National Council for Air and Stream
Cary, NC · EIN 13-1085344. Reported 97 grants totalling $5,447,603 to 51 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 14% 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. 63% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $33,250. Half of what it reported fell between $15,240 and $75,767; the smallest was $5,974 and the largest $330,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $781,626 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Council of the Paper Ind for Air & Stream Improvement Inc | Cary, NC | $639,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $488,399 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Natureserve | Arlington, VA | $488,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $327,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mississippi State University | Ms State, MS | $236,032 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Forestech International LLC | Watkinsville, GA | $231,567 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $220,378 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| US Forest Service | Portland, OR | $219,756 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Forestech International LLC | Watkinsville, GA | $112,375 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anthesis LLC | Boulder, CO | $108,145 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baylor University | Waco, TX | $104,848 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation | Arcata, CA | $100,398 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $97,998 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Agricultural Research Foundation | Corvallis, OR | $83,676 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lakind Associates LLC | Catonsville, MD | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $74,914 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Creekwalker Aquatics | Kalamazoo, MI | $64,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kino Mountain Productions LLC | Apex, NC | $58,382 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anthesis LLC | Boulder, CO | $57,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Maine Foundation | Orono, ME | $54,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $46,001 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Georgia | Athens, GA | $42,381 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lakind Associates LLC | Baltimore, MD | $41,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hach Company | Chicago, IL | $38,042 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Climate Common | Georgetown, ME | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Creekwalker Aquatics | Philomath, OR | $31,675 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Maine System Inc | Bangor, ME | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| H&h Ecological Analysts | Athens, GA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kennedyjenks Consultants | Portland, OR | $23,384 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Benthic Aquatic Research Svcs | Lawrence, KS | $22,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kb Eastern | Phoenix, AZ | $19,827 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Conservation Biology Institute Inc | Corvallis, OR | $19,058 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Benthic Aquatic Research Svcs | Lawrence, KS | $18,325 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arbor Custom Analytics | Bangor, ME | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Insight Exposure & Risk Sciences Group | Boulder, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arcadis US Inc | Chicago, IL | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Duluth, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Minnesota Duluth Education Association Umdea | Duluth, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| C2AN Consulting | Marne on Saint Croix, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Molecular Research Lp | Shallowater, TX | $6,590 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sanders Engineering & Analytical Services Inc | Semmes, AL | $6,052 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Burns Epidemiology Consulting LLC | Sanford, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ghd Services Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ghd Services Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ramboll US Corporation | Arlington, VA | $5,974 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
25 of 51 (49%) 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.
- Ncasi Foundation
TECHNICAL WORK TO IMPROVE THE SCIENCE AND RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS REVIEWS; BREEDING, STOPOVER, AND WINTERING HABIT OF BIRDS; MANAGEMENT SERVICE AGREEMENT - Oregon State University
EFFECTS OF RIPARIAN MANAGEMENT ON AQUATIC FOOD WEBS AND WATER QUALITY; COMPARING WILDLIFE AND FOREST MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON WATER QUALITY AND FISH IN HEADWATERS ECOSYSTEMS AT HINKLE CREEK, BIODIVERSITY IN NATURAL AND MANAGED EARLY SERAL FORESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGAN; BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER DEMOGRAPHIC RATES IN AN UNDERSTUDIED HABITAT: UNBURNED CONIFER FOREST - Natureserve
NATURESERVE MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LICENSE - Uga Research Foundation Inc
GOPHER TORTOISE MOVEMENTS/POPULATION DYNAMICS,POLLINATOR HABITAT RELATIONSHIPS IN WORKING FORESTS,LANDSCAPE-LEVEL MODELING OF WINTER BAT HABITAT ON MANAGED FOREST LANDS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN COASTAL PLAIN, AND ROUNDWOOD WET STORAGE TASK - Forestech International LLC
LOBLOLLY PINE WEIGHT & VOLUME CONSORTIUM MULTI-YEAR STUDY - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AREA ESTIMATIONS (SAE) TECHNIQUES, HABPLAN PROJECTS, PROCESS-BASED APPROACH TO QUANTIFY MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON FOREST SOIL CARBON STOCKS, BIOMETRICAL RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF ENTITY-SCALE GREENHOUSE GAS GUIDELINES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 of 51 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $707,691 | $61,000 |
| 2021 | 29 | $1,457,855 | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $1,761,972 | $31,600 |
| 2023 | 26 | $1,520,085 | $35,500 |
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
25% of its giving went to organizations in Oregon. 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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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 $33,250 -- 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 Oregon.
- 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 Council for Air and Stream'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 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 8 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: 1513 Walnut Street Suite 200, Cary, NC, 27511.
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