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· Public charity

Techforce Foundation

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

$1.7M
Granted FY2019
13
Grants FY2019
11
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2019 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $123,648, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,710,841 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,587,193 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k11 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
$5,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,500
GREEN TECHNOLOGY CENTER$5,500
FRESNO USD ERMA DUNCAN POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL$5,500
SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE$5,500
MIAMI VALLEY CAREER TECHNOLOGY CENTER$5,500
ARKANSAS TRUCKING ASSOCIATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCATION (FASE)$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MESA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $37k → 11%ROADTRIP NATION LTD: $40k → 10%FRESNO USD ERMA DUNCAN POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 19%MADERA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6k → 22%BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 28%SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $6k → 13%GREEN TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $6k → 17%STEAM SPORTS FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCATION (FASE): $5k → 7%MIAMI VALLEY CAREER TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $6k → 14%HOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW: $10k → 7%AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $60k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCATION (FASE): $5k → 7%CAR CARE COUNCIL CO WOMEN IN AUTO CARE: $6k → 8%NORTHBRIDGE COLLEGE SUCCESS PROGRAM: $47k → 11%CAR CARE COUNCIL CO WOMEN IN AUTO CARE: $6k → 8%NORTHBRIDGE COLLEGE SUCCESS PROGRAM: $45k → 11%AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE AFTERMARKET FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%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

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 7 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$215k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+45%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AT
    AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $63k · revenue +12%
  • AC
    AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +48%
  • CC
    CAR CARE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AS
    ARIZONA SCIENCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +45%
  • RN
    ROADTRIP NATION LTD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • HR
    HOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -41%
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
The Foundation of the Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Association

The foundation's mission is to support educational initiatives that help ensure wisconsin maintains a highly skilled transportation workforce.

Education
2
Automotive Service Association

To advance professionalism and excellence in automotive service through education, representation, and member services.

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3
Alliance for Automotive Innovation Inc

To represent the common interests of its members and provide a forum to enable them to advance public policies that meet consumer and societal needs for cleaner, safer, and smarter personal transportation that helps transform the u.s.…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

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…

Education
6
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Aacte elevates education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.

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7
American Council of Engineering Companies

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.

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8
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
9
Automotive Training Center Corporation

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.

Human Services
10
National Association for College Admission Counseling

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

Education
11
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
12
Asphalt Institute Inc

Through education, engineering, technical development, environmental stewardship and marketing leadership, the asphalt institute promotes the safe use, benefits, and quality performance of petroleum asphalts in a unified voice for our…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is I Car Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Northbridge College Success Program. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC: $62,500 · OtherAMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INCROADTRIP NATION LTD: $40,000 · OtherROADTRIP NATION LTDMesa Public School District: $36,838 · OtherMesa Public School DistrictARKANSAS TRUCKING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STEM EDUCAT: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $32,500 · Other+6 moreNorthbridge College Success Program: $92,563 · EducationNorthbridge College Success Pr…HOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationHOT RODDERS OF TOMORROW FOUNDA…Steam Sports Foundation Inc: $7,500 · EducationSteam Sports Foundation IncARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $59,731 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE …AUTO CARE ASSOCIATION: $15,810 · Community ImprovementI CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCAR CARE COUNCIL INC: $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$191,838Education$110,063Arts & Culture$59,731Community Improvement$27,810Public Safety & Disaster$12,000Philanthropy$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

For Inspiration and R…Fidelity Investments …
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 →

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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 Techforce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Techforce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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