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Educause

Advance higher education by promoting the use of information technology.

$1.3M
Granted FY2019
22
Grants FY2019
12
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$9.0M
02FY2019 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $1,185,429, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,278,458 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $93,029 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $934k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE$230,000
WESTED$195,000
HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$160,000
ESCONDIDO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$103,170
TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$90,068
LEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC$89,988
ENVISION EDUCATION INC$65,400
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEARNING INITIATIVE$33,803
SOUHEGAN HIGH SCHOOL$23,000
ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$15,000
SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,000
WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM$15,000
VISTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE ED$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $15k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 14 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
34

Total granted

$5.8M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $815k · revenue +47%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $575k · revenue +3%
  • LP
    Learning Policy Institute
    2× · 2017–2018 · $575k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • GD
    Green Dot Public Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +55%
  • MT
    MOHAWK TRAIL REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $165k
  • EL
    EducationCounsel LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $153k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
2
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
3
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
4
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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5
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
6
Capital Preparatory Schools Inc

To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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8
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
9
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
12
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Collaborative Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTED: $512,000 · OtherWESTEDTHOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $502,422 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $415,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONESCONDIDO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $257,925 · OtherESCONDIDO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTMOHAWK TRAIL REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $164,800 · OtherEducationCounsel LLC: $152,500 · OtherCITY OF SALEM: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $150,000 · OtherTOWN OF BARNSTABLE: $150,000 · OtherNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $149,579 · Other+31 more: $1,595,620 · Other+31 moreACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $814,982 · EducationACHIEVING THE DREAM INCNew Hampshire Learning Initiative Inc: $638,803 · EducationNew Hampshire Learning Initiative IncCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC: $604,590 · EducationCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INCLearning Policy Institute: $575,000 · EducationLearning Policy InstituteLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $239,970 · EducationLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLSTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $226,365 · EducationTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INCENVISION EDUCATION INC: $215,400 · EducationENVISION EDUCATION INCGreen Dot Public Schools: $200,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $146,391 · Education+7 more: $313,451 · Education+7 moreTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $575,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLOR…NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: $205,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …Cohasset Center For Student Coastal Research Inc: $14,905 · Human Services
Other$4,199,846Education$3,974,952Arts & Culture$780,000Human Services$14,905

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $814,982 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Learning Initiative Inc: $638,803 over 3y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC: $604,590 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $575,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetLearning Policy Institute: $575,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $239,970 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $226,365 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC: $215,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: $205,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $146,391 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $74,971 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $69,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE FOCUSED EDUCATION: $54,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSMALL SCHOOLS FOR EQUITY: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBPE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCohasset Center For Student Coastal Research Inc: $14,905 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $10,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Learning Initiative Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVISION EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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.

Tides CenterCA41.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Center · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gates Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jobs for the Future Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Learning Policy Institute · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Educause funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Educause. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Center for Collaborative Education Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $549k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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