How much does Education Design Lab give?

Education Design Lab reported 40 itemized grants totaling $1,384,000, out of $1,487,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 40 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.

What does Education Design Lab fund?

By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%), Employment (0%).

Who are Education Design Lab's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($250k), Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc ($250k), Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College ($150k).

Does Education Design Lab fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Education Design Lab?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Association of Community Colleges, Fidelity Foundation, North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation.

Where is Education Design Lab based?

Education Design Lab is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Education Design Lab

To design and test new models to help higher education adapt as quickly as the economy changes, by partnering with higher education institutions, innovators and employers.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 40
Itemized grants FY2025: 40
Organizations funded FY2024: 65%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 25 to 40; FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 20
Total assets, FY2025: $24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Education Design Lab funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	40	$1.4M	57%
FY2024	40	$1.4M	65%
FY2023	25	$1.3M	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, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$4.0MHealth$30kEmployment$15k

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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$250,000	2	0%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$150,000	1	n/a
The University of Montana	$150,000	2	n/a
Lone Star College System	$145,000	3	n/a
North Virginia Community College (Nova)	$125,000	2	n/a
Forsyth Tech Comm College	$120,000	2	n/a
East Los Angeles College Foundation	$95,000	2	2%
Victoria College Foundation Inc	$83,000	2	1%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	0%

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All grantees of Education Design Lab by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$250,000	2	0%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$150,000	1	n/a
The University of Montana	$150,000	2	n/a
Lone Star College System	$145,000	3	n/a
North Virginia Community College (Nova)	$125,000	2	n/a
Forsyth Tech Comm College	$120,000	2	n/a
East Los Angeles College Foundation	$95,000	2	2%
Victoria College Foundation Inc	$83,000	2	1%
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Chaffey Community College District	$75,000	2	n/a
Delgado Community College Foundation	$75,000	2	1%
Flathead Valley Community College	$50,000	2	n/a
Great Falls College - Montana State University	$50,000	2	n/a
Bridgevalley Community & Technical College Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	9%
Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	3%
South Arkansas College Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	2%
North Arkansas College Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	2%
St Paul College Foundation	$50,000	2	n/a
College of Eastern Idaho	$50,000	1	n/a
Montana State University	$50,000	2	n/a
University of Arkansas Community College Rich Mountain Foundation	$50,000	1	12%
Coahoma Community College and Aggie	$50,000	2	19%
Allegany College of Maryland Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Rockland Community College Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Salish Kootenai College Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Msu Billings	$50,000	2	n/a
Washington State Community Colleges District 17	$50,000	2	n/a
Friends of Saint Paul College	$50,000	1	4%
Shasta College Foundation	$50,000	2	1%
Northcentral Technical College	$50,000	2	n/a
Crowder College Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Montana Technological University	$50,000	2	n/a
Tarrant County College Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Arkansas Tech University Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Motlow College Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Uintah Basin Technical College Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	n/a
Department of Public Health & Human Services	$50,000	2	n/a
East Arkansas Community College Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	54%
Rural Regional College of Northern Pennsylvania	$50,000	2	0%
Westchester Community College Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Randolph Community College Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	2%
Durham Technical Community College Foundation	$40,000	1	0%
Alamance Community College Foundation	$40,000	1	2%
Central Carolina Community College Found	$40,000	1	2%
Wake Technical Community College Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
The Vance-Granville Community College Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	4%
Johnston Community College Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	3%
Fayetteville Technical Community College Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	3%
Piedmont Community College Foundation	$40,000	1	2%
Riverland Community College Foundation	$33,000	1	1%
Hudson County Community College Foundation	$33,000	1	7%
Nicolet Area Technical College	$30,000	1	n/a
Medical University Hospital Authority	$30,000	1	n/a
Dawson College Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
The Univ of Montana-Western Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Educational Foundation of Orange County Community College Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Montana State University-Northern Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Ulster Community College	$25,000	1	n/a
Illinois Central College Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Union County College Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Dutchess Community College	$25,000	1	n/a
Sullivan County Community College	$25,000	1	n/a
Sullivan County Community College Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	13%
Orange County Community College Dba Suny Orange	$25,000	1	n/a
Chaffey College Foundation	$20,000	1	1%
Nicolet Area Technical College Faculty Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Forsyth Technical Community College Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Foundation for Orlando's Future Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Edmonds College Foundation	$10,000	1	1%

Education Design Lab supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 46.

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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.

American Association of Community CollegesDC25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · Fidelity Foundation · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · Achieving the Dream Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Arvest Foundation · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1

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 Education Design Lab

How much does Education Design Lab give?: Education Design Lab reported 40 itemized grants totaling $1,384,000, out of $1,487,085 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 40 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Education Design Lab fund?: By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%), Employment (0%).
Who are Education Design Lab's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($250k), Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc ($250k), Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College ($150k).
Does Education Design Lab fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Education Design Lab?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Association of Community Colleges, Fidelity Foundation, North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation.
Where is Education Design Lab based?: Education Design Lab is based in DC.