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· 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.
$149k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants
6
Communities
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of Catalyst Education Inc’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
2019
latino
2022
educational issues
2023
educational issues
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Urban Technology Empowered$19,000
- People of All Colors$19,000
- Heart of America Indian$12,500
- Texas Education Agency$12,500
- Art as Mentorship$12,000
- McEL United Inc$11,100
- New Mission High School$10,000
- Oakland Unified SD$9,000
- Capitol Region Education$7,000
02The need
04
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 (FY22–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 64% of those 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 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
Chicago Education Partnership
To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…
Education
2
Multicultural Academy Charter School
It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…
Education
3
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Education
4
Chicago Collegiate Inc
To equip all students in grades five through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
Education
5
Arizona Latino Leaders in Education
We exist to ensure that individuals from the communities most impacted by education inequities are the ones making decisions for all students
Education
6
Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School
Academia cesar chavez acc is dedicated to providing quality dual language education that prepares critical thinking, socially competent, values driven, and culturally aware bilingual and bi literate learners by advocat
Education
7
School Boards for Academic Excellence
To restore academic excellence and parental rights in the american education system by building a national network of state-based organizations and school board members dedicated to reforming policies and practices that improve student…
Civil Rights
8
Elite Public Schools
The organization's mission is to ensure all students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning…
Education
9
Drew Charter School Inc
Drew charter school educates, nurtures and empowers all students to achieve their full potential as part of an exemplary, innovative, and equity-centered community. the charter school employs a steam (science, technology, engineering,…
Education
10
Institute for Latino Progress
Charter schools, career pathways, adult education, citizenship, and youth development
Human Services
11
School Leader Lab
We partner with leaders to disrupt racism, inspire staff, and champion rigorous learning.
Human Services
12
Cesar Chavez Public Charter School
To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Technology Empowered Communities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$138,887Education$71,000Human Services$52,600
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.
- Who funds People of All Colors ↗
- Who funds Urban Technology Empowered ↗
- Who funds Latinos for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart of America Indian ↗
- Who funds McEL United Inc ↗
- Who funds Para Los Ninos ↗
- Who funds Chicago Tech Academy ↗
- Who funds Northwood Academy Chrtr Schl ↗
- Who funds Distinctive Schools of IL ↗
- Who funds Capitol Region Education ↗
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.
Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Catalyst Education 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
04Through 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: Urban Technology Empowered.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 822593896 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 Urban Technology Empowered, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Catalyst Education Inc?
Find your warmest path to Catalyst Education Inc 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.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines