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Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation

To EMPOWER students to ACCELERATE their academic pathways to ADVANCE their social mobility and ACHIEVE their career and life-long goals.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$2.4MPublic Benefit$91k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$70,623
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THIRD WAY FOUNDATION INC$70,623
21ST CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOL OF GARY CO GEO 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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Donors Choose: $155k → 17%THE THIRD WAY FOUNDATION INC: $71k → 14%The Mind Trust Inc: $10k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA FAMILIES UNITED FOR EDUCATION INCORPORATED: $5k → 21%GEO PREP BAKER: $736k → 19%Donors Choose: $124k → 17%THE THIRD WAY FOUNDATION INc: $10k → 14%GEO ACADEMIES INC: $1.0M → 16%DONORS CHOOSE: $79k → 17%National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: $5k → 14%GEO ACADEMIES INC: $125k → 16%Donors Choose: $69k → 17%GEO Properties Foundation Inc: $21k → 16%Center for Leadership Development: $10k → 16%21ST CENTURY CHARTER SCHOOL OF GARY CO GEO FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%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.
$1.7M · 3 repeat orgs$797k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$1.7M
$787k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • GA
    GEO Academies Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +101% · 29% of their budget
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    4× · 2021–2024 · $426k · revenue -5%
  • TT
    The Third Way Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $81k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • GP
    GEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE
    one grant, 2023 · $736k · revenue -4%
  • GP
    GEO Properties Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation

To EMPOWER students to ACCELERATE their academic pathways to ADVANCE their social mobