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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MSocial Science$109k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $189,234, the rows itemized in this filing. The $220,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,782 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,500
GEORGIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,500
ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
MN
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WI
MI
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IN
OH
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CA
CO
NE
VA
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AZ
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NC
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TX
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

20
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
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +214%
  • 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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Council On Economic Education

To provide Virginias K-12 students with the economic knowledge and financial skills needed to thrive in our dynamic economy by providing professional development and classroon resources to all Virginia K-12 teachers who teach economics and…

Social Science
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Center for Economic Accountability

To educate the public on economic issues

Community Improvement
6
National Council for Workforce Education

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

Education
7
American Public Education Foundation
Philanthropy
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
New Jersey Council for Economic Education

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

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Council On Economic Education; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Council for Economic Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council for Economic Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 33 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.

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