How much did EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC’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

2018

political contributions

2019

political contributions

2020

latinopolitical contributions

2021

political contributions

2022

latinopolitical contributions

2023

leadershippolitical contributions

2024

political expendituressocial

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

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $20k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$50k–250k8 grants · $810k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

DFER DC IEC$190,000
DFER GA PAC$184,747
CITIZENS FOR A GREAT DENVER$100,000
BLUE RISING TOGETHER$100,000
DENVER STUDENTS FAMILIES AND TEACHERS UNITED FOR EXCELLENT SCHOOLS$85,000
DFER MA PAC$50,000
THE COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR K-12 STUDENTS$50,000
COLORADO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ACTION$50,000
COLLECTIVE FUTURE$35,000
LEGACY 44$15,000
TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY$10,000
VOTE TO LIVE ACTION FUND$10,000
LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA 2024$10,000
TEXAS JUSTICE FUND$7,500

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 (FY17–19, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 28 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+24%

Still filing today

25%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $479k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

BE
BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
2× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +847%
FL
FAIR LINES COLORADO
4× · 2020–2024 · $91k · revenue +378%
LV
LATINO VICTORY PROJECT
2× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +38%

Funded once

GJ
GOOD JOB COLORADO
one grant, 2018 · $650k
AB
A BRIGHTER HEALTHIER FUTURE FOR COLORADO'S KIDS
one grant, 2020 · $535k
CF
COLORADANS FOR PROSPERITY
one grant, 2019 · $400k

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.

Colorado Democracy Alliance

The Colorado Democracy Alliance is an organization committed to protecting democracy and expanding Colorados civic engagement ecosystem.

Civil Rights

Protect Colorados Vote

To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact

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Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy &

Empowering Latino communities through leadership development, advocacy, and policy research to strengthen Colorado

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Unite for Colorado

To promote the common good and general welfare of americans by promoting public policy that strengthens the economy, promotes job growth, and supports fair and reasonable business regulations.

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Colorado Rising State Action

The organization disseminated in-depth research and targeted communications regarding public policy, including government accountability, monitoring the state budget, and protecting taxpayers, to highlight and explain center-right policy…

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Colorado Civic Education

Educate the general public about important policy issues.

Civil Rights

Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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Colorado Ethics Institute

The colorado ethics institute (cei) was founded to protect the general public by ensuring that public officials comply with ethics codes, transparency rules, and that they follow their oaths of office. cei frequently communicates with the…

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New Era Colorado Foundation

New Era Colorado Foundation Organizes young people to participate in the political process, develop as leaders, and find a political home.

Civil Rights

Progressnow Colorado Education

To provide a strong credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community issues

Community Improvement

Defend Colorado

The purpose of the organization is to conduct research and analysis of conditions affecting the colorado state economy and promote policies that strengthen the state economy.

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American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado

To protect, defend, and extend the civil rights and civil liberties of all people in Colorado through litigatiion, education, and advocacy

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Values Project and the most unlike its peers is Unidosus. 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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

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)

26/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$14,305,739Public Benefit$110,000Civil Rights$81,500Education$50,000Human Services$35,000Community Improvement$10,000

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC55.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · American Federation of State County · Planned Parenthood of the Rocky · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Conservation Colorado · Stand for Children Inc · Campaign for Great Public Schools · Green Advocacy Project · National Education Association of The · Giffords · Sports Betting Alliance

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 REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC 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

1get 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: BLUE RISING TOGETHER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843989047 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 BLUE RISING TOGETHER, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 62% 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 Reform Now Advocacy Inc?

Find your warmest path to Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc 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 REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC

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

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc?

More from the funding graph

EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC

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

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc?

More from the funding graph