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GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION
Is a network of education philanthropists dedicated to learning, collaborating, and taking collective action to advance effective, equitable, and strategic grantmaking.
$44k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants
3
Communities
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2022.
Education$632kHuman Services$308kYouth Development$200kOther$100k
02FY2022 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NATIONAL INDIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$8,000
- INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP$8,000
- EXPANDEDSCHOOLS$8,000
- NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION$8,000
- NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC$8,000
02The need
03
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$840k · 5 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
3
Total granted
$840k
$400k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+18%
+80%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +70%
- EEXPANDEDSCHOOLS2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +18%
- NANATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +7%
Funded once
AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +89%- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +46%
- UUNIDOSUSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +80%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
National Association for the Education
The national association for the education of young children (naeyc) is a professional membership organization, founded in 1926, whose mission is to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by…
Education
2
The National Academy of Education
Arts & Culture
3
National Education Association of the
The national education association of the united states (nea) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated under an act of the united states congress. our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the…
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4
National Association of Regulatory
To serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation.
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5
The Urban Assembly Inc
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
International
6
North American Association for Environmental Educa
The mission of north american association for environmental education is to use the power of education to advance environmental literacy and civic engagement to create a more equitable and sustainable future. we work with educators,…
Environment
7
Innovateedu Inc
Innovateedu catalyzes education transformation by bridging gaps in data, policy, practice, and research to center the needs of the field in accelerating innovation towards an equitable, inclusive and radically different future for all…
Education
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public
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
9
North American Securities Administrators
Unclassified
10
United Nations International School
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
Education
11
American Association of School
Aasa, the school superintendents association advocates for equitable access for all students to the highest quality public education, and develops and supports school system leaders.
Education
12
Northwest Association of Independent
Nwais shapes the future of education by fostering transformative school leadership and advancing, energizing and sustaining regional independent schools. a school's goal in joining nwais is to gain and maintain accreditation by nwais. the…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unidosus. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$632,000Human Services$308,000Youth Development$200,000Other$100,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXPANDEDSCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Wallace FoundationNY18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Wallace Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311357902 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Grantmakers for Education?
Find your warmest path to Grantmakers for Education through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines