· Public charity
Techforce Foundation
To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $123,648 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,710,841 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,587,193 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k11 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $36,838 |
| TECHNOLOGY AND MAINTENANCE COUNCIL ATA | $25,000 |
| BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| I-CAR COLLISION REPAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION | $5,810 |
| SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| MIAMI VALLEY CAREER TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $5,500 |
| MADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,500 |
| FRESNO USD ERMA DUNCAN POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| GREEN TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $5,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCATION (FASE) | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS TRUCKING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- ATAMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $63k · revenue +12%
- ACAUTO CARE ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +48%
- ICI CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $12k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ASARIZONA SCIENCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +45%
- RNROADTRIP NATION LTD2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +39%
- HRHOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -41%
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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The automotive training center equips its graduates with the necessary skills to pursue their dreams of an automotive career path, college graduation, and business ownership.
Aacte elevates education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
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Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roadtrip Nation Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Steam Sports Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 Northbridge College Success Program ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROADTRIP NATION LTD ↗
- Who funds AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds I CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAR CARE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS TRUCKING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Steam Sports Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Techforce Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.