How much does Digital Promise Global give?

Digital Promise Global reported 49 itemized grants totaling $4,736,909, out of $20,604,649 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Digital Promise Global fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (94%), Science & Tech (4%), Employment (1%).

Who are Digital Promise Global's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Learning Ovations ($4.5M), Houston Independent Sch Dist ($2.5M), The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($1.9M).

Does Digital Promise Global fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Digital Promise Global based?

Digital Promise Global is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Digital Promise Global

Digital promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for each learner. We work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale up innovations that empower learners, especially those who've been historically and systematically excluded. Our mission is to shape the future of…

$21M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 49
Itemized grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 29%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $4.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $52,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $564,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 79; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 21
Total assets, FY2024: $141M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Digital Promise Global funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	48	$4.7M	40%
FY2023	51	$5.5M	29%
FY2022	60	$6.9M	27%
FY2021	79	$15M	62%
FY2020	46	$13M	80%
FY2019	19	$1.4M	53%
FY2018	10	$1.0M	80%
FY2017	2	$279k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$45MScience & Tech$1.8MEmployment$371kHuman Services$270kYouth Development$230kInternational$177kSocial Science$166kCivil Rights$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Learning Ovations	$4,492,891	3	n/a
Houston Independent Sch Dist	$2,490,000	4	n/a
The Fund for Public Schools Inc	$1,920,000	2	4%
Atlanta Public Schools	$1,420,000	4	n/a
Miami-Dade County Public Schools	$1,393,500	6	n/a
Unified School District No 259 Wichita Public Schools	$1,387,000	4	n/a
The School Board of Broward County	$1,385,500	5	n/a
Los Angeles Unified School District	$1,339,000	6	n/a
Milwaukee Public Schools	$1,247,750	5	n/a
Mdrc	$1,206,212	5	1%

