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Grantmakers for Education

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$44k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$8k
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, FY2020 to 2022.

Youth Development$924kEducation$216kHuman Services$100k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $44,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 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.
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL INDIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$8,000
NATIONAL AFTERSCHOOL ASSOCIATION$8,000
EXPANDEDSCHOOLS$8,000
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP$8,000
NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC$8,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $200k → 17%EXPANDEDSCHOOLS: $8k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $100k → 17%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$840k · 5 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

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

+15%
-19%

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.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesYouth 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

  • NS
    NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +109%
  • ES
    EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +7%
  • NA
    National AfterSchool Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $208k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +106%
  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -19%
  • U
    UNIDOSUS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -23%
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
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
2
National Education Association of the United States

Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

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3
American Association of School Administrators Inc

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
4
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…

—
5
North American Association for Environmental Educa

The mission of naaee 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, policymakers, and partners aroung the world.

Environment
6
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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7
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
8
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
9
North American Securities Administrators Association Inc

Nasaa represents and serves its members through advocacy, education, subject matter expertise, communication, and coordination.

Unclassified
10
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
11
The Leadership Academy Inc

Harnessing leadership as a lever for change, we partner with education leaders through professional learning and coaching to transform schools and accelerate learning for all students.

Education
12
American Energy Alliance

American energy alliance (aea) is an educational advocacy and grassroots organization. aea is related to the institute for energy research (ier). aea's mission is to enlist, educate, and empower energy consumers to encourage policymakers…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Institute for Educational Leadership. 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 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC: $208,000 · EducationNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INCNational AfterSchool Association Inc: $208,000 · EducationNational AfterSchool Association IncINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: $108,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIPNational Indian Education Assn: $108,000 · EducationNational Indian Education AssnEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $208,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INCNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INCAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentAFTERSCHOOL ALLIAN…UNIDOSUS: $100,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS
Education$632,000Human Services$308,000Youth Development$200,000Other$100,000

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 budgetNATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC: $208,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $208,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNational AfterSchool Association Inc: $208,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: $108,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNational Indian Education Assn: $108,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $100,000 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.

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.

The Wallace FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Wallace FoundationNY17.8× 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 8 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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