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DC Public Education Fund
Tthe DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND catalyzes philanthropy in support of strategic initiatives in dc public schools (dcps).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $736,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,927,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,191,408 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
- $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
- $250k+1 grant · $540k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAM | $540,000 |
| DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $58,100 |
| WORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE INC | $28,050 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERISTY | $10,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DPDC PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $37M
- EIEDQUITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $765k
- PIPAHARA INSTITUTE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue -20%
Funded once
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $437k · revenue +2%
EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue +30%
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Howard University and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 PAHARA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC ↗
- Who funds WORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association
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 DC Public Education Fund 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.
- Work-Based Learning Alliance — 100% of income from government
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.