Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION
21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,018 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($1,054,860). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $151k
What 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education does
Mission
The 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education is a non-profit organization that works both nationally and internationally with governments, institutions of higher education, school districts and other education entities to transform education, empower learners,and improve lives by advancing literacy and achievement in purpose driven science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The u.s. Agency for international development (usaid) contract provided 21pstem with the opportunity to pioneer an 18-step design process to create a fully integrated advanced stem high school curriculum for the egyptian ministry of education. The curriculum is backward designed from eleven grand challenges and utilizes related semester capstone projects. Twenty-0ne model stem high schools have been established. In addition, 21stem has co-developed five new stem teacher preparation programs at five egyptian universities involving the creation of 180 new courses involving 870 egyptian professors
$672,550 spent$811,003 earned by the program33% of program spendingThe u.s. National science foundation (nsf) directorate for stem education works to develop a well-informed citizenry and a diverse and capable workforce of scientists. Technicians, mathematicians and educators. Directorate for stem education sponsors programs that support the development of models and strategies for providing all students with access to high quality stem
$89,470 spent$116,276 earned by the program4% of program spendingEIR- Student Engagement through Standards-Based Grading is a five-year research project funded by the US Department of Education. Our intervention makes Standards-Based Grading -clear feedback, additional learning, and full-credit reassessment- practical at scale in middle school mathematics classrooms.
$1,169,567 spent$1,438,725 earned by the program57% of program spending21pstem has fee for service contracts with various organizations to conduct stem education research and improvement projects
$120,940 spent$155,483 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,052,527.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $473k (−59%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 93% · 2019 96% · 2020 88% · 2021 79% · 2022 78% · 2023 85% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $673k → $171k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
58% of 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.9M on record.
- Agency for International Development$25.2M
- Department of Education$10.0M
- National Science Foundation$735k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION?
- 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,018 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($1,054,860). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,958,018 in grants to 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION?
- DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,054,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 21ST CENTURY PARTNERSHIP FOR STEM EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing