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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).

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$540k
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$39MCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $736,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,927,558 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,191,408 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

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
  • $250k+1 grant · $540k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAM$540,000
DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS$58,100
WORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE INC$28,050
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA$10,000
TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY$10,000
GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$10,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERISTY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $28k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%PAHARA INSTITUTE: $250k → 14%ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 14%BEAM: $540k → 20%TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $10k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERISTY: $10k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $10k → 23%PAHARA INSTITUTE: $250k → 14%EDQUITY INC: $225k → 20%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $13k → 14%EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR: $129k → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $12.4M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8.7M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5.9M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.8M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.5M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.4M → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2.1M → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE: $10k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $437k → 14%DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $58k → 14%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

NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
NC
DC
LA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 3 repeat orgs$716k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$38M
$578k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%
+2%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DP
    DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37M
  • EI
    EDQUITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $765k
  • PI
    PAHARA INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue -20%

Funded once

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $437k · revenue +2%
  • EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue +30%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue 0%
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
Furman University

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.

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
Augustana College

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…

Education
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Point Park University

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…

—
8
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Howard University; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $36,793,709 · OtherDC PUBLIC SCHOOLS+8 more: $1,325,000 · OtherTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $436,860 · EducationWORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $28,050 · Education+5 more: $52,500 · EducationEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $128,760 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$38,118,709Education$517,410Arts & Culture$128,760Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAHARA INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $436,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $128,760 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $28,050 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON BOARD OF TRADE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Collegiate A…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 DC Public Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from DC Public Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Work-Based Learning Alliance: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 18 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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