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NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,638 to it, the largest being PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($838,325). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What National Engineers Week Foundation does
Mission
Discovere is a coalition providing every student with a shared stem experience and the resources, programs, and connections to improve the understanding of engineering through a united voice and a global distribution network. Discovere helps stakeholders expand community and educational outreach by: providing resources and turnkey programs for employees and volunteers; supporting strong career connected learning initiatives; promoting positive visibility within the engineering and technology communities, including college students and the public-at-large. Discovere, with its working coalition of 100+ organizations, is known as one of the most effective collaborations today, recognized by corporations and engineering societies and mentioned in two reports by the national academy of engineering.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Future city program: the discovere future city competition is a project-based learning program for middle school and high school students. Students imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. More than 80,000 middle and high school students in more than 2,000 schools from 40 regions across the u.s. Join in one of the nation's largest engineering education programs and one of the most successful educational outreach programs of any kind. Notably, approx. 7,500 engineers volunteer for the competition and about 225,000 service hours are given annually to discovere programs. Future city invites students working under the guidance of teachers and volunteer engineers to build computer and three-dimensional scale models of cities of tomorrow. Students defend their designs before a panel of engineer judges and write an essay on a predetermined topic. Students begin their work in the fall and participate in regional competitions in january. First place middle school regional teams win a trip to washington, d.c. For national finals during national engineers week. Testestest
$1,620,147 spentof which $42,145 as grants$55,852 earned by the program63% of program spendingEducation outreach: engineers week - this is discovere's signature program and catalyst for volunteerism and public discussion about the future of engineering as well as for public discussion and recognition of engineer's contributions. All colleges of engineering in the u.s. Celebrate engineers week and it is part of a multitude of workplace cultures. A new engineers week theme each year helps drive the look and content for volunteer resources, media messages and special events. In reality, engineers week outreach occurs over several months. Chats with change makers - our series "chats with change makers" hosted by a high school student, introduces students to stem professionals who are working hard to change the world. Teachers and parents invited to tune-in along with their students to met an engineer and ask questions.
$654,668 spent26% of program spendingIntroduce a girl to engineering: introduce a girl to engineering is a time when volunteers, educators, and others act as role models, facilitate engineering activities, and show girls and boys how engineers change our world. Discovere's despite the odds research found that this simple formula helps students develop an interest in engineering, builds their confidence in their problem-solving skills, and creates a stem identity.
$234,260 spent9% of program spendingWorld engineering day: while many countries celebrate their own national engineering days, weeks, or months through the year, discovere launched the first annual global day of the engineer in 2016 as a way to collectively recognize engineers worldwide. In 2020, this global celebration was renamed world engineering day as a joint venture with unesco and wfeo to highlight engineers' achievements around the world and improve the public understanding of the importance of engineering and technology.
$42,766 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,551,841.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+48%).
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.
95% of NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kathy Renzetti
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $176k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Society of Professional Engineers Education Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION’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 ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 42% · 2022 49% · 2023 85% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION: 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 ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,638 to it, the largest being PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($838,325). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,390,638 in grants to NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION?
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $838,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FOUNDATION 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.
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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing