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Center for Black Educator Development

To ensure there will be equity in the recruiting, training, hiring, and retention of quality educators who both reflect the cultural background and share the common socio-political interests of the students they serve.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$346k
Largest
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 FY20232025.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$80kYouth Development$25k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $845,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,198,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $353,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $445k
  • $250k+1 grant · $346k
$80,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC-UNCF$345,505
CITYTUTOR DC$80,000
PROJECT SANKOFA$80,000
MAN UP TEACHER FELLOWSHIP$80,000
WATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION$80,000
TEACHPLUS-PA$75,000
BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE$50,000
EMPOWERED$46,500
TEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS EVERYWHERE INC$8,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PROJECT SANKOFA: $80k → 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.

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 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
Teachers Like Me

The mission of Teachers Like Me TLM is to recruit, develop and retain Black teachers. TLM is focused on two groups of people: college of education graduates from partner universities and high school students to receive a bachelor's degree…

Youth Development
2
Black Teacher Collaborative

To engage, develop, and support a collective of black educators who will ensure that black children achieve at high levels academically while simultaneously preparing them with the intellectual, social, emotional, and cultural capital to…

Education
3
Black Men Teach

Black Men Teach (BMT) recruits, prepares, places, and retains Black male teachers in elementary schools by building a robust pathway to the teaching profession.

Human Services
4
Black Male Educators Alliance

Our mission is to develop effective culturally responsive educators who cultivate learning partnerships and grow independent thinkers into change agents for their communities.

Education
5
National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators

Fellowship for Black and Latino males that springboards them into principal, senior level, and C-suite roles, increasing the number, longevity, and impact of Black and Latino males in the education sector.

Education
6
Teaching Matters Inc

Teaching matters is a national professional learning organization dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness, a critical factor in student success. from states and districts to schools and classrooms, we partner to help teachers and…

Education
7
Utd Teaching Excellence Foundation Inc
Education
8
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
9
The Fellowship Bmec Inc

The fellowship: black male educators for social justice is a professional membership and activist organization dedicated to advancing the recruitment, development and retention of black male educators in schools throughout greater…

10
Brothers Liberating Our Communities Inc

Brothers Liberating Our Communities (BLOC) provides an equity lens and justice based approach to teacher retention and development, helping schools create environments where all students achieve and obtain the opportunities they deserve.…

Education
11
City Teaching Alliance Inc

City teaching alliance's mission is to prepare highly effective teachers who significantly accelerate student achievement in the nations' highest need schools.

Education
12
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Leaders of Color Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teachers Supporting Teachers Everywhere Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $595,505 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCNATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS — $100,000 · EducationNATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDSUrban Ed Academy — $100,000 · EducationUrban Ed AcademyMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $80,000 · EducationMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INCCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $80,000 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $80,000 · EducationWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATIONTEACH PLUS INC — $75,000 · EducationTEACH PLUS INCTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 · EducationEMPOWERED — $46,500 · Education+3 more — $46,000 · EducationProject Sankofa Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY KIDZ R US ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $9,213 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,253,005Human Services$80,000Youth Development$25,000Other$10,000Arts & Culture$9,213

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 budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $595,505 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Ed Academy — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $80,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $80,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWATTS OF POWER FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $80,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMPOWERED — $46,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBLACK GIRLS LOVE MATH — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $9,213 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FundCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Center for Black Educator Development 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 18%
  • Delaware State University18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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