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All grantees of Digital Promise Global by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Learning Ovations	$4,492,891	3	n/a
Houston Independent Sch Dist	$2,490,000	4	n/a
The Fund for Public Schools Inc	$1,920,000	2	4%
Atlanta Public Schools	$1,420,000	4	n/a
Miami-Dade County Public Schools	$1,393,500	6	n/a
Unified School District No 259 Wichita Public Schools	$1,387,000	4	n/a
The School Board of Broward County	$1,385,500	5	n/a
Los Angeles Unified School District	$1,339,000	6	n/a
Milwaukee Public Schools	$1,247,750	5	n/a
Mdrc	$1,206,212	5	1%
Education Development Center Inc	$1,205,238	7	0%
WGBH Educational Foundation	$1,202,528	5	0%
Board of Education of Jefferson County Kentucky	$1,125,750	5	n/a
Mater Academy Inc	$1,065,500	5	0%
Sri International	$1,026,247	8	0%
Norwalk Public Schools	$972,000	4	n/a
Cleveland Metropolitan School District	$970,000	4	n/a
Kansas City Public Schools	$954,000	2	n/a
Compton Unified School District	$918,250	6	n/a
Portland Public Schools	$774,000	4	n/a
Chicago Connected	$741,000	2	n/a
Baltimore City Public Schools	$658,750	5	n/a
City of Fall River	$581,250	5	n/a
Shelby County Schools	$576,000	2	n/a
Birmingham Board of Education	$549,500	4	n/a
Irving Independent School District	$525,250	5	n/a
Richmond County Board of Education	$485,000	3	n/a
Alhambra School District #68	$483,500	4	n/a
National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology	$475,643	2	1%
Mater Academy of Nevada	$437,000	4	1%
Thinkcercacom Inc	$434,470	1	n/a
Sfusd	$402,250	3	n/a
Trenton Board of Education	$384,500	2	n/a
Roselle Board of Education	$379,000	2	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$373,939	4	0%
Glendale Unified School District	$373,000	5	n/a
Lawrence Public Schools	$359,500	2	n/a
Friendship Public Charter School Inc	$356,250	4	0%
Tucson Unified School District	$348,000	4	n/a
Maricopa County Human Services Department	$330,000	2	n/a
Crescent City Schools	$321,000	5	1%
St Louis Public Schools	$298,000	2	n/a
Orange Township Board of Education	$289,000	1	n/a
Jersey City Board of Education	$271,000	2	n/a
New Brunswick Board of Education	$250,000	2	n/a
Prince George's County Public Schools	$248,500	3	n/a
Englewood Public Schools	$234,000	1	n/a
Glendale Elementary School District	$233,000	3	n/a
Helix Community Schools	$228,000	1	12%
Orange Unified School District	$226,000	4	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$224,875	2	n/a
Alum Rock Union Elementary School District	$222,500	5	n/a
Maker Education Initiative	$222,475	1	11%
Read Foundation Dba Memphis School of Excellence	$210,000	2	1%
Pendergast Elementary School District 92	$201,000	3	n/a
Middlesboro Independent Schools	$200,000	1	n/a
Floyd County School Board of Education	$196,094	5	n/a
Rahway Board of Education	$191,000	1	n/a
Whitehall City School District	$190,000	1	n/a
Mindprint Learning Inc	$188,337	1	n/a
Frontier Schools Inc	$178,000	1	1%
NYC Department of Education	$178,000	3	n/a
Hudson City School District	$176,000	1	n/a
Worcester Public Library	$173,000	1	n/a
Gresham-Barlow School District	$172,000	3	n/a
Hinds County School District	$171,000	2	n/a
Three Pillars an Educational Service Provider	$147,000	2	n/a
Amira Learning Inc	$131,036	1	n/a
Winston-Salemforsyth County Schools	$125,000	1	n/a
Dallas Isd	$123,000	3	n/a
State of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Contro	$117,500	2	n/a
Broward Education Foundation Inc	$110,500	2	1%
Indian Prairie CUSD 204	$100,749	4	n/a
Orangeburg County School District	$100,000	1	n/a
Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools	$100,000	1	n/a
San Antonio Independent School District	$100,000	3	n/a
Achieving the Dream Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$98,892	2	n/a
Albuquerque School of Excellence	$98,000	1	n/a
Napa Valley Unif School Dist	$98,000	1	n/a
National Opinion Research Center	$96,180	3	0%
Iowa City Community School Distr	$92,658	4	n/a
Duquesne City School District	$88,000	1	n/a
Talladega County School District	$86,877	5	n/a
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc	$84,000	2	0%
Msd of Wayne Township	$78,000	1	n/a
Highline School District 401	$76,250	1	n/a
Malcolm X Shabazz High School	$75,000	4	n/a
Reynolds School District	$75,000	2	n/a
Montgomery County Public Schools	$75,000	2	n/a
Little Rock School District	$75,000	3	n/a
Third Sector New England Inc	$70,000	1	0%
Newburgh Enlarged City School District	$68,750	1	n/a
Northern Illinois University	$67,529	1	n/a
Iredell Statesville Schools	$65,000	2	n/a
Guilford Co Public Schools	$64,000	1	n/a
Marshalltown Community School District	$63,750	1	n/a
Jasper County Board of Education	$59,000	2	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$50,304	1	n/a
Imagine Learning Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Friends of Breakthrough Schools	$50,000	1	1%
Zyrobotics LLC	$50,000	2	n/a
Espark Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Newsela Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Omaha Public Schools	$50,000	1	n/a
United Nations Development Corporation	$50,000	1	0%
City of Holyoke	$50,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati City School District	$50,000	2	n/a
Mathematical Association of America Inc	$48,915	2	0%
Jobs for the Future Inc	$45,000	1	0%
Greenfield Union School District	$45,000	1	n/a
Vista Unified School District	$45,000	1	n/a
Summits Education	$44,800	1	2%
Clarksdale Municipal School District	$40,000	1	n/a
Polk County Department of Education	$40,000	2	n/a
Vallejo City Unified School District	$37,000	1	n/a
Pikeville Independent Schools	$33,206	5	n/a
Editorial Projects in Education Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Sown to Grow Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Cedar Rapids Comm School District	$25,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$21,569	1	n/a
American Statistical Association	$21,257	2	0%
Sweetwater Public School	$20,000	1	n/a
Donorschooseorg	$20,000	1	0%
Algiers Charter School Association	$20,000	1	0%
Trinidad School District 1	$20,000	1	n/a
Morgan Local School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Yazoo County School District	$20,000	1	n/a
McComb School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Arise Schools	$20,000	1	0%
National Student Clearinghouse	$19,000	1	0%
Fort Bend ISD	$17,000	1	n/a
Princeton City Schools	$15,000	1	n/a
Huntley Community School District 158	$15,000	1	n/a
Lexington County School District One	$15,000	1	n/a
Avonworth School District	$15,000	1	n/a
Middletown City School District	$15,000	1	n/a
Digital Promise Global	$14,967	1	0%
County of Maricopa Roosevelt School District 66	$14,091	2	n/a
Bristol Township School District	$11,000	1	n/a
New Horizons Regional Education Ctr	$10,000	1	n/a
Urban League of Louisiana	$10,000	1	0%
Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Art	$10,000	1	0%
National Network of State Teachers of the Year	$10,000	1	1%
Assemble Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Vancouver Public School District	$9,500	1	n/a
Camelback Ventures	$8,000	1	0%
The Lean Lab Inc Lean Lab Education	$8,000	1	1%
Catalyst Education Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Mad-Learn LLC	$7,500	1	n/a
Scholastic Inc	$7,125	1	n/a
Mountain Lake Public Telecommunications	$2,000	1	0%
Northwest Technical Institute	$2,000	1	n/a
Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc	$2,000	1	0%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Digital Promise Global supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

Project Lead the Way IncIN78.6× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Good Sports Inc · Save the Music Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The George W Bush Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · I Car Education 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.

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About Digital Promise Global

How much does Digital Promise Global give?: Digital Promise Global reported 49 itemized grants totaling $4,736,909, out of $20,604,649 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Digital Promise Global fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (94%), Science & Tech (4%), Employment (1%).
Who are Digital Promise Global's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Learning Ovations ($4.5M), Houston Independent Sch Dist ($2.5M), The Fund for Public Schools Inc ($1.9M).
Does Digital Promise Global fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Digital Promise Global?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Project Lead the Way Inc, GenYOUTH Incorporated, National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology.
Where is Digital Promise Global based?: Digital Promise Global is based in DC.