Northern California	$50,000	1	0%
Aim High for High School	$50,000	1	0%
The Tech Interactive	$50,000	1	0%
National AfterSchool Association Inc	$34,607	1	n/a
Foundation for California Community Colleges	$32,500	1	0%
New York Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
Jannus Inc	$27,000	1	0%
Rural Dynamics Inc	$27,000	2	3%
Arkansas State University	$27,000	2	n/a
Alaska Children's Trust	$27,000	2	1%
Metropolitan Family Services	$27,000	2	0%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$27,000	1	n/a
Michigan Association of United Ways Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Children's Services Council of Florida Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Ignite Afterschool	$20,000	1	6%
University of Maine System Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Texas Partnership for Out of School Time	$20,000	1	3%
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Board of the University of Alabama	$20,000	1	n/a
Institute for Science Education New Mexico	$10,686	1	9%
Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties	$10,000	1	0%
Reuben H Fleet Science Center	$8,500	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$8,250	1	n/a
Tumblehome Inc	$8,220	1	2%
San Diego County Office of Education	$7,500	1	n/a
Fresno County Superintendent of Schools	$7,500	1	n/a
Orange County Superintendent of Schools	$7,500	1	n/a
Voices for Georgia's Children Inc	$7,000	1	0%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center	$7,000	1	0%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

STEM Next Opportunity Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 45.

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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.

Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMI54.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Afterschool Alliance · National Youth Leadership Council · Broadcom Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gates Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Esb Charitable Foundation · The Wallace Foundation · Georgetown University

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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About STEM Next Opportunity Fund

How much does STEM Next Opportunity Fund give?: STEM Next Opportunity Fund reported 1 grants totaling $2,124,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does STEM Next Opportunity Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (83%), Youth Development (12%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are STEM Next Opportunity Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Afterschool Alliance ($1.0M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($534k), National 4-H Council ($500k).
Does STEM Next Opportunity Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as STEM Next Opportunity Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Afterschool Alliance, National Youth Leadership Council.
Where is STEM Next Opportunity Fund based?: STEM Next Opportunity Fund is based in CA.