How much did THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

rural remoteremote planningunderstandingstem fiscalteachingrighteducators

2020

stem fiscalachieveeducators

2021

equityjusticerightinterdependentadvocate educationaleducational professionalsprofessionals unite

2022

ibervillemiddleteachingengageactivitiespursuitleadership

2023

mikva challengeleadershipimprovingissuestrainingstudentsright

2024

learningaction advancehealthdeltaprimarycollectivelittle rock

2025

drivestudents membersstepspecialplanningracialcorporation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $168k
$50k–250k7 grants · $919k

$58,500

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF LITTLE ROCK CO LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS$225,000
AEH COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES CENTER INC$225,000
BATESVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT$150,000
INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRATIC ED IN AMERICA$130,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI$66,000
JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE ALLIANCE$64,500
CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$58,500
RURAL COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$45,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT PINE BLUFF$34,000
GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION$24,000
ARKANSAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$20,000
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER$15,000
WEST TALLAHATCHIE SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
THE NAMIE FOUNDATION INC$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 31% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.4M · 25 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.4M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+10%

Still filing today

84%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthCivil RightsOther

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

NP
NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND
4× · 2018–2022 · $540k · revenue +179%
AC
AEH COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES CENTER INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +44%
NATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR
4× · 2021–2024 · $446k · revenue +72%

Funded once

GS
GREELEY-EVANS SCHOOL DISTRICT 6
one grant, 2018 · $295k
AF
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS
one grant, 2018 · $272k · revenue -8%
FB
FIRST BOOK
one grant, 2018 · $244k · revenue -14%

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

04Your field

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.

North Carolina Assoc of Educators Inc

To be the voice of educators in north carolina that unites, organizes, and empowers members to be advocates for educational professionals,public education and children.

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Nebraska State Education Association

The mission of nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, empowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.

Employment

Arkansas Association of Educational

Education

—

Association of American Educators

To promote and assist teachers and administrators in pursuing excellence in primary and secondary education.

Community Improvement

Columbus Education Association

Teacher representation

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Maine Education Association

Public education labor advocacy.

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Association of American Educators Founda

The Association of American Educators Foundation promotes and assists teachers and administrators in pursuing excellence in primary and secondary education.

Unclassified

Oklahoma Education Association

To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the people of oklahoma to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

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Network for Public Education Action Inc

The organization's goal is to fight to preserve, promote, improve and strengthen our public school system, an essential institution in a democratic society. the organization will accomplish this by networking groups and organizations…

Education

National Association for the Education

The national association for the education of young children (naeyc) is a professional membership organization, founded in 1926, whose mission is to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by…

Education

Arlington Education Association

Aea is a well respected educational authority in arlington county, virginia, on public education in arlington county that promotes the interests of its members and the students they serve.

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Delaware State Education Association

Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students. the mission of dsea is to protect and extend the humane and professional rights of its members and promote excellence in education for…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Network of State Teachers of and the most unlike its peers is New Venture Fund. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/56

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,509

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

31/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,787,079Education$1,954,559Philanthropy$533,000Health$450,000Community Improvement$349,500Environment$321,700Public Benefit$244,000

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.

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.

National Education Association of TheDC39.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of The · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Schott Foundation for Public · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · New Venture Fund · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc

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 organisation THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 481035353 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Nea Foundation for the Improvement?

Find your warmest path to The Nea Foundation for the Improvement through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Nea Foundation for the Improvement?

More from the funding graph

THE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Nea Foundation for the Improvement?

More from the funding graph