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NCSEA FOUNDATION INC

NCSEA FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,500 to it, the largest being APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$212k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$54k
Net assets
$343k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Ncsea Foundation Inc does

Mission

The ncsea foundation supports the nonprofit activities of the national council of structural engineers associations (ncsea) and its member organizations in order to advance the structural engineering profession through techical development, education, and outreach.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide scholarships and assistance to ensure the future structural engineering profession is supportive and inclusive of all, through the diversity in structural engineering scholarship program and providing young member scholarships to cover the costs of attending ncsea's annual structural engineering summit.

    $128,750 spentof which $128,750 as grants
    65% of program spending
  2. Advocate to grow awareness of the profession and its contributions to society while supporting structural engineering associations (sea) in enhancing their local communities through developing content aimed at building owners, developers, and architects, as well as the sea grant program designed to assist member sea organizations in growing their associations and promoting the structural engineering field through innovative initiatives.

    $18,500 spentof which $18,500 as grants
    9% of program spending
  3. Support innovation by guiding the adoption of technology and services that will innovate the profession and enabling research to advance technical and code-related development through providing education, fostering innovation, promoting collaboration, and addressing industry challenges related to artificial intelligence.

    $51,234 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    26% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,484.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2022 Revenue 156 ($83k) Expenses 359 ($35k) Net assets 190 ($102k)2023 Revenue 258 ($138k) Expenses 862 ($84k) Net assets 292 ($156k)2024 Revenue 612 ($328k) Expenses 1201 ($117k) Net assets 684 ($367k)2025 Revenue 396 ($212k) Expenses 2408 ($235k) Net assets 641 ($343k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (396)Expenses (2408)Net assets (641)Peer revenue range

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 $156k to $367k (+134%).

$54k
$102k
$156k
$367k
$343k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of NCSEA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’21
$48k
’22
$54k
’23
$210k
’24
−$23k
’25
1.5
months of
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

Alfred Spada

Executive director (via peos)

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed1011
Joined·+2
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Council of Structural Engineers Associations Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NCSEA FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NCSEA FOUNDATION INC’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

NCSEA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 NCSEA FOUNDATION INC.

42%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

58% of NCSEA FOUNDATION INC'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. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NCSEA FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 8%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

51%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • National Council of Structural Engineers Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NCSEA FOUNDATION INC?
NCSEA FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,500 to it, the largest being APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NCSEA FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $53,500 in grants to NCSEA FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of NCSEA FOUNDATION INC?
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NCSEA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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