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PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$110k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$0
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Partnership for 21st Century Skills does

Mission

P21's mission is to serve as a catalyst for 21st century learning to build collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders so that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in a world where change is constant and learning never stops.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

Educate and inform governments, school systems and the public about the importance of 21st century skills.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($808k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($116k)2018 Revenue 14 ($110k) Expenses 14 ($146k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018
Revenue (14)Expenses (14)Net assets (0)

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 $182k to $0 (−100%).

$182k
$0
20172018
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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$213k
’17
−$36k
’18
1.7
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.

20172018
Listed1412
Joined·+0
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $70k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
Start Earlyunclassified
$35k
funders
1
2

From the IRS filings of PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS’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

PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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

59%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

IL
MI
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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 PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS?
PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,000 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS?
THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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