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Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc

Transforming education to unlock lifelong opportunity and success for each and every child.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$479kArts & Culture$27kYouth Development$20kSocial Science$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $27,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,011 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,311 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.
$17,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$17,700
TALENT MARKET LLC CO AMERICA'S FUTURE FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN INSITITUTE: $5k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%LINCOLN NETWORK INC: $75k → 10%URBAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 19%EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $5k → 12%ED CHOICE: $5k → 16%SCHOOL CHOICE OHIO: $5k → 15%MISSISSIPPI CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 23%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $84k → 16%THE LEARNING AGENCY: $100k → 14%FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18k → 19%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $2k → 14%THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $27k → 14%TALENT MARKET LLC CO AMERICA'S FUTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TALENT MARKET LLC CO AMERICA'S FUTURE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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

MA
IN
OH
CA
CO
DC
MS
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 3 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$242k
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationSocial ScienceHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $184k · revenue +45%
  • FE
    FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +133%
  • AF
    America's Future Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -32%

Funded once

  • TL
    The Learning Agency Lab
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -49%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +18%
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +51%
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is EdChoice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

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.

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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $184,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYFLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $37,700 · OtherFLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCThe Learning Agency Lab: $100,000 · EducationThe Learning Agency LabMISSISSIPPI CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · EducationMISSISSIPPI CHARTER SCHOOLS A…EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $5,000 · EducationThe Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation Inc: $5,000 · EducationEdChoice Inc: $5,000 · EducationSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $75,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR A…THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN …SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $27,000 · Arts & CultureAmerica's Future Foundation: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$221,700Education$137,000Health$75,000Social Science$50,000Arts & Culture$27,000Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $184,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Learning Agency Lab: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $37,700 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Future Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Walton Family Foundat…
Walton Family Foundation IncAR13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Florida Education Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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