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EdChoice Inc

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$828k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$150k
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 2025.

Education$6.5MPublic Benefit$1.3MCivil Rights$840kHuman Services$313kReligion$235kHealth$212kCommunity Improvement$200kSocial Science$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $620k
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Institute for Quality Education Inc$150,000
National Microschooling Center$75,000
Love Your School$75,000
The Children's Scholarship Fund$70,000
National Urban League Inc$50,000
Pelican Institute for Public Policy$50,000
Empower Mississippi Foundation$50,000
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc$50,000
Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education$50,000
PA Families for Education Choice Inc$40,000
Palmetto Promise Institute$40,000
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation$40,000
Alabama Policy Institute Inc$30,000
Oklahoma Parents for Student Achievement$25,000
National Black Caucus of State Legislators$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FDN: $75k → 11%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $128k → 35%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $75k → 11%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $50k → 11%National Urban League Inc: $100k → 17%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $75k → 17%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $35k → 16%National Urban League Inc: $60k → 17%INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 16%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $10k → 11%National Urban League Inc: $50k → 17%Indianapolis Urban League Inc: $20k → 16%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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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 33 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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34

Total granted

$8.3M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+44%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +37%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $932k · revenue +328% · 91% of their budget
  • CI
    Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $160k · revenue +18%
  • I
    Innovate-Educate
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -53%
  • IA
    IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · 33% of their budget
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
3
School Choice Ohio Inc

The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.

Education
4
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
5
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
6
The Foundation for Research On Equal Opportunity

The foundation for research on equal opportunity seeks to expand economic opportunity to those who least have it, using the tools of individual liberty, free enterprise, technological innovation, and pluralism. freopp deploys the nation's…

Community Improvement
7
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
8
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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9
National Education Opportunity Network Inc

The National Education Equity Lab propels economic mobility for students from low-income communities by delivering college credit-bearing courses from our nation's top universities and colleges into low-income Title I high schools at…

Education
10
Technology for Education Consortium

To bring transparency, efficiency, and collaboration to k-12 schools engaged in evaulating and purchasing edtech products and services. we believe that greater transparency and better information will allow school districts to improve…

Education
11
Learning Policy Institute

The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Quality Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outcomes Research Institute. 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

62 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. 62 of the 70 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $1,250,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INCNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER: $932,000 · EducationNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTERIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $575,000 · EducationIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONLOVE YOUR SCHOOL: $455,000 · EducationLOVE YOUR SCHOOLEdfit Indiana Inc: $333,000 · EducationEdfit Indiana IncTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $320,000 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDParents for Educational Freedom in NC: $240,000 · Education+24 more: $1,712,500 · Education+24 moreEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $368,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER M…NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $285,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL …INDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesINDIANAPO…Hispanic Access Foundation: $50,000 · Human ServicesHispanic …American Jobs for Americas Youth Montana: $30,000 · Human ServicesNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $240,000 · OtherNational Black…DIOCESE OF CHARLESTON: $150,250 · OtherDIOCESE OF CHA…AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $75,000 · OtherAGUDATH ISRAEL…EVERY KID COUNTS OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 · OtherPRIDE AND PREJUDICE INC: $45,000 · OtherThe Oaks Community Center: $200,000 · OtherThe Oaks Commu…GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE: $50,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $190,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY AR…OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $50,000 · Other+11 more: $225,000 · Other+11 moreCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc: $640,000 · Social ScienceTHE POLICY CIRCLE CO: $65,000 · Social ScienceJosiah Bartlett Center for Public P: $175,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network: $80,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $55,000 · Public BenefitBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $50,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTER: $50,000 · Public BenefitRio Grande Foundation Inc: $30,000 · Public BenefitPalmetto Promise Institute: $235,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $160,000 · HealthEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $27,000 · Health100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $279,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $25,000 · Youth Development
Education$5,817,500Human Services$813,000Other$1,275,250Social Science$705,000Public Benefit$565,000Health$422,000Youth Development$304,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $1,250,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER: $932,000 over 8y, 91% of budgetCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc: $640,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $575,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetLOVE YOUR SCHOOL: $455,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $368,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetEdfit Indiana Inc: $333,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $320,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $285,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $279,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $240,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetParents for Educational Freedom in NC: $240,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $235,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Oaks Community Center: $200,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetOPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetKURIOSED INC: $190,000 over 3y, 99% of budgetJosiah Bartlett Center for Public P: $175,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $160,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUTAH EDUCATION FITS ALL: $150,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetPA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE: $140,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMY SC EDUCATION: $122,500 over 2y, 70% of budgetBETTER OUTCOMES FOR OUR KIDS INC: $105,000 over 4y, 53% of budgetInnovate-Educate: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLibertas Network: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC: $80,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetSTEP UP FOR STUDENTS - FLORIDA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $70,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHE POLICY CIRCLE CO: $65,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $56,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHispanic Access Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ARIZONA POLICY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER INDIANAPOLIS PROGRESS COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEVERY KID COUNTS OKLAHOMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOKLAHOMA PARENTS FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT INC: $46,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetARIZONA SCHOOL CHOICE ADMINISTRATIVE CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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.

State Policy NetworkDonors Trust IncThe Seminar Network I…National School Choic…The Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…American Federation f…Walton Family Foundat…Adolph Coors Foundati…The Roe FoundationAtlas Economic Resear…Beth and Ravenel Curr…
State Policy NetworkVA36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: State Policy Network · Donors Trust Inc · The Seminar Network Inc · National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Roe Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Beth and Ravenel Curry 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 EdChoice Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from EdChoice Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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