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Council for Economic Education

The mission of the COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION (cee) is to equip k12 students with the tools and knowledge of personal finance and economics so that they can make better decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$56k
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$1.8MSocial Science$109k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $189,234 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $220,016 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,782 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$56,133
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$29,376
NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$24,975
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$16,950
MONTANA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$10,700
SC ECONOMICS$10,000
MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$10,000
MARYLAND COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$9,000
GEORGIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,500
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,500
ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,100
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $29k → 11%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $17k → 16%NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $42k → 14%CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $44k → 14%TEXAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC ED: $20k → 16%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $42k → 16%SC ECONOMICS: $15k → 16%FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $83k → 13%MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $30k → 10%ALABAMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $16k → 16%ECONOMICS WISCONSIN: $40k → 6%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $56k → 8%COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $26k → 12%INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL EDUCATION: $14k → 12%MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECON ED: $41k → 23%NEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 6%VIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 22%ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 11%NEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $19k → 13%MINNESOTA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 14%CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $44k → 14%TEXAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $16k → 16%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $30k → 16%SC ECONOMICS: $12k → 16%FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $56k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $94k → 8%COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $26k → 12%MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECON ED: $21k → 23%NEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 6%ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $20k → 11%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $29k → 16%FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $15k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $72k → 8%COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $15k → 12%MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECON ED: $16k → 23%NEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $13k → 6%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $18k → 16%FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $13k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $58k → 8%COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $13k → 12%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $15k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $54k → 8%OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECON EDUC: $14k → 16%FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $12k → 13%NC COUNCIL ON ECON ED: $39k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $38k → 8%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

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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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 20 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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12

Total granted

$1.7M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-16%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Social ScienceEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +194%
  • FC
    FLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $189k · revenue +115%
  • OC
    OKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $148k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • WC
    WISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -26%
  • PU
    PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $34k
  • IS
    INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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
Kansas Council On Economic Education

The vision of the kcee is that every k-12 student in kansas will become economically and financially literate. in order to reach as many students as possible, the mission of the kcee is to equip teachers to teach economics and personal…

Social Science
2
Arkansas Council On Economic Education

To equip prek-12 schools with standard-based resources and professional development to teach economics, personal finance and the free enterprise system using practical, innovative and inspirational methods.

Youth Development
3
Council for Economic Education

The mission of the council for economic education (cee) is to equip k12 students with the tools and knowledge of personal finance and economics so that they can make better decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities.…

Social Science
4
Center for Economic Accountability

To educate the public on economic issues

Community Improvement
5
National Council for Workforce Education

NCWE promotes student success and excellence in education and training by providing the link between policy and practice.

Education
6
American Public Education Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Economicsamerica Washington Council on Economic Education

EconomicsAmerica Washington Council on Economic and Financial Education is a nonprofit nonpartisan educational organization dedicated to increasing economic and financial literacy in Washington State by training teachers to sucessfully…

Education
8
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
9
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
10
New Jersey Council for Economic Education

Organization's purpose is the education of both teachers and students in the importance of economics.

Education
11
Entrepreneurship Education Consortium Inc

To cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, create practical experiences, and connect students to opportunities that advance them personally and professionally.

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12
Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education

Champion Entreneurship Education and provide Advocacy, Leadership, Networking, Technical assistance, and resouces nationally across all levels and disciplines of education, promoting quality practices and programs.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Council On Economic Education and the most unlike its peers is Financial Life Cycle Education Corp. 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 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%57%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,535

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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $410,655 · Social ScienceNORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INCFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $188,900 · Social ScienceFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INCGeorgia Council on Economic Education — $61,020 · Social ScienceGeorgia Council on Economic EducationNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $43,725 · Social ScienceALABAMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $42,340 · Social ScienceWISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $40,000 · Social ScienceTEXAS COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $35,500 · Social Science+3 more — $50,375 · Social Science+3 moreOKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $148,026 · OtherOKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $119,028 · OtherCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $79,480 · OtherCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $75,252 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $63,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLIN…NEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $52,223 · OtherNEW JERSEY COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATIONMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $50,250 · OtherMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONSOUTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $47,175 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONPURDUE UNIVERSITY — $34,459 · OtherCOUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC — $29,310 · Other+8 more — $100,505 · Other+8 moreMISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $89,834 · EducationMISSISSIPPI …ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT — $89,414 · EducationARIZONA COUN…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,950 · EducationNORTHERN ARI…FINANCIAL LIFE CYCLE EDUCATION CORP — $7,500 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · Education
Social Science$872,515Other$798,708Education$208,698

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $410,655 over 8y, 18% of budgetFLORIDA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $188,900 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $148,026 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $119,028 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $89,834 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT — $89,414 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $79,480 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $75,252 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetGeorgia Council on Economic Education — $61,020 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $50,250 over 3y, 27% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $47,175 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $43,725 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetALABAMA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $42,340 over 4y, 12% of budgetWISCONSIN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTEXAS COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $35,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN MARYLAND INC — $29,310 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMONTANA COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $26,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH — $23,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $21,475 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINANCIAL LIFE CYCLE EDUCATION CORP — $7,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetDELAWARE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $5,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Wells Fargo FoundationSpread Wings Foundati…Charles Koch Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Investor Protection T…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Wells Fargo FoundationMN20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wells Fargo Foundation · Spread Wings Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Investor Protection Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Council for Economic 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Delaware Council On Economic Education — 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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, 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 33 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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