How much does Education Forward DC give?

Education Forward DC reported 39 grants totaling $5,982,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Education Forward DC fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Youth Development (4%), Community Improvement (4%).

Who are Education Forward DC's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pave Inc Dba Parents Amplifying Voices in Education ($6.9M), Kipp DC Public Charter Schools ($5.8M), DC Public Education Fund ($3.6M).

Does Education Forward DC fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Education Forward DC?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Schools Fund, Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

Where is Education Forward DC based?

Education Forward DC is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Education Forward DC

EDUCATION FORWARD DC (ed forward dc) works to make sure every dc student thrives by supporting and advancing high-quality and equitable educational experiences.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 39
Grants FY2025: 48
Organizations funded FY2024: 23%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,190,000
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 49; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Education Forward DC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	39	$5.9M	5%
FY2024	48	$8.5M	23%
FY2023	49	$10M	16%
FY2022	37	$8.7M	19%
FY2021	33	$7.4M	12%
FY2020	33	$8.6M	36%
FY2019	37	$7.1M	38%
FY2018	32	$5.9M	41%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$58MYouth Development$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.4MSocial Science$1.6MPhilanthropy$595kEmployment$580kHealth$428kCrime & Legal$389kOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pave Inc Dba Parents Amplifying Voices in Education	$6,903,666	9	92%
Kipp DC Public Charter Schools	$5,775,000	8	1%
DC Public Education Fund	$3,601,225	9	10%
DC Charter School Alliance	$2,770,000	9	21%
Education Reform Now Inc	$2,441,000	9	7%
Cityschools Collaborative	$2,315,667	8	11%
Friendship Public Charter School Inc	$2,259,580	6	1%
School Leader Lab	$2,145,000	7	40%
DC Policy Center	$1,815,000	7	23%
Corporation of the Washington Latin School	$1,799,250	5	4%

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All grantees of Education Forward DC by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pave Inc Dba Parents Amplifying Voices in Education	$6,903,666	9	92%
Kipp DC Public Charter Schools	$5,775,000	8	1%
DC Public Education Fund	$3,601,225	9	10%
DC Charter School Alliance	$2,770,000	9	21%
Education Reform Now Inc	$2,441,000	9	7%
Cityschools Collaborative	$2,315,667	8	11%
Friendship Public Charter School Inc	$2,259,580	6	1%
School Leader Lab	$2,145,000	7	40%
DC Policy Center	$1,815,000	7	23%
Corporation of the Washington Latin School	$1,799,250	5	4%
Relay Graduate School of Education	$1,794,786	5	1%
City Teaching Alliance Inc	$1,625,000	5	3%
The Urban Institute	$1,610,000	4	1%
District of Columbia International School	$1,576,000	6	2%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc	$1,165,700	5	2%
Appletree Institute for Education Innovation	$1,105,000	7	2%
Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School	$1,069,061	6	2%
Surge Institute	$1,050,000	5	9%
Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School	$1,030,000	3	1%
Rocketship Education	$1,015,000	3	1%
Digital Pioneers Academy Public Charter School	$944,750	6	16%
Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School	$822,462	4	2%
The Black Swan Academy Inc	$800,000	7	42%
DC Preparatory Academy	$780,334	3	1%
Edfuel	$752,500	4	14%
Tntp Inc	$667,255	6	0%
Federal City Council	$630,000	5	7%
Citizens of the World Charter Schools	$600,000	2	14%
Promise54	$580,000	3	5%
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School	$574,944	7	2%
Girls Global Academy Public Charter School	$572,500	3	30%
Sojourner Truth School	$572,500	3	26%
Schooltalk Inc	$555,000	5	7%
Special Education Leader Fellowship	$544,500	3	8%
Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys	$541,000	3	26%
Education Pioneers	$540,500	3	4%
Global Citizens Public Charter School	$535,000	4	17%
Teach for America Inc	$520,000	7	0%
Charter School Incubator Initiative	$500,000	1	n/a
Kindred Inc	$481,000	2	33%
Ednavigator Inc	$475,000	3	21%
Free Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education	$461,000	7	17%
EmpowerK12 Inc	$455,250	4	15%
Two Rivers Public Charter School Inc	$448,356	6	1%
DC Association of Chartered Public Schools	$443,000	4	26%
Social Justice Public Charter School Inc	$409,750	5	6%
Eagle Academy Public Charter School	$400,000	1	3%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers	$400,000	3	4%
Ingenuity Prep	$392,000	3	1%
Advocates for Justice and Education	$389,000	6	11%
DC Bilingual Public Charter School	$358,750	3	1%
Lee Montessori Public Charter School	$338,000	3	1%
I Dream Public Charter School	$335,000	3	n/a
The National Association of Black Male Educators	$300,000	2	n/a
Greenhouse E3	$300,000	1	10%
DC Wildflower Public Charter School	$291,250	4	13%
The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc	$277,607	4	0%
Cambiar Education	$275,000	3	0%
Chiefs for Change	$275,000	2	1%
Festival Center Inc	$274,928	2	8%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc	$246,746	3	0%
Thurgood Marshall Academy	$207,423	3	2%
DC Public Schools	$177,755	1	n/a
Charter Board Partners D/B/A Education Board Partners	$152,500	4	5%
Capital Village Schools	$152,500	3	n/a
The Creative School Inc	$150,000	2	n/a
The Wildflower Foundation	$145,000	3	1%
Paul Public Charter School Inc	$132,000	3	0%
Transcend Inc	$131,750	2	0%
Digital Pioneers Academy	$130,000	1	n/a
Capital Experience Lab	$125,000	1	n/a
Capital Village Public Charter School	$124,000	3	13%
Citybridge Foundation	$105,000	1	1%
Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School	$104,000	1	1%
Thurgood Marshall College Fund	$100,000	2	0%
DC Scholars Community Schools	$100,000	2	3%
Ivymount at the Stevens School Inc	$65,000	1	17%
Rooted School Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Uplifted School Services	$50,000	1	n/a
Insite Solutions	$50,000	1	n/a
The Expectations Project Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School	$50,000	1	2%
Innovate Public Schools	$50,000	1	1%
American University	$50,000	1	0%
DC School Reform Now	$41,000	1	15%
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc	$40,000	1	0%
DC Public Charter School Board	$38,000	1	n/a
Higher Achievement Program Inc	$32,500	1	0%
Shalini Shybut Ventures LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Turnaround for Children Inc	$27,607	1	1%
Community Cooperative dba Francesco Collaborative	$25,000	1	n/a
DC Public Charter School Cooperative Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Education Leaders of Color Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Democracy Prep Congress Heights Public Charter School	$15,000	1	0%
Capital City Public Charter School Inc	$11,959	2	0%
Euphemia L Haynes Public Charter School Inc	$9,750	1	0%
DC Hebrew Language Charter School	$8,903	1	0%
Smart Growth America	$6,750	1	0%

Education Forward DC supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 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 84.

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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.

New Schools FundCA61.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Cityschools Collaborative · Citybridge Foundation · 50can Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Gamba Family Foundation Inc

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 Forward DC

How much does Education Forward DC give?: Education Forward DC reported 39 grants totaling $5,982,609 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Education Forward DC fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (85%), Youth Development (4%), Community Improvement (4%).
Who are Education Forward DC's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pave Inc Dba Parents Amplifying Voices in Education ($6.9M), Kipp DC Public Charter Schools ($5.8M), DC Public Education Fund ($3.6M).
Does Education Forward DC fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Education Forward DC?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Schools Fund, Walton Family Foundation Inc, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
Where is Education Forward DC based?: Education Forward DC is based in DC.