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Cambiar Education

Cambiar's vision is to spark creative change by scaling bold ideas that undeniably prove that every student can succeed and thrive.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$389k
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 FY2018–2024.

Education$11MCommunity Improvement$2.8MInternational$250kYouth Development$190kHealth$175kEnvironment$125kEmployment$125kScience & Tech$47kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 52 grants below total $4,092,592 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,285,341 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $192,749 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $564k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $937k
$62,500
Median grant
19
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ContigoED$388,923
Learner-Centered Collaborative$297,650
The Big Picture Company dba Big Picture Learning$250,000
EL Education$181,334
City Year$180,000
High Resolves America$142,600
Schoolhack Solutions (dba LiFTLearning)$130,000
Teach for America$125,000
America Succeeds$125,000
Global Impact$125,000
TalkingPoints$125,000
Tides Center$106,950
Study Group Solutions Inc$100,000
InnovateEDU Inc$100,000
The Flight School$100,000
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 (FY24–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Edward Charles Foundation: $65k → 14%Tides Center: $107k → 10%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

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 34 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
12

Total granted

$12M
$768k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

71%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentEmploymentScience & TechOther

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

  • U
    UndauntedK12
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +18% · 66% of their budget
  • CE
    Contigo Ed Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +301% · 46% of their budget
  • B2
    BUILDING 21
    2× · 2023–2024 · $291k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • DF
    DREAMS FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -97%
  • TH
    The History Co-Lab Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue +41%
  • MT
    MASTERY TRANSCRIPT CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -19%

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
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
2
Ilearn Collaborative

ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…

Education
3
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
4
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
5
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
6
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
7
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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8
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
9
Center for the Future of Learning

The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
12
New Teacher Center

New teacher center (ntc) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving outcomes for all students by accelerating teacher and school leader effectiveness. from preschool through high school, (continued on schedule o)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nxut. 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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%18%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%40%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 40% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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

52 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. 52 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Edsolutions LLC — $6,347,823 · OtherEdsolutions LLCCITY YEAR INC — $290,120 · Other+21 more — $1,778,025 · Other+21 moreContigo Ed Inc — $1,049,438 · EducationContigo Ed IncLEARNER-CENTERED COLLABORATIVE — $297,650 · EducationLEARNER-CENTERED COLLABORATIVEBUILDING 21 — $290,650 · EducationBUILDING 21THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $250,000 · EducationTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANYTeach for America Inc — $250,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTALKINGPOINTS — $250,000 · EducationTALKINGPOINTSEL EDUCATION INC — $181,334 · Education+27 more — $1,973,685 · Education+27 moreUndauntedK12 — $1,080,421 · EnvironmentVillage Of Wisdom — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentFamily Engagement Lab — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentOwnership Is The Future Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNXUT — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGlobal Impact — $250,000 · InternationalTIDES CENTER — $106,950 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $65,375 · Human ServicesAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $125,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$8,415,968Education$4,542,757Environment$1,080,421Youth Development$315,000International$250,000Human Services$172,325Arts & Culture$125,000

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 budgetUndauntedK12 — $1,080,421 over 2y, 66% of budgetContigo Ed Inc — $1,049,438 over 2y, 46% of budgetLEARNER-CENTERED COLLABORATIVE — $297,650 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $290,650 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $290,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY — $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGlobal Impact — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC — $181,334 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAMS FOR KIDS — $150,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHIGH RESOLVES AMERICA — $142,600 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetThe History Co-Lab Inc — $140,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICA SUCCEEDS — $125,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetVillage Of Wisdom — $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY DESIGN COLLABORATIVE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMASTERY TRANSCRIPT CONSORTIUM — $125,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFamily Engagement Lab — $125,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN — $125,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetSOUTHWEST CREATIONS COLLABORATIVE — $125,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $106,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES — $106,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATEEDU INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTUDY GROUP SOLUTIONS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFlight School Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE ABILITY CHALLENGE INCORPORATED — $81,235 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $65,375 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK MALE EDUCATORS ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamilies in Action for Quality Education — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPEN WAY LEARNING — $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budget50CAN INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH BEND EMPOWERMENT ZONE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMMSCHOOLS — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDistrict of Columbia International School — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEUPHEMIA L HAYNES PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOwnership Is The Future Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $35,650 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAngels For Angels — $35,650 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGETTING SMART COLLECTIVE — $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

New Schools FundGates FoundationCarnegie Corporation …Walton Family Foundat…The William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…WK Kellogg FoundationRobin Hood FoundationKnowledgeworks Founda…Overdeck Family Found…Charles and Helen Sch…
New Schools FundCA36.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Gates Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Knowledgeworks Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab 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 Cambiar 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report 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 66 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.

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