New York · Nonprofit
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP (New York) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,030,698 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($6,200,000). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 167
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship does
Mission
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship ("nfte") is a global educational nonprofit that provides high-quality entrepreneurship education to middle and high school students from under-resourced communities as well as entrepreneurship programs for college students and adult learners. Since our founding, we have educated more than a million students through in-school, out-of-school, college, and summer camp programs, offered both in person and online.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Students in nfte programs learn how to develop a business plan and how to market their business concept. Through the process of creating their own business idea, nfte students build business and academic skills, are introduced to new career paths, and learn about a wide range of jobs and occupations. They also develop their entrepreneurial mindset. Nfte students learn to think and act like entrepreneurs, demonstrating skills such as initiative and self-reliance, flexibility and adaptability, critical thinking and problem solving, communication and collaboration, creativity and innovation, opportunity recognition, and future orientation. The entrepreneurial mindset, together with the skills nfte teaches, prepares youth for college and career success. Nfte partners with schools, community groups, and youth development organizations to bring entrepreneurship education to diverse learners. Our work focuses primarily on middle and high school students in under-resourced communities. We target public school districts with free and reduced lunch (frl) eligibility rates of 50% or more, and most of our partner schools have frl rates of 70-80%. The nfte model leverages classroom teachers to…
$9,270,231 spentof which $285,272 as grants$2,322,752 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,270,231.
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 2017 to 2018, from $18M to $13M (−31%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Michael Kascmar
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $939k → $4.6M.
37 of 167 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $13M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 167 funders by total. 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
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
30% 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 NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 25% · 2019 49% · 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP is better cushioned than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $203k on record — $199k federal, $4k state.
- Department of State$199k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$4k
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 NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Nfte Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
- Ma Higher Edu Assist Corp Dba Asa · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: 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 NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
- NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP (New York) receives grants from 167 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,030,698 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($6,200,000). 104 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 167 organizations giving $33,030,698 in grants to NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 104 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
- CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP 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.
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 167 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