New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($235,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $122k
What National Center for Science and Civic Engagement does
Mission
Public Science education and support of faculty, instructors, and student researchers to improve community well-being, health, and civic engagement with science related challenges. Primary audience is higher ed faculty, community-based researchers, and informal STEM educators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
5 National professional development workshops in 2025, 3 webinars, publication of a Journal for science educators, material support (lab and equipment expenses) for community-based student and faculty research through grant support. One US based lab training workshop and equipment subsidy for Fellows. Dissemination of curricular innovation and best practices through 12 conference presentations, 3 faculty mentoring workshops, 5 websites, one national conference, social media. Participant community served is currently 3900 faculty, administrators, and informal science educators.
$52,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $145k to $195k (+34%).
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.
26% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15 → $90k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’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 SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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 SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: 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 SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($235,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $235,054 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), 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