THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U50Z

Classification

2000

Street

230 GRAND AVE STE 101

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• Science Education Outreach: Science Education Outreach: Our Science Education Outreach program worked to provide professional development opportunities to teachers around the country focused on its curriculum, Story Shorts, which are modular, flexible standards-aligned units of practice, and on its DataWISE science and media literacy tool and associated NCSE-developed activities. (Continued at Schedule O.)

  Expenses $440,277

• Communications: NCSE is the go-to source for the public generally, and the news media in particular, for up-to-date information on threats to the integrity of the science classroom and proactive solutions to helping students better understand climate science and evolution. In 2025, we launched a podcast that focused on educating the public to dispel common misconceptions about climate change and evolution. Over two seasons and 17 episodes, the podcast was downloaded 18,000 times. (Continued at Schedule O.)

  Expenses $292,734

• Catalyzing Action: Our longest-tenured program, Catalyzing Action monitors state and local actions affecting science education and is the go-to source for the public generally, and the news media in particular, for up-to-date information on threats to the integrity of the science classroom. (Continued at Schedule O.)

  Expenses $112,110

• Investigating Science Education: In 2025, the Investigating Science Education program started to unpack the results of its 2024 survey of public school science educators addressing not only evolution and climate change but also the nature of science, published a book chapter offering a synoptic discussion of challenges to evolution and climate change education in the United States, and published two articles on evolution acceptance in collaboration with a team of outside researchers.

  Expenses $64,632

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,470,847

  Expenses

  $1,492,717

  Contributions

  $2,345,062

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,339,637

  Expenses

  $1,594,107

  Contributions

  $1,248,192

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,400,615

  Expenses

  $1,567,836

  Contributions

  $1,295,482

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,488,859

  Expenses

  $1,596,538

  Contributions

  $1,434,445

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,022,565

  Expenses

  $1,334,281

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,557,179

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,332,992

  Expenses

  $1,378,745

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,826,075

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,149,870

  Expenses

  $1,519,896

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,734,227

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,660,083

  Expenses

  $1,293,999

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,822,311

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,290,187

  Expenses

  $1,301,861

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,703,497

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,657,585

  Expenses

  $1,253,128

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,544,388

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,166,973

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,116,540

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,078,965

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,128,458

• 2010 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,123,788

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,912,421

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $359,250

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $112,153

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $100,090

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $60,193

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $36,225

  2022 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $34,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $33,200

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $30,759

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $24,260

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $16,503

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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