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Techforce Foundation

To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.

$1.7M
Granted FY2019
13
Itemized grants FY2019
13
Organizations funded FY2019
62%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$124k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$36,838
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
11
Total assets, FY2019
$5.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 62% of the organizations Techforce Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Community ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY201913$124k62%
FY20189$122k67%
FY20175$164kn/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 2019.

Education$180kEmployment$84kScience & Tech$60kArts & Culture$40kCommunity Improvement$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEnvironment$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northbridge College Success Program$92,5632n/a
American Trucking Associations Inc$62,50030%
Arizona Science Center$59,73111%
Roadtrip Nation Ltd$40,00021%
Mesa Public School District$36,8381n/a
Auto Care Association$15,81020%
I Car Education Foundation$12,00020%
Car Care Council Inc$12,0002n/a
Arkansas Trucking Association Inc$10,00020%
Foundation for Advanced STEM Educat$10,00023%
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All grantees of Techforce Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northbridge College Success Program$92,5632n/a
American Trucking Associations Inc$62,50030%
Arizona Science Center$59,73111%
Roadtrip Nation Ltd$40,00021%
Mesa Public School District$36,8381n/a
Auto Care Association$15,81020%
I Car Education Foundation$12,00020%
Car Care Council Inc$12,0002n/a
Arkansas Trucking Association Inc$10,00020%
Foundation for Advanced STEM Educat$10,00023%
Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Steam Sports Foundation Inc$7,5001n/a
Bronx Community College Foundation Inc$7,50011%
Miami Valley Career Technology Center$5,5001n/a
Greene Technology Center$5,5001n/a
Fresno Unified School District$5,5001n/a
The School Board of Broward County$5,5001n/a
Madera Unified School District$5,5001n/a
University of the Aftermarket Foundation$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Techforce Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Trucking Associations Inc: $62,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Science Center: $59,731 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRoadtrip Nation Ltd: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAuto Care Association: $15,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI Car Education Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArkansas Trucking Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Advanced STEM Educat: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHot Rodders of Tomorrow Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBronx Community College Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of the Aftermarket Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 10.

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)NH14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Techforce Foundation

How much does Techforce Foundation give?
Techforce Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $123,648, out of $1,710,841 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Techforce Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (44%), Employment (20%), Science & Tech (15%).
Who are Techforce Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Northbridge College Success Program ($93k), American Trucking Associations Inc ($63k), Arizona Science Center ($60k).
Does Techforce Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Techforce Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Techforce Foundation based?
Techforce Foundation is based in AZ.

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 19 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $7.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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