How much did DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

nsf fundedresearchers dataanalysis underunder directiondirection globalsglobals principalprincipal investigator

2019

site paymentpayment participateparticipate computationalthinking ngssngss challengechallenge collaborativeprototypes learner

2020

applvpbubblesparentsdemonstratedstations conductingconducting fun

2021

teachers studentsstudents middlemiddle always-availablealways-available accessread fundedfunded deparmentdeparment literacy

2022

designing pilotingpiloting diversediverse workforcesalons pilotsubgrant kellogg-haitiempowerscontent

2023

under nsfnsf newcirclsnsf toughunder readunder gatesgates statscontent

2024

healthregentsachievetransformationeconomicbuildingprevention

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $40k
$10k–50k17 grants · $422k
$50k–250k23 grants · $2.6M
$250k+4 grants · $1.7M

$52,500

Median grant

States reached

$141M

Total assets

Largest grants

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$564,000
SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY FLORIDA$541,500
CITY OF NORWALK$293,500
CITY OF NORWALK$285,500
ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS$234,000
HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$228,000
RAHWAY BOARD OF EDUCATION$191,000
WHITEHALL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$190,000
FRONTIER SCHOOLS INC$178,000
HUDSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$176,000
AMIRA LEARNING INC$131,036
CLEVELAND MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$125,000
THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA$122,500
ALBUQUERQUE SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE$98,000
NAPA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION$98,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$40M · 63 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$40M

$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+73%

Still filing today

24%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

FF
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
2× · 2020–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +209%
MDRC
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +36%
ED
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%

Funded once

CB
CHICAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $741k
SC
SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS
2× · 2021–2022 · $576k
TI
THINKCERCACOM INC
one grant, 2020 · $434k

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.

American Council On Education

Consensus leader on higher education issues & coordinating body for united states higher ed.

Education

Washington School Principals Education

Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.

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American Academy for Strategic Education

International

Ascendium Education Solutions Inc

Supports increased access to and success in post-secondary education as a national grantmaker, a federal student loan guaranty agency and a provider of student success services.

Education

The National Academy of Education

Arts & Culture

Future of School Inc

—

Council of Graduate Schools

Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.

Education

Partners in Education

Education

The Collegiate School

See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.

Education

Ascendium Education Group Inc

Ascendium education group, inc. operates for the support and benefit of ascendium education solutions, inc.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Building Brilliant Futures

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/153

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,412

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/42

Grantees still filing

35/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$40,693,674Education$3,352,989Employment$1,251,212Arts & Culture$1,244,528Science & Tech$1,026,247Human Services$269,675Youth Development$222,475

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.

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.

Project Lead the Way IncIN77.7× affinity43 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 · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of · The George W Bush Foundation · Save the Music Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · I Car Education 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 organisation DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAKER EDUCATION INITIATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834594261 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MAKER EDUCATION INITIATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Digital Promise Global?

Find your warmest path to Digital Promise Global through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Digital Promise Global?

More from the funding graph

DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Digital Promise Global?

More from the funding graph