· Private foundation
Educational Promise Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ED CHOICE | $175,000 |
| STAND TOGETHER TRUST | $175,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $77,500 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN'S | $50,000 |
| FRONTIER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE RACI | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $50,000 |
| PETRA ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| NCSL FOUNDATION FOR STATE LEGISLATO | $25,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $10,000 |
| MONTANA FAMILY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UHUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $822k · revenue +21%
- EIEdChoice Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +10%
- PAPETRA ACADEMY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $240k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $70k
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BIBLUUM INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds PETRA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUUM INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Montana Family Institute Inc ↗
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: Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Educational Promise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educational Promise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Educational Promise Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Educational Promise Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Educational Promise’s filings →