How much did Alliance for Education grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of Alliance for Education’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

elementary

2020

—

2021

programingbeacon hillsouth shoreptaelementary

2022

orcaptsaconnectionssouth shorerainierbeacon hillpta

2024

parentsteacherschildrenimportantbuildingelementary pta

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $76k
$50k–250k1 grant · $242k
$250k+2 grants · $1.5M

$21,783

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

Seattle Public Schools$1,094,674
University of Washington$419,733
Southeast Seattle Education Coalition$241,717
Highland Park Elementary PTA$21,783
Concord Elementary PTA$21,667
Friends of Roxhill Elementary$19,909
Sanislo Elementary PTA$12,769

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 16 repeat orgs$981k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -1% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$663k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%

-5%

Still filing today

50%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SP
Seattle Public Schools
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M
UO
University of Washington
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M
JS
John Stanford International School PTSA
2× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue 0%

Funded once

CO
City of Seattle
one grant, 2019 · $217k
FO
Friends of Hawthorne
one grant, 2017 · $170k · revenue -49%
OV
Olympic View PTA
one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mountain View Pta

To serve the children and their families in the Puyallup School District community by being a resource for families, funding positive programs in the school and advocating for the education and wellbeing of all the children.

Education

Grant Cea Pta

PTA serving elementary school, providing resources for teachers, students and families

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Lake Shore Elementary Pta

We are a PTA organization for Lake Shore Elementary in Vancouver, WA - our raised funds go back to the school through events and donations.

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Scotts Ridge Elementary School Pta

To support and enhance the educational experience of students by fostering cooperation between parents, teachers and school staff. The PTA provides volunteer and financial support for educational programs, classroom resources, school evens…

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John Rogers Elementary Pta

To provide student enrichment/education, community support programs, and student support/education grants to the students and families at John Rogers Elementary in Seattle, Washington.

Education

Langley Education Campus Ptsa

We are a parent and teacher member organization for a public elementary school.

Education

Madrona P T S a Seattle Council

PTSA Supporting Madrona Elementary School

Education

Lake Washington Hs Ptsa

LWHS PTSA was formed to provide an organized way for parents to aid children in the school community.

Education

Glencoe Elementary Pta

Glencoe Elementary School PTA is a parent teacher association which supports and enriches the educational opportunities of the students by means of support for teachers and administrators, student programs, and parent education.

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Kokanee Elementary Pta

Kokanee Elementary PTA strived to support the education, health and welfare of all children.

Education

Firgrove Pta Puyallup Washington

To support the education, health and well being of all children and youth.

Education

Escuela Key Elementary Pta

The PTA supports all aspects of Escuela Key Elementary.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olympic View Elementary Pta and the most unlike its peers is Washington First Robotics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

12%

1,487/12,705

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

5/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$12,882,396Education$823,075

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Beacon Hill PTA 6-15-42WA20.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beacon Hill PTA 6-15-42 · Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Alliance for Education funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Magnolia Elementary PTA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~33 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841756051 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Magnolia Elementary PTA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 33 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Alliance for Education through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Alliance for Education

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alliance for Education?

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Alliance for Education

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alliance for Education?

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