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Ascendium Education Solutions Inc

Ascendium education solutions, inc.

$119M
Granted FY2024still arriving
287
Grants FY2024still arriving
43
States reached
$7.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$513MEmployment$66MCrime & Legal$20MHuman Services$18MSocial Science$13MCommunity Improvement$10MPublic Safety & Disaster$9.8MPhilanthropy$5.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 287 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k100 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k66 grants · $7.8M
  • $250k+96 grants · $107M
$69,250
Median grant
43
States reached
$223M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERIT AMERICA$7,560,000
MDRC$7,363,369
TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$3,557,052
LOUISIANA BOARD OF REGENTS$3,325,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES$3,274,500
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC$3,000,000
ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC$2,846,040
NEW VENTURE FUND$2,682,500
SOCIAL FINANCE INC$2,503,500
WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC$2,500,000
STATE OF OHIO$2,392,500
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC$2,372,898
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$2,364,100
JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC$2,294,402
TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE$2,118,700
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $30.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIA LOVE CONVALESCENT FUND: $25k → 13%Hope's Door Inc: $50k → 5%SUNBEAM FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%Southwestern WI Community Action Program Inc: $50k → 9%Cap Services Inc: $25k → 10%Women's League Child Dev Ctr Inc: $50k → 11%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $186k → 14%TURN AWAY NO LONGER: $25k → 15%CAROL MATHEY'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50k → 6%NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%Midstate Independent Living Consultants Inc: $25k → 10%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $160k → 16%REENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $93k → 14%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $134k → 16%REENTRY CAMPUS PROGRAM: $130k → 14%BLACK MEN TEACH: $25k → 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $29k → 16%GOODMAN CENTER: $100k → 10%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $2.5M → 16%WORKINGNATION: $70k → 14%Vera Court Neighborood Center Inc: $62k → 10%Vera Court Neighborood Center Inc: $56k → 10%United Community Center: $146k → 17%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $50k → 10%United Community Center: $131k → 17%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $180k → 16%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER: $37k → 10%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $34k → 10%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $34k → 10%2-1-1 WISCONSIN INC: $25k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE INC: $51k → 10%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $3.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $3.0M → 17%ECONOMIC MOBILITY CORPORATION: $150k → 17%ECONOMIC MOBILITY CORPORATION: $120k → 17%DEERFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER: $33k → 10%YWCA MADISON INC: $50k → 10%CHRYSALIS INC: $25k → 10%THE VILLAGE DIAPER BANK INC: $52k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $2.5M → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $180k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $100k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $50k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $25k → 10%MERIT AMERICA: $7.6M → 14%Merit America: $5.0M → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $3.0M → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $837k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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AR
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SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$620M · 345 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

345 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2024, 168 since wound down; 102 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

345
114

Total granted

$620M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

72%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • SE
    STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $268M · revenue +29% · 56% of their budget
  • MDRC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +36%
  • MA
    MERIT AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16M · revenue +437%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -70%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
  • PA
    PUBLIC AGENDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M · revenue +178% · 86% of their budget

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.

1
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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12
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vogel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentPublic Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …School District FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Food PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%57%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%9/571
the rest of the field
13%
240,387/1,818,994

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.

04the grantee network

428 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 428 of the 573 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

33
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
421/428
Grantees still filing
281/428
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $268,324,646 · Community ImprovementSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC+6 more — $8,328,344 · Community ImprovementACHIEVING THE DREAM INC — $12,515,917 · EducationACHIEVING THE DREAM I…Teachers College Columbia University — $11,320,695 · EducationTeachers College Colu…EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES — $9,066,744 · EducationEDUCATION COMMISSION …EDUCATION DESIGN LAB — $6,913,825 · EducationEDUCATION DESIGN LABARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $4,931,698 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $4,290,910 · Education+75 more — $71,736,560 · Education+75 moreMadison Area Technical College — $10,238,351 · OtherMadison Area Technical …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $6,452,216 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $5,767,875 · Other+85 more — $113,243,299 · Other+85 moreMDRC — $21,277,556 · EmploymentJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $11,588,440 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC — $4,000,000 · EmploymentPROJECT QUEST INC — $2,008,435 · Employment+3 more — $2,661,043 · EmploymentMERIT AMERICA — $16,397,000 · Human ServicesBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $6,000,000 · Human ServicesSocial Finance Inc — $2,683,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC — $2,540,000 · Human Services+1 more — $650,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $13,241,110 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $5,117,425 · Social ScienceITHAKA HARBORS INC — $3,915,066 · Social ScienceTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY — $2,746,426 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $1,435,200 · Social ScienceMIDWESTERN HIGHER EDUCATION COMPACT — $1,280,400 · Social ScienceROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $3,140,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $3,084,745 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP — $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyRockwood Leadership Institute — $943,239 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC — $750,000 · PhilanthropySEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $500,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$276,652,990Education$120,776,349Other$135,701,741Employment$41,535,474Human Services$28,270,500Social Science$27,735,627Philanthropy$10,917,984

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $268,324,646 over 5y, 56% of budgetMDRC — $21,277,556 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetMERIT AMERICA — $16,397,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $13,241,110 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC — $12,515,917 over 8y, 21% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $11,588,440 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University — $11,320,695 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES — $9,066,744 over 8y, 17% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB — $6,913,825 over 4y, 28% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC — $6,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $5,767,875 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $5,117,425 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $4,931,698 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $4,290,910 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS — $4,037,271 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $4,000,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $3,952,898 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetITHAKA HARBORS INC — $3,915,066 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CHANGE — $3,577,062 over 6y, 42% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $3,387,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $3,140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $3,084,745 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $3,038,592 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $3,000,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER — $2,894,181 over 6y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $2,888,864 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $2,765,900 over 2y, 51% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $2,758,783 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY — $2,746,426 over 4y, 75% of budgetJOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION — $2,713,440 over 4y, 44% of budgetSocial Finance Inc — $2,683,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — $2,680,200 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $2,540,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP — $2,500,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $2,490,432 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRESILIENCE EDUCATION — $2,252,125 over 2y, 62% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK — $2,190,761 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetTHE COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INC — $2,151,503 over 5y, 13% of budgetTEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $2,118,700 over 1y, 39% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $2,105,566 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT QUEST INC — $2,008,435 over 2y, 11% of budgetComplete College America Inc — $1,888,600 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetYES WE MUST COALITION — $1,802,200 over 6y, 35% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $1,639,967 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $1,606,850 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $1,542,077 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS LEARNING CENTER MANAGEMENT CORP D/B/A COMMUNITY EDUCATION COALITION — $1,526,806 over 4y, 7.4% of budget
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.

  • Who funds STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION DESIGN LAB ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICERS ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ITHAKA HARBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds NATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY ↗
  • Who funds JOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Ecmc FoundationMadison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Lumina Foundation for…Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…American Indian Highe…American Indian Colle…Strada Education Foun…Endres Manufacturing …Gates Foundation
Ecmc FoundationMN85.8× affinity64 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ecmc Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · American Indian Higher Education Consortium Inc · American Indian College Fund · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation

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 organization Ascendium Education Solutions Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 573 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines