National Center for Families Learning
Louisville, KY · EIN 61-1159549. Reported 44 grants totalling $1,231,753 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Center for Families Learning, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B92Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,827. Half of what it reported fell between $12,811 and $41,947; the smallest was $5,434 and the largest $85,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette County Public Schools | Lexington, KY | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Scott County Board of Education | Georgetown, KY | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thorn Hill Education Center Foundation Inc | Frankfort, KY | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bellevue Public Schools | Bellevue, NE | $60,648 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Backside Learning Center Inc | Louisville, KY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kentucky Educational Development Corporation | Ashland, KY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Louisville | Louisville, KY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mesa County Valley School District | Grand Junction, CO | $44,892 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Briya Public Charter School | Washington, DC | $43,743 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Avondale Elementary School District | Avondale, AZ | $41,947 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Somali Community of Louisville Inc | Louisville, KY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marnel C Moorman SR Fam Life Center Inc | Shelbyville, KY | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Taylor County Board of Education | Campbellsville, KY | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Literacy Center of West Michigan | Grand Rapids, MI | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Adventurous Minds Produce Extraordinary Dreams Inc | Louisville, KY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bright Beginnings Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Literacy Partners Inc | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hastings Public Schools | Hastings, NE | $28,491 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beatrice Public Schools | Beatrice, NE | $21,655 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Teachers Association | Merced, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mesa Public Schools | Mesa, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood Charter Network Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The School Board of Broward County | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oneworld Community Health Centers Inc | Omaha, NE | $19,598 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alamosa School District | Alamosa, CO | $18,920 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Millard Public Schools | Omaha, NE | $17,093 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc | Denver, CO | $16,461 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crete Public Schools | Crete, NE | $15,333 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| School District of Columbus Foundation Inc | Columbus, NE | $14,503 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Winston-Salemforsyth County Schools | Winston Salem, NC | $12,811 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Durham Public Schools | Durham, NC | $12,344 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Health Center | Louisville, KY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Murray Public Schools | Murray, KY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Fulton Family Connection | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools Chesterfield | Chesterfield, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Technical College System of Georgia | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc | Tucson, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| O'neill Public Schools | Oneill, NE | $7,880 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Floyd County Public Library | Prestonburg, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Learning Community Foundation of Douglas and Sarpy Counties | Omaha, NE | $5,434 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
3 of 41 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Scott County Board of Education
LITERACY - TOYOTA DRIVING POSSIBILITIES - Thorn Hill Education Center
LITERACY - PRESCHOOL DEVELOPMENT GRANT - Bright Beginnings Inc
LITERACY - SHARON DARLING INNOVATION FUND - Mesa Public Schools
LITERACY - TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER - Cta Mercedmariposa Uniserv Council
LITERACY - TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | $75,743 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | $50,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 8 | $370,000 | $37,500 |
| 2024 | 29 | $736,010 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
49% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,827 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Center for Families Learning's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 27 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 325 West Main Street 300, Louisville, KY, 40202.
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