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Fund for Education

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.

$82k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,800
Organizations funded a year
25 to 43
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Fund for Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$82k22%
FY202436$81k19%
FY202336$78k33%
FY202234$89k15%
FY202143$85k23%
FY202035$80k9%
FY201933$83k27%
FY201825$74kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$224kEducation$104kHealth$101kHuman Services$66kEnvironment$58kArts & Culture$50kFood & Nutrition$35kCivil Rights$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Life Charities Inc$156,32683%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$43,00060%
Berea College$35,00070%
Arden Theatre Company$25,00050%
Occidental College$22,50070%
Sharing Excess$19,50030%
Tibet Fund Inc$16,50080%
Ashoka$13,00080%
Wills Eye Foundation Inc$12,50030%
Friendship International$11,00034%
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All grantees of Fund for Education by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Life Charities Inc$156,32683%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$43,00060%
Berea College$35,00070%
Arden Theatre Company$25,00050%
Occidental College$22,50070%
Sharing Excess$19,50030%
Tibet Fund Inc$16,50080%
Ashoka$13,00080%
Wills Eye Foundation Inc$12,50030%
Friendship International$11,00034%
Altruvision$10,00020%
Nurse-Family Partnership$9,30080%
The Fistula Foundation$9,00080%
Philabundance$8,57560%
Oxfam-America Inc$7,35070%
First Book$7,00060%
Feeding America$6,50040%
Eo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation$5,00060%
Kipp Foundation$4,50040%
Center for Civilians in Conflict$4,00040%
World Emergency Relief$4,00020%
MAP International Inc$3,75050%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$3,50030%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$3,25080%
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College$3,0001n/a
American Conservation Experience$3,00020%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$2,88520%
Congregation Beth Am Israel$2,8002n/a
Israel Emergency Alliance$2,50010%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$2,50010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$2,50030%
The Merion Fire Company$1,85080%
American Indian College Fund$1,75040%
Volunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar$1,55070%
Merion Civic Association$1,4506n/a
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,25030%
Ardmore Free Library$1,15051%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$1,1002n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%
Mid Pines Foundation$1,00016%
Finca International Inc$75020%
Whyy Inc$65030%
American Friends Service Committee$5001n/a
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$50010%
League of Women Voters Education Fund$50010%
Common Cause$50010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$50010%
Alumni Association of the Bronx High School of Science$50012%
Narberth Community Theatre$50010%
The Barnes Foundation$50010%
Sierra Club$50010%
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc$25010%
Lower Merion Conservancy$25010%
Technoserve Inc$25010%
Friends of the Cynwyd Trail Inc$20020%
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens$15010%
Charity Navigator$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fund for Education supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLife Charities Inc: $156,326 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBerea College: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetArden Theatre Company: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOccidental College: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSharing Excess: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAshoka: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWills Eye Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship International: $11,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetAltruvision: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNurse-Family Partnership: $9,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $8,575 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $7,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKipp Foundation: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Civilians in Conflict: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Emergency Relief: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $3,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Conservation Experience: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $2,885 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Merion Fire Company: $1,850 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar: $1,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArdmore Free Library: $1,150 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid Pines Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFinca International Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Women Voters Education Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Cause: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlumni Association of the Bronx High School of Science: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNarberth Community Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLower Merion Conservancy: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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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.

Foundation for Improving HorizonsDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Improving Horizons · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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Find your warmest path to Fund for Education 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.

About Fund for Education

How much does Fund for Education give?
Fund for Education reported 36 grants totaling $82,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Fund for Education fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Education (15%), Health (15%).
Who are Fund for Education's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Life Charities Inc ($156k), The Student Conservation Association Inc ($43k), Berea College ($35k).
Does Fund for Education fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fund for Education accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Education?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Improving Horizons, The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation.
Where is Fund for Education based?
Fund for Education is based in PA.

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 81 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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