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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,816 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($72,816). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What National Institute of Statistical Sciences does
Mission
To strengthen and serve the national statistics community by conducting cross-disciplinary research on topics and issues of global importance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Statistical analysis - conducts cross-disciplinary statistical research on topics and issues of national and global importance, such as education, health, transportation, government census and surveys, data confidentiality, electrical power grids, forensic sciences, and economics.
$686,081 spent$784,342 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe affiliates consist of approximately 50 government agencies, corporations, and universities. The organization conducts activities for its affiliates in the areas of research, information dissemination, human resources, and networking.
$45,089 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $731,170.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $6.4M to $5.8M (−9%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Tim Hesterberg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $54k → $11k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES’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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES is better cushioned than half of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- Department of Education$5.1M
- Department of Agriculture$3.5M
- National Science Foundation$75k
- Department of Labor$70k
- Department of Energy$20k
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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES: 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 INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,816 to it, the largest being Cornell University ($72,816). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $83,816 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES?
- Cornell University is the largest funder on record, with $72,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2020–2025), 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