GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

National Conference on Citizenship

Washington, DC · EIN 52-0698385. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,327,765 to 76 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

76organizations funded
$12,750median reported grant
$1,327,765granted, 2020-2023
3%of grantees funded again the next year
7%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 76 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 3% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $12,750. Half of what it reported fell between $8,250 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $87,882. 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
30 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
34 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
16 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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
Allegany Community College Foundation IncCumberland, MD$87,882112022
Minnesota State College Student Association IncW Saint Paul, MN$42,750112020
Alabama a & M University FoundationNormal, AL$41,000222021
New PublicOakland, CA$40,909112023
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$39,127112020
The Andrew Goodman Foundation IncNew York, NY$38,500112020
University of Maine System IncBangor, ME$36,396112020
Common Cause Education FundWashington, DC$34,000112020
University of North GeorgiaDahlonega, GA$33,000112020
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$30,160212020
Aliento Education FundPhoenix, AZ$30,000112020
University of Florida Foundation IncGainesville, FL$28,920112020
Queens University of CharlotteCharlotte, NC$26,000112020
Elon UniversityElon, NC$25,100112020
Democracy North CarolinaMorrisville, NC$25,000112020
Georgia ShiftAugusta, GA$25,000112020
Henry Ford Community College FoundationDearborn, MI$25,000112020
Pirg New Voters Project IncBoston, MA$25,000112020
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityGreensboro, NC$22,050112020
Elizabeth City State University FoundationElizabeth Cty, NC$22,000112020
Clark Atlanta University IncAtlanta, GA$21,200222021
Florida Institute for Reform & Empowerment Dba Organize Fl Education FundOrlando, FL$20,000112020
Project Pericles IncNew York, NY$20,000112020
Marquette UniversityMilwaukee, WI$19,512112020
Agnes Scott CollegeDecatur, GA$18,000112020
University of Wisconsin - MilwaukeeMilwaukee, WI$17,700112020
University of OklahomaNorman, OK$17,030112020
Center for Civic Justice at Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook, NY$16,800112020
Indiana UniversityDetroit, MI$16,211112020
Central Lakes College FoundationBrainerd, MN$16,000112020
Western Carolina UniversityCullowhee, NC$15,549112020
Weber State UniversityOgden, UT$15,417112020
Bowdoin CollegeBrunswick, ME$15,000112020
Forward Mt FoundationMissoula, MT$15,000112020
Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI$15,000112020
Metropolitan State University of DenverDenver, CO$14,850112020
State University of Iowa FoundationIowa City, IA$14,600112020
Kean University Foundation IncUnion, NJ$14,000222021
Northampton County Area Community College FoundationBethlehem, PA$13,304222021
Columbia College ChicagoChicago, IL$12,868112020
University of Wisconsin SystemMilwaukee, WI$12,805112020
Lincoln UniversityJefferson Cty, MO$12,750112020
President & Trustees of Colby CollegeWaterville, ME$12,500112020
New Georgia Project IncorporatedAtlanta, GA$12,250112020
Winona State UniversityWinona, MN$12,000112020
CircadiumPhiladelphia, PA$11,000112020
President and Trustees of Bates CollegeLewiston, ME$11,000112020
St Marys College of CaliforniaMoraga, CA$11,000112020
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation IncCharlotte, NC$10,750112020
Lincoln UniversityLincoln Univ, PA$10,750112020
Shippensburg UniversityShippensburg, PA$10,100112020
Data & Society Research InstituteNew York, NY$10,000112020
Independence Community CollegeIndependence, KS$9,617112020
Cedar Crest CollegeAllentown, PA$9,595112020
Arizona State UniversityTempe, AZ$9,566112020
Civic NationWashington, DC$9,500112020
Rogers State UniversityClaremore, OK$9,500112020
Fort Hays State UniversityHays, KS$9,000112020
Iowa State University of Science & TechnologyAmes, IA$8,871112020
Kennebec Valley Community CollegeFairfield, ME$8,500112020
Wichita State University Union CorporationWichita, KS$8,500112020
Rector & Visitors of the University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA$8,250112020
Benedictine UniversityLisle, IL$8,000112020
Miami Dade College Foundation IncMiami, FL$8,000112020
Passaic County Community College FoundationPaterson, NJ$8,000112021
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$7,825112020
Grand Valley State UniversityAllendale, MI$7,316112020
Fair Elections CenterWashington, DC$7,250112020
New College Foundation IncSarasota, FL$6,500112020
The University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX$6,385112020
Warren Wilson CollegeSwannanoa, NC$6,100112020
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA$6,000112020
Maricopa County Community College District FoundationTempe, AZ$6,000112020
Rabble MillLincoln, NE$6,000112020
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus LifeDetroit, MI$5,500112020
University of Central Arkansas Foundation IncConway, AR$5,250112021

4 of 76 (5%) 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 3 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 43 of 76 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
31 orgs
Civil Rights
3 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Science & Technology
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202073$1,159,724$12,868
20216$39,250$6,000
20221$87,882$87,882
20231$40,909$40,909

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

11% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. 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.

North Carolina
$153K
Georgia
$117K
Pennsylvania
$100K
Michigan
$99K
Maryland
$88K
New York
$85K
Maine
$83K
Minnesota
$71K

Down to the city

Cumberland, MD
$88K
New York, NY
$68K
Washington, DC
$51K
Philadelphia, PA
$50K
Milwaukee, WI
$50K
W Saint Paul, MN
$43K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund44 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc36 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc33 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program27 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust25 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation24 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 $12,750 -- 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 North Carolina.
  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.

Related guides

Foundations funding education in North CarolinaEvery funder in this group, ranked

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from National Conference on Citizenship'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 1 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: 601 13TH Street Nw 12TH Fl 78, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 52-0698385 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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