Arizona · Public charity
Education Forward Arizona
To advocate for high-quality education and training that aligns with career and workforce opportunities to advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Education Forward Arizona funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $24k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $123k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Be a Leader Foundation | $22,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Phoenix Public Library Foundation | $15,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Valley Leadership Corporation | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Education Commission | $12,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Live the Solution Dba Earn to Learn | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Ellis Center for Educational Excellence · Garcia Family Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Education Forward Arizona
- How much does Education Forward Arizona give?
- Education Forward Arizona reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $2,648,911 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Education Forward Arizona fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (85%), Public Benefit (9%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Education Forward Arizona's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Be a Leader Foundation ($23k), Phoenix Public Library Foundation ($16k), Valley Leadership Corporation ($15k).
- Does Education Forward Arizona fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Education Forward Arizona?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ellis Center for Educational Excellence, Garcia Family Foundation, Burton Family Foundation.
- Where is Education Forward Arizona based?
- Education Forward Arizona is based in AZ.
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