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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,124,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS - ATTACHED$2,124,800
02The need
03

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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JANNUS INC: $27k → 8%Rural Dynamics Inc: $20k → 14%Oregon Assoc Educ Young Child: $7k → 8%ALASKA CHILDRENS TRUST: $20k → 22%Metropolitan Family Services: $20k → 14%Rural Dynamics Inc: $7k → 14%OREGON ASK: $55k → 8%Voices for Georgias Children: $7k → 13%Alaska Childrens Trust: $7k → 22%Metropolitan Family Services: $7k → 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

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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 19 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
45

Total granted

$14M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+30%

Still filing today

79%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +89%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $220k · revenue +16%
  • AC
    ARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL EXCELLENCE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +37% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • N4
    National 4-H Council
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +21%
  • MM
    Maine Mathematics & Science Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $428k · revenue +172%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $267k · revenue +12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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 Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
3
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
4
Council of Chief State School Officers

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.

Education
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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7
Out Teach

Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…

Education
8
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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10
Child Welfare League of America

Child welfare league of america engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices, and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Human Services
11
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afterschool Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 67 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)
49/49
Grantees still filing
40/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS - ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $10,755,222 · OtherVARIOUS - ATTACHED SCHEDULEVARIOUS - ATTACHED: $2,124,800 · OtherVARIOUS - ATTACHEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $534,150 · Other+20 more: $1,120,874 · Other+20 moreAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $1,006,020 · Youth DevelopmentAFTERSCHOOL A…National 4-H Council: $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H …GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $266,982 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS O…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC: $105,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $190,686 · Youth Development+5 moreMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $428,378 · EducationMaine Math…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 · EducationWEST VIRGI…ENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $200,000 · EducationENVISION E…ARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL EXCELLENCE INC: $140,000 · EducationARIZONA CE…Techbridge Girls: $116,023 · EducationTechbridge…PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $80,000 · EducationNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 · EducationSOUTH CAROLINA AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $69,000 · EducationINDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC: $62,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS AFTERSCHOOL PARTNER- SHIP INC: $62,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $62,000 · Education+7 more: $220,327 · Education+7 moreOREGON ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHIL: $62,000 · Human ServicesJANNUS INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesRURAL DYNAMICS INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $27,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $27,000 · Human ServicesVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $62,000 · Arts & CultureTHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $10,000 · PhilanthropySave The Children Federation Inc: $67,000 · InternationalVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC: $62,000 · International
Other$14,535,046Youth Development$2,318,688Education$1,734,728Human Services$177,000Arts & Culture$167,000Philanthropy$160,000International$129,000

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 budgetAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $1,006,020 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMaine Mathematics & Science Alliance: $428,378 over 1y, 21% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $266,982 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENVISION EXCELLENCE IN STEM EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR AFTERSCHOOL EXCELLENCE INC: $140,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $116,023 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTECHNOVATION: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $69,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $67,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHIL: $62,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC: $62,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetINDIANA AFTERSCHOOL NETWORK INC: $62,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEXPLORA SCIENCE CENTER & CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALBUQUERQUE INC: $62,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFTERSCHOOL PARTNER- SHIP INC: $62,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $62,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew York State Network for Youth Success: $55,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUtah Afterschool Network: $55,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IOWA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $55,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJANNUS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRURAL DYNAMICS INC: $27,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Association of United Ways Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES COUNCIL OF FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIGNITE AFTERSCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS PARTNERSHIP FOR OUT OF SCHOOL TIME: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION NEW MEXICO: $10,686 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUMBLEHOME INC: $8,220 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 …Afterschool AllianceNational Youth Leader…Broadcom FoundationThe David and Lucile …Gates FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Overdeck Family Found…Esb Charitable Founda…The Wallace FoundationGeorgetown University
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to STEM Next Opportunity Fund?

Find your warmest path to STEM Next Opportunity Fund 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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home