Skip to content

Louisiana · Public charity

Catalyst Education Inc

To mobilize and leverage the collective expertise in education to strengthen schools, school systems, and education nonprofits to ensure equity and excellence for all kids.

$243k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2024
$234k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$19,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Catalyst Education Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$234k60%
FY20239$112k89%
FY20227$135k100%
FY20191$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$452kArts & Culture$19kPublic Benefit$19kHuman Services$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
NM
KS
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Education Agency$47,5002n/a
Urban Technology Empowered Communities$19,000114%
Parent Leadership Training Institute-Kansas City$19,0001n/a
Parent Power Lab Inc$19,00015%
Heart of America Indian Center$19,00021%
People of All Colors Succeed Organization$19,00014%
Art as Mentorship Inc$19,00023%
McEl United Inc$17,85021%
Dreams Kc$15,5001n/a
Latinos for Education Inc$15,00011%
Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Catalyst Education Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Education Agency$47,5002n/a
Urban Technology Empowered Communities$19,000114%
Parent Leadership Training Institute-Kansas City$19,0001n/a
Parent Power Lab Inc$19,00015%
Heart of America Indian Center$19,00021%
People of All Colors Succeed Organization$19,00014%
Art as Mentorship Inc$19,00023%
McEl United Inc$17,85021%
Dreams Kc$15,5001n/a
Latinos for Education Inc$15,00011%
Hope Leadership Academy$14,25011%
Northwood Academy Charter School$10,00010%
Para Los Ninos$10,00010%
Distinctive Schools of Illinois$10,00010%
Chicago Tech Academy$10,00010%
Capitol Region Education Councilfoundation Inc$7,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Catalyst Education Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Technology Empowered Communities: $19,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetParent Power Lab Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHeart of America Indian Center: $19,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPeople of All Colors Succeed Organization: $19,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetArt as Mentorship Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMcEl United Inc: $17,850 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLatinos for Education Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHope Leadership Academy: $14,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwood Academy Charter School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPara Los Ninos: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDistinctive Schools of Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Tech Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCapitol Region Education Councilfoundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Health Forward FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · New Schools Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Catalyst Education Inc with peer funders

About Catalyst Education Inc

How much does Catalyst Education Inc give?
Catalyst Education Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $234,000, out of $243,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Catalyst Education Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (91%), Arts & Culture (4%), Public Benefit (4%).
Who are Catalyst Education Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Texas Education Agency ($48k), Urban Technology Empowered Communities ($19k), Parent Leadership Training Institute-Kansas City ($19k).
Does Catalyst Education Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Catalyst Education Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Health Forward Foundation, New Schools Fund, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Where is Catalyst Education Inc based?
Catalyst Education Inc is based in LA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Catalyst Education’s filings →

More from the funding graph