Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING
NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,753 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($241,591). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $261k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining does
Mission
Ncdmm is a tax-exempt charitable organization engaging in scientific research, operating a technology research center, and otherwise helping support the machining and manufacturing needs of government, businesses and the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Promote emerging additive manufacturing research and technologies while working with institute members and industry to help the domestic manufacturing sector resume its prominence in the global economy.
$81,163,097 spentof which $1,308,149 as grants70% of program spendingAssistance to united states organizations in maintaining a technological superiority in defense systems through the use of cost-effective machining and manufacturing processes, training, and technology implementation.
$34,784,184 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,947,281.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $20M (+63%).
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 83% · 2018 79% · 2019 83% · 2020 72% · 2021 92% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (36% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Dean L Bartles Phd Fsme Fas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING’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 DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING.
“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
NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 29 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 29 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $911.9M on record.
- Department of Defense$906.2M
- Department of Commerce$5.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$300k
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING
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
97% 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
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Advanced Manufacturing and Applied Research Innovation Institute · disregarded
- Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Integration Center · disregarded
- El Paso Makes · disregarded
- Advanced Manufacturing International Inc · exempt
- Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING: 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 DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,753 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($241,591). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $260,753 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $241,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING 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.
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 2 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