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Society for Science & the Public
Washington, DC · EIN 53-0196483. Reported 94 grants totalling $872,000 to 50 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. For Society for Science & the Public, the IRS classifies it under science & technology rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE U030) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 58% 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 $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $28,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronx High School of Science | Bronx, NY | $66,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bergen County Academies | Hackensack, NJ | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics Foundation | Durham, NC | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ossining High School | Ossining, NY | $46,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Harker School | San Jose, CA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Syosset High School | Syosset, NY | $38,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greenwich High School 1 | Greenwich, CT | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paul D Schreiber High School | Port Washington, NY | $28,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Montgomery Blair High School | Silver Spring, MD | $26,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| William a Shine Great Neck South High School | Great Neck, NY | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jericho Ufsd Jericho Senior High School | Jericho, NY | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bellmore-Merrick Chsd John F Kennedy High School | North Merrick, NY | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Byram Hills Central School District | Armonk, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Herricks High School | New Hyde Park, NY | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Byram Hills Csd Byram Hills High School | Armonk, NY | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | Andover, MA | $18,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lynbrook Hs Association Student Body Lynbrook High School | San Jose, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Manhasset Ufsd Manhasset High School | Manhasset, NY | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Roslyn Ufsd Roslyn High School | Roslyn Heights, NY | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Plainvew Old Bethpage Csd Plainview-Old Bethpage John F Kennedy High Scho | Plainview, NY | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Saratoga High School - Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union Hs District | Saratoga, CA | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Scarsdale High School | Scarsdale, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Bronx High School of Science Alumni Foundation Inc | Bronx, NY | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Science Fair Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Science Fair Directors Institute | Millcreek, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canyon Crest Academy Foundation Inc | San Diego, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Horace Greeley High School | Chappaqua, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hunter College High School | New York, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jesuit High School | Portland, OR | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Plano West Senior High School | Plano, TX | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Wheatley School | Old Westbury, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair Inc | Cambridge, MA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Cruz County Office of Education | Santa Cruz, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Heritage School | Plantation, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heritage School Boca-Delray | Delray Beach, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ardsley Ufsd | Ardsley, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Briarcliff High School | Briarcliff Manor, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harrison Central School District - Harrison High School | Harrison, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy | Aurora, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millburn High School | Millburn, NJ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milton High School | Milton, GA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pelham Memorial High School | Pelham, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tenafly High School | Tenafly, NJ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Nueva School | Hillsborough, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wellington School | Columbus, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 50 (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.
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
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What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 9 of 50 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 | 20 | $202,000 | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $218,000 | $6,000 |
| 2023 | 27 | $250,000 | $8,000 |
| 2024 | 22 | $202,000 | $8,000 |
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
48% 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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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 $8,000 -- 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 Society for Science & the Public'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 22 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: 1719 N St Nw, Washington, DC, 20036.
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