National Writing Project Corporation
Berkeley, CA · EIN 94-3130846. Reported 127 grants totalling $9,159,668 to 78 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. For National Writing Project Corporation, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A76Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 78 distinct organizations, with 56% 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.
- How much its list changes. 44% 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 $24,136. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $5,148,156. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $5,148,156 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Inverness Institute | Inverness, CA | $230,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $160,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $138,368 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $137,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Drew University | Madison, NJ | $109,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Afro American History Inc | Boston, MA | $91,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Mountain Writing Project | Birmingham, AL | $86,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Coastal Bend Writing Project | Corpus Christi, TX | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Illinois Writing Project | Chicago, IL | $84,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $84,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $77,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation | Arcata, CA | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Greater Kansas City Writing Project | Warrensburg, MO | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Long Island Writing Project | Garden City, NY | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Oklahoma Writing Project | Norman, OK | $73,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 826 New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Musicological Society Inc | New York, NY | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arts & Literature Laboratory Inc | Madison, WI | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Birmingham Civil Rights Institute | Birmingham, AL | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boise State University Writing Project | Boise, ID | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Rural Strategies Inc | Whitesburg, KY | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chico State Enterprises | Chico, CA | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dayton Society of Natural History Dayton Museum of Natural History | Dayton, OH | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| East Side Freedom Library | Saint Paul, MN | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friens of Homestead National Monument of America | Diller, NE | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Heritage Museum of Orange County | Santa Ana, CA | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hindman Settlement School Inc | Hindman, KY | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Bedford Historical Society | New Bedford, MA | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Oklahoma State University Writing Project | Stillwater, OK | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society | San Francisco, CA | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southern Arizona Writing Project | Tucson, AZ | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The National Public Housing Museum | Chicago, IL | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ulster County Historical Society | Stone Ridge, NY | $69,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Maryland Writing Project | College Park, MD | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Top-of-the-Mitt Writing Project | Petoskey, MI | $68,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Litarts Ri | Providence, RI | $66,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg, MS | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Japanese American Historical Society Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Miami University | Oxford, OH | $46,100 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City Center for Collaborative Learning | Tucson, AZ | $43,112 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Digital Nest Inc | Watsonville, CA | $41,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New Door Ventures | San Francisco, CA | $41,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| P F Bresee Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $41,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| TIMBUK2 Academy LLC | West Trenton, NJ | $41,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Oai Inc | Park Forest, IL | $35,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Northwest Arkansas Writing Project | Fayetteville, AR | $30,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Madison Writing Project | Madison, WI | $23,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Red River Valley Writing Project | Fargo, ND | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $20,832 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boston Writing Project | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Oregon Writing Project at Southern Oregon University | Ashland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Piedmont Voices Writing Project | Greensboro, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Shenandoah University | Winchester, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upstate Writing Project | Clemson, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Flint Hills Writing Project | Emporia, KS | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Business and Career Services Incorporated | Wheeling, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yellowstone Writing Project | Bozeman, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Elk River Writing Project | Billings, MT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arkansas Delta Writing Project | State University, AR | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Central Arizona Writing Project | Tempe, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| East Texas Writing Project | Texarkana, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Endless Mountains Writing Project | Mansfield, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Great Valley Writing Project | Turlock, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Morehead Writing Project | Morehead, KY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northern Virginia Writing Project | Fairfax, VA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ohio University Appalachian Writing Project | Athens, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Antonio Writing Project | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| San Juan College Retiree Health Tr | Farmington, NM | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
41 of 78 (53%) 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.
- Community Initiatives
FISCAL SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENT DIRECT MODEL A - The Inverness Institute
GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS - Bay Area Writing Project
GRANTS TO WRITING PROJECTS TO SUPPORT LOCAL AND NATIONAL PROGRAMS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 78 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 | 39 | $740,956 | $8,000 |
| 2021 | 53 | $2,352,536 | $34,500 |
| 2022 | 29 | $794,020 | $34,500 |
| 2023 | 6 | $5,272,156 | $28,400 |
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
65% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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
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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 $24,136 -- 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 California.
- 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 Writing Project Corporation'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 6 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: 2930 Domingo Ave - 1073, Berkeley, CA, 94705.
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