How much did EDUCATION DESIGN LAB grant in FY2024?

EDUCATION DESIGN LAB reported 40 grants totaling $1,405,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is EDUCATION DESIGN LAB based?

EDUCATION DESIGN LAB is based in DC.

EDUCATION DESIGN LAB

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· 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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$225k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of EDUCATION DESIGN LAB’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

2023

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2024

rural practitioner

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

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k32 grants · $773k
$50k–250k8 grants · $623k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$225,000
FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$82,500
LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM$57,500
EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION$57,500
VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
MEA-MFT$50,000
ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY$50,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$37,500
DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$37,500
CHAFFEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$37,500
MARICOPA COUNTY COLLEGES DISTRICT FOUNDATION$25,000
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA WESTERN FOUNDATION$25,000
SUNY SULLIVAN FOUNDATION$25,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 74% of your 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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$700k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

-16%

Still filing today

21%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

EL
EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $95k · revenue +36%
DC
DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +68%
SK
SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +92%

Funded once

AC
ALAMO COLLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +99%
MS
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $150k
RC
ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -18%

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.

North Central State College Foundation

The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.

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Columbia State Community College

Encourages improvement of education at our college and making higher education accessible.

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Morgan Community College Foundation

The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.

Education

Three Rivers College Foundation

To support the educational efforts of ct state community college - three rivers.

—

Hudson Valley Community College

Supporting the mission, the students, and the alumni of the hudson valley community college.

Education

Tacoma Community College Foundation

The tacoma community college foundation assists the college in its mission by increasing financial resources and expanding educational opportunities through community advocacy, teamwork, and innovation. the foundation supports educational,…

Education

South Central College Foundation

To hold, invest, or expend donations for the development of education.

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Northeast State Community College

The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…

Education

Rock Valley College Foundation

The rock valley college foundation provides support to rock valley college and its students.

Education

Flathead Valley Community College

Assist the flathead valley community college with fundraising and scholarships

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Raritan Valley Community College

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds above and beyond the public tuition sources and to promote awareness of the institution. the foundation directs these funds to assist the college in providing affordable, accessible and…

Education

Greenfield Community College Foundation

Educational endowment fund supporting greenfield community college and its students.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockland Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maricopa County Community College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/51

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,514

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

28 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,415,000Education$1,035,000Philanthropy$175,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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.

American Association of CommunityDC28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Association of Community · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Humanities Montana · Achieving the Dream Inc · World Learning Inc · Foundation for California Community · Educational Credit · I Car Education Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Enterprise Holdings 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 EDUCATION DESIGN LAB 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: SUNY SULLIVAN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~28 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 510154661 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 SUNY SULLIVAN FOUNDATION, 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 28 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% 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 Education Design Lab?

Find your warmest path to Education Design Lab 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.

EDUCATION DESIGN LAB

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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Design Lab?

More from the funding graph

EDUCATION DESIGN LAB

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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Design Lab?

More from the funding graph