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Explore organizations and programs supporting civic science across fields and geographies.
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About the index
The Civic Science Funding Index is an evolving mapping project tracking and archiving the flow of grants shaping the practice of civic science.
The index documents support for public engagement, science communication, science outreach, informal science education, participatory science, and related scholarship and practice. Records are drawn from publicly available funder websites, grant databases, annual reports, press releases, and information shared directly by funders.
Follow grant flows
Examine awards, recipients, investigators, locations, years, and represented funding amounts.
Track community outlook
Follow how funders, grantees, scholars, and practitioners view the funding environment.
Understand nonprofit trajectories
Review the financial paths of organizations engaging communities with science.
Civic Science Funding Index
Individual Grants
Explore individual awards supporting civic science, including available dates, descriptions, locations, funding amounts, recipient organizations, investigators, programs, and fields.
All grant records
Awards over time
Number of grants documented by award year
Awards by U.S. state
Number of grants documented by awardee state
Funders
Funding programs by number of grants
Grants
| Funder | Awardee | Year | PI | Amount | Description |
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Funding landscape
Funders
Browse organizations and programs that have historically supported or currently support civic science scholarship and practice.
Funder types
Distribution across documented funders
Nonprofit trajectories
Organization Financials
Follow the financial trajectories of nonprofit organizations engaging communities with science, using publicly available IRS Form 990 data. Changes are calculated year-over-year (Y/Y) from each organization’s latest available reporting periods.
Revenue and expenses
Nominal values by fiscal year · Select a legend item to show or hide it
Community outlook
Funding Sentiment
Track how funders, grantees, scholars, and practitioners view the near-term civic science funding environment on a 0–100 scale.
Latest recorded sentiment
0 = Bearish · 50 = Neutral · 100 = Bullish
Based on available responses
Sentiment over time
Average sentiment index by quarter
Response distribution
How respondents described the funding environment
Who responded
Respondents are asked to share whether they are a grantmaker, a grant applicant, or both. Responses are shown by quarter.
No respondent information available.
Funding is expected to decline; confidence is low or challenges are growing.
Funding is expected to remain broadly stable in the near term.
Funding is expected to rise; confidence and momentum are growing.
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Insights
Reporting and analysis informed by data and trends documented in the Civic Science Funding Index.
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Methodology
How records are collected
This mapping effort began in 2022 and continues to evolve as new funders, awards, and organizations emerge across the civic science ecosystem.
Sources reviewed
Public funder websites, grant databases, annual reports, press releases, and information shared directly by funders.
Inclusion criteria
Records are included when their primary purpose supports public engagement with science, science communication, outreach, informal STEM education, participatory science, or science-policy interfaces.
Data structure
The mapping schema is adapted from the NSF grants database. Available fields vary by source and record.
Ongoing review
Records are continuously reviewed and updated as additional public information becomes available.
Data sources
An experimental, evolving archive
The information presented is derived from publicly available sources and data shared directly by funders. The index is intended as a navigation and research resource rather than a complete accounting of every civic science award. Missing or incomplete fields reflect the information available in the underlying source.
Submit a correction or additional data →The CSF Index was conceived and designed by Fanuel Muindi.