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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$75k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$4.0MHealth$30kEmployment$15k
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,384,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,487,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $103,085 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k33 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
$30,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE RICH MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$50,000
EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM$50,000
FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
VANCE GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$40,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%COLLEGE OF EASTERN IDAHO: $50k → 11%RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%FRIENDS OF ST PAUL COLLEGE: $50k → 14%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 15%MEA-MFT: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY: $50k → 11%RURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 14%CHAFFEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $38k → 14%EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $58k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $225k → 17%LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM: $58k → 9%TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%ALAMO COLLLEGES FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY: $30k → 12%NORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE RICH MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 34%CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $30k → 11%NICOLET AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $30k → 12%MOTLOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $83k → 15%CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%VANCE GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 20%HUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $88k → 6%DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38k → 23%MEA-MFT: $50k → 9%CHAFFEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $38k → 14%EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM: $50k → 9%VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33k → 16%FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $38k → 15%NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $38k → 6%DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $38k → 23%ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM: $38k → 9%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

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
TX
FL
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
21

Total granted

$2.2M
$985k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $876k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • VC
    VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $83k · revenue +25%
  • AC
    ALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • MC
    MOTLOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +171%
  • FD
    FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • RC
    Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -8%
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
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
2
Austin Community College Foundation

Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.

Education
3
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.

—
4
Columbia State Community College Foundation

The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…

—
5
Northeast State Community College Foundation

To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.

Education
6
Mid-State Technical College Foundation Inc

Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.

Education
7
Flathead Valley Community College Foundation Inc

Assist the flathead valley community college with fundraising and scholarships.

—
8
Coastal Carolina Community College Foundation Inc

The college foundation is organized and exists to help support the purpose and objectives of coastal carolina community college and to provide financial and other support beyond that which can be obtained through normal sources. funds…

Education
9
Fort Scott Community College Foundation

To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.

—
10
Greenfield Community College Foundation

Greenfield community college foundation supports greenfield community college (hereafter referred to as the college) by raising funds, developing resources and building philanthropic and community relationships to enhance programs and…

Philanthropy
11
Rainy River Community College Foundation

Investing in student success and our communitys future through scholarships and college development

Education
12
Richland Community College Foundation

To benefit richland community college.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Arkansas College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Coahoma Community College and Aggie. 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

49 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. 49 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
12/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $150,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA: $150,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANALONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEM: $145,000 · OtherLONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEMNORTH VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (NOVA): $125,000 · OtherNORTH VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (NOVA)FORSYTH TECH COMM COLLEGE: $120,000 · OtherFORSYTH TECH COMM COLLEGECHAFFEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+27 more: $1,045,000 · Other+27 moreResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $250,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INCEAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationEAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATIONARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Education+27 more: $1,075,000 · Education+27 moreVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 · PhilanthropyRoxbury Community College Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND AGGIE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,885,000Education$1,745,000Philanthropy$316,000Arts & Culture$50,000Recreation & Sports$33,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBRIDGEVALLEY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetRoxbury Community College Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE RICH MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND AGGIE: $50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetALLEGANY COLLEGE OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAINT PAUL COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOTLOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetRURAL REGIONAL COLLEGE OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlamance Community College Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHUDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetDAWSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNIV OF MONTANA-WESTERN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY-NORTHERN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSULLIVAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChaffey College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDMONDS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

American Association …Fidelity FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Achieving the Dream I…Truist Foundation IncAscendium Education S…The Golden Leaf IncI Car Education Found…Duke Energy FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…Arvest FoundationCharles a Cannon Trus…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Education Design Lab funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Design Lab. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%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
    4get no government money at all
    12report 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 74 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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