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National Center for Women and

Boulder, CO · EIN 68-0591481. Reported 82 grants totalling $15.0M to 69 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

69organizations funded
$14,375median reported grant
$15.0Mgranted, 2020-2023
16%of grantees funded again the next year
64%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For National Center for Women and, the IRS classifies it under youth development rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE O53) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 69 distinct organizations, with 64% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 16% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,375. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $62,347; the smallest was $5,800 and the largest $3,172,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
34 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
10 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of Colorado FoundationDenver, CO$9,592,495442023
Grand Circus DetroitDetroit, MI$1,266,400222021
Flatirons SchoolNew York, NY$520,031222021
University of California Irvine FoundationIrvine, CA$500,000112020
KIPP FoundationSan Francisco, CA$394,206112020
Digital Harbor Foundation IncBaltimore, MD$350,000112020
Georgia Tech Foundation IncAtlanta, GA$253,550112021
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$239,860112020
University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, AL$176,700222021
Georgia Tech Research CorporationAtlanta, GA$170,848112023
University of Texas at El PasoEl Paso, TX$149,484112020
Neo Philanthropy IncNew York, NY$123,272112020
Innovate BirminghamBirmingham, AL$118,200222021
Information Technology Senior Management Forum IncAtlanta, GA$100,000112020
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$90,000112020
Rector & Visitors of the University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA$77,050222021
FORTYX80 IncPittsburgh, PA$68,750332023
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$62,347112020
Tech Elevator IncCleveland, OH$56,688222021
TechbirminghamBirmingham, AL$55,240222021
New York UniversityNew York, NY$50,000112020
University of Maryland College Park Foundation IncCollege Park, MD$40,000112020
Mobi Boot Camp CorpTroy, MI$36,800112020
Modern Figures IncGainesville, FL$36,577112021
Power of Cs IncSan Francisco, CA$30,200112020
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$23,680112020
Jefferson State Community CollegeBirmingham, AL$20,370112020
College of St Scholastica IncDuluth, MN$20,000112020
Georgia Gwinnett College FoundationincLawrenceville, GA$20,000112020
Sigao StudiosBirmingham, AL$19,992112020
Sigao StudiosBirmingham, AL$17,493112021
Regents of the University of California at San DiegoLa Jolla, CA$16,530222021
Morehouse CollegeAtlanta, GA$15,000112023
American Association of University Women Greensboro BranchGreensboro, NC$12,500112020
Austin Community CollegeAustin, TX$10,000112020
Birmingham-Southern CollegeBirmingham, AL$10,000112020
Columbus State UniversityColumbus, GA$10,000112020
County College of Morris FoundationRandolph, NJ$10,000112020
Duke UniversityDurham, NC$10,000112023
Fayetteville State UniversityFayetteville, NC$10,000112020
George Washington UniversityAshburn, VA$10,000112020
Kansas Wesleyan UniversitySalina, KS$10,000112020
Kean University Foundation IncUnion, NJ$10,000112022
L S U FoundationBaton Rouge, LA$10,000112020
Lord Fairfax Community CollegeMiddletown, VA$10,000112020
Michigan Tech FundHoughton, MI$10,000112020
Nc State Engineering Foundation IncRaleigh, NC$10,000112021
New Mexico Tech University Research Park CorporationSocorro, NM$10,000112020
North Carolina Central University Foundation IncDurham, NC$10,000112020
Randolph CollegeLynchburg, VA$10,000112020
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY$10,000112020
Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
University of Illinois FoundationChampaign, IL$10,000112023
University of Nebraska FoundationLincoln, NE$10,000112020
University of North Carolina CharlotteCharlotte, NC$10,000112022
University of UtahSalt Lake City, UT$10,000112020
Winthrop University FoundationRock Hill, SC$10,000112020
Auburn UniversityAuburn University, AL$9,000112020
Calvin UniversityGrand Rapids, MI$9,000112020
Friends Foundation of the Birmingham Public LibraryBirmingham, AL$9,000112020
STEM ImpressionistsAshburn, VA$9,000112020
Per Scholas IncBronx, NY$7,600112020
Girl Scouts of the Green and White MountainsBedford, NH$7,000112020
Appalachian State UniversityBoone, NC$6,000112020
Family Life CenterWyandanch, NY$6,000112020
Litas for GirlsScottsdale, AZ$6,000112020
West Virginia Univ Foundation IncMorgantown, WV$6,000112020
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional SchoolWest Windsor, NJ$6,000112022
Women Advancing Tomorrow's TechnologistsSeattle, WA$5,800112020

10 of 69 (14%) 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.

It also reported 20 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 69 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
33 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Employment
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202057$6,678,687$10,000
202114$2,795,633$32,963
20225$2,160,995$10,000
20236$3,405,348$21,250

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

64% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. 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.

Colorado
$9.6M
Michigan
$1.4M
New York
$957K
California
$941K
Georgia
$569K
Alabama
$436K
Maryland
$390K
Pennsylvania
$169K

Down to the city

Denver, CO
$9.6M
Detroit, MI
$1.3M
New York, NY
$693K
Atlanta, GA
$539K
Irvine, CA
$500K
Birmingham, AL
$427K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc25 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc25 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund24 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America17 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund16 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,375 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
  4. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from National Center for Women and's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 8 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: University of Co Campus Box 417 Ucb, Boulder, CO, 80309.

EIN 68-0591481 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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