How much did EDUCATION FORWARD DC grant in FY2025?

Education$48MHuman Services$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.8MSocial Science$1.6MYouth Development$1.4MPhilanthropy$540kHousing & Shelter$300kHealth$178kArts & Culture$25kOther$5.7M

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

2019

whole-childgrounded sciencecharteredmanagementtalenteducatorsactive

2020

charteredtalentjuneliquidationdreamapprovalbusiness

2021

juneliquidationdreamapprovalbusinessschool'snurture

2022

juneliquidationdreamapprovalbusinessschool'sglobal citizens

2023

liberatedenglishglobal citizensnurturepersonalchallengeseducational

2024

creativityproblem-solvingliberatedcreativeexperiencenurtureactive

2025

scalingcreativeexcellencelanguage immersionpersonalenglisheducational

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

03FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $14k
$10k–50k8 grants · $165k
$50k–250k22 grants · $2.6M
$250k+7 grants · $3.2M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

PAVE INC$1,190,000
DC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE$430,000
EDUCATION REFORM NOW$350,000
DC POLICY CENTER$350,000
EDNAVIGATOR$325,000
DC INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL$260,000
BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC$253,100
LEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$208,000
CITYBRIDGE EDUCATION$200,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP$200,000
URBAN INSTITUTE$200,000
INGENUITY PREP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$192,000
BLACK SWAN ACADEMY$175,000
WASHINGTON YU YING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$146,875
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK MALE EDUCATORS$125,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$59M · 69 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$59M

$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+9%

Still filing today

91%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

PI
PAVE INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +42% · 57% of their budget
KD
KIPP DC
7× · 2018–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +56%
DP
DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
8× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +82%

Funded once

RG
RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
one grant, 2018 · $610k
BP
BUILDING PATHWAYS
one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -221%
EA
EAGLE ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue -17%

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.

Washington Global Public Charter School

A community school open to all middle school students in washington, dc, that utilizes a rigorous, internationally based academic and cultural curriculum that integrates project-based learning, service-learning, technology, and language…

Education

Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide children with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education

Cesar Chavez Public Charter School

To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.

Education

Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education

Washington Leadership Academy Public

Our mission is to prepare our kids to thrive in the world and change it for the better. our graduates are college ready, have career ready tech skills, and lead positive change in their communities and the world.

Education

Educare Dc

To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.

Human Services

Charter Schools Development Corporation

Financing and building great public charter schools.

Education

Dc Charter School Action

Dc charter school action engages the charter school community in the legislative process, growing the coalition of activists, educating dc public officials and advancing educational equity.

Education

The Seed Public Charter School of

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education

Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education

Innovation Charter High School

Public charter high school in new york city that promotes leadership through innovation.

Education

Democracy Prep Public Schools

The organization manages and operates high-performing charter schools.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is The Medstar-Georgetown Medical. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/94

the rest of the field

10%

1,354/12,907

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

81 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)

77/81

Grantees still filing

64/81

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$48,489,350Other$6,161,496Human Services$2,419,928Public Benefit$1,815,000Social Science$1,635,000Youth Development$1,355,000Philanthropy$540,000

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.

New Schools FundCA64.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Citytutor DC · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc · 50can Inc · Gates Foundation · Citybridge Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · City Fund

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 FORWARD DC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: PAVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812330119 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 PAVE INC, 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 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Forward DC?

Find your warmest path to Education Forward DC 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 FORWARD DC

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

81 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Forward DC?

More from the funding graph

EDUCATION FORWARD DC

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

81 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Forward DC?

More from the funding graph