· Public charity
Education Reform Now Inc
Our mission is to create progressive education change at both the federal level and in states across the country at every stage from k-12 to higher-ed to ensure americans of all ages, from cradle to grave, gains full and fair access to a globally competitive high-quality public education that empowers them to fulfill their limitless…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $147k
- $250k+2 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC | $5,766,411 |
| BLACK LATINO ASIAN CHARTER COLLABORATIVE | $1,988,333 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA AIM HIGH FOUNDATION | $96,642 |
| NEWDEAL FORUM | $50,000 |
| THE COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS FOR K-12 STUDENTS | $48,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION | $30,000 |
| TEACH PLUS INC | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY INC | $20,000 |
| HILL FOR LITERACY INC | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EREDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37M · revenue +19% · 59% of their budget
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA AIM HIGH FOUNDATION CAROLINA BASKETBALL CAMP2× · 2023–2024 · $144k · revenue +30% · 38% of their budget
TEACH PLUS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MLMEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $171k · revenue -60%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +25%
- CBCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Reform Now Advocacy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gates Family Foundation. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK LATINX ASIAN CHARTER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA AIM HIGH FOUNDATION CAROLINA BASKETBALL CAMP ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWDEAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF BLACKPUERTO RICAN HISPANIC & ASIAN LEGISLATOR ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds GATES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOMOS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG INVINCIBLES ↗
- Who funds New Leaders Council ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
- Who funds HILL FOR LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER DBA FAMILY & INTERCULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ ↗
- Who funds INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MATH ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 organization Education Reform Now 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.
- Hill for Literacy Inc — 10% of income from government
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 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.