Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,956 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($715,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $327k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $986k
- Net assets
- $389k
What National Center for Advanced Technologies Inc does
Mission
The national center for advanced technologies (ncat) was founded as a non-profit research and education foundation to provide a bridge between government, industry, and academia, and to encourage cooperative efforts on technology development. Ncat's initial years were dedicated to the development and publication of eight national strategic plans for technology development under the umbrella program key technologies for the year 2000. On completion of that program in 1992, ncat turned its efforts toward affordability initiatives. Most of these initiatives cross the conventional boundaries between government, industry, and academia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Arc program: america rocketry challenge (arc) is the world's largest student rocket competition and key piece of the aerospace and defense industry's strategy to build a stronger u.s. Workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem). Sponsored by the aerospace industries association (aia) and the national association of rocketry (nar), arc was created in the fall of 2002 as a one-time celebration of the centennial of flight, but by popular demand became an annual program. Contributions received for the arc program are donor restricted when received and released when program expenditures are incurred.
$311,786 spentof which $77,436 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $311,786.
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 2023 to 2024, from $875k to $502k (−43%).
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.
100% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Eric Fanning
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $341k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $300k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aerospace Industries Association). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC’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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
73% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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
73% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $270k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $716k 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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
20%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Aerospace Industry Association · exempt
- Aerospace Industries of America Inc Political Action Committee · exempt
- National Institute for Aerospace Studies & Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC: 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,956 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($715,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $985,956 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $715,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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