California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION
NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,246,945 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,607,902). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $812k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $52k
What National Writing Project Corporation does
Mission
The National Writing Project Corporation seeks to improve the teaching of writing as a voluntary support system for the core staff of the national writing project, a fiscally sponsored project of community initiatives, that engages a national group of leading educators to improve the teaching of writing and learning. Individuals associated with the nwp corporation seek to provide advice, connections, and feedback in service of continuing the tradition of excellence established by the national writing project and its national network of local sites and lead teachers. For more information about the national writing project and its continuing program activities, please see the statement of program service accomplishments, part iii, section 4a.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nwp is a national network of 162 university-based local sites. Co-directed by faculty from the university and k-12 schools, each nwp site develops a leadership cadre of local educators through intensive invitational and advanced institutes. Together with local partners, these lead educators design and deliver customized professional development programs in the teaching of writing and the role of writing in learning for schools, districts, higher education institutions, libraries, museums, and after-school programs. Across the national network, nwp sites recruit and prepare roughly 2,200 new teacher-leaders each year and work with roughly 1,700 schools across the country and numerous individual teachers who avail themselves of nwp's online programming. On an annual basis, nwp sites generate 80,000 hours of intensive professional development for districts and online communities, reaching 6 million students per year. Over the 50 years of its development, the nwp has created a signature model of inquiry-driven professional development that includes examining best practices, engaging in the discipline under study, developing strategies to meet the literacy needs of individual students,…
$6,285,542 spentof which $5,272,156 as grants$550,048 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,285,542.
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 $5.9M to $84k (−99%).
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 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 65% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 28% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Chief executive
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
Exec dir./CEO (term 12/31/2023)
Board chair
Brian Wong
Board chair (term 12/31/2023)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $139k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION’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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 53% · 2019 41% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 49% · 2023 49% — 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
40% of NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION's revenue fell 92% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.
- Department of Education$3.6M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$3.1M
- Department of the Interior$644k
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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: 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 WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION?
- NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,246,945 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,607,902). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $6,246,945 in grants to NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,607,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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