· Private foundation
Educational Ventures Inc
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 $10k25 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITITAVES (HEALING WELL) | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $50,000 |
| PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL | $45,500 |
| WELLESLEY CENTER FOR WOMENS - WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $24,000 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY | $10,000 |
| ANSWER | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION ACADEMIES | $10,000 |
| JED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those 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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 16 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWellesley College8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +63%
PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $891k · revenue +32%
ISSUE ONE7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- NUNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY JEFF AGARone grant, 2019 · $70k
Williams Collegeone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +18%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $60k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
78 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. 78 of the 171 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 Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds METO INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Griffin-Cole Fund · Honey Perkins Family Foundation Inc · Educational Testing Service · Tenacre Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Educational Ventures Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educational Ventures Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc: 29% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
- Community Justice Center Inc: 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton: 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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