· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS - ATTACHED | $2,124,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +89%- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $220k · revenue +16%
- ACARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL EXCELLENCE INC2× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +37% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- N4National 4-H Councilone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +21%
- MMMaine Mathematics & Science Alliancegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $428k · revenue +172%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $267k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Ccsso through leadership, advocacy and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an american education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afterschool Alliance and the most unlike its peers is New York Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 67 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 AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOVATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHIL ↗
- Who funds INDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFTERSCHOOL PARTNER- SHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Utah Afterschool Network ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds New York State Network for Youth Success ↗
- Who funds THE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization STEM Next Opportunity Fund 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.
- Massachusetts Afterschool Partner- Ship Inc — 82% of income from government
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Oregon Association for the Education of Young Chil — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
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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