National Credit Union Foundation
Madison, WI · EIN 39-1383650. Reported 57 grants totalling $1,239,999 to 36 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. 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. 36 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 51% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $14,585. Half of what it reported fell between $8,765 and $25,057; the smallest was $5,375 and the largest $90,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation | Plano, TX | $162,185 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Biz Kids Enterprises LLC | Seattle, WA | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New York Credit Union Foundation | Albany, NY | $115,214 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inclusiv Inc | New York, NY | $114,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| League of Southeastern Credit Unions | Tallahassee, FL | $86,378 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sce Federal Credit Union | Irwindale, CA | $57,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $48,064 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minnesota Credit Union Network Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $45,855 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gowest Foundation | Seatac, WA | $44,456 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oklahomas Credit Union | Oklahoma City, OK | $42,338 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Federal Credit Union | N Chesterfld, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montana Credit Unions League | Helena, MT | $26,550 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Credit Union League | Harahan, LA | $26,505 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ohio Credit Union League | Columbus, OH | $25,788 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Credit Union National Association Inc | Madison, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Credit Union League | Ontario, CA | $20,982 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Canopy Credit Union | Spokane, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Central Williamette Credit Union | Albany, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Credit Union Association of the Dakotas | Bismarck, ND | $19,266 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crossstate Credit Union Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $17,357 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Illinois Credit Union League | Naperville, IL | $15,740 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Allegacy Federal Credit Union | Winston Salem, NC | $15,225 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tarrant Countys Credit Union | Fort Worth, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wauna Federal Credit Union | Clatskanie, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cooperative Credit Union Association Inc | Marlborough, MA | $11,721 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Allegiance Federal Credit Union | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Consolidated Community Credit Union | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Education Credit Union | Amarillo, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State Chartered Credit Unions in Louisiana | Lake Charles, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| True Sky Fcu | Oklahoma City, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Credit Union | Lewiston, ME | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Credit Union | Chandler, AZ | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alabama Credit Union | Tuscaloosa, AL | $5,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Credit Human | San Antonio, TX | $5,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Educational Employees Credit Union | Fresno, CA | $5,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
16 of 36 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Inclusiv Network
FINANCIAL WELL-BEING GRANT - Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation
COMMUNITY INVESTSMENT FUND GRANT - Biz Kid Enterprises LLC
BIZ KID$ FINANCIAL EDUCATION - Biz Kids Enterprises LLC
BIZ KIDS FINANCIAL EDUCATION - Southeastern Credit Union Foundation
COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 of 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2 | $80,000 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $258,550 | $10,717 |
| 2023 | 20 | $396,139 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $505,310 | $18,688 |
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
18% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 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.
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 $14,585 -- 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 New York.
- 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 Credit Union Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 5 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 15 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: 4703 Madison Yards Way 300, Madison, WI, 53705.
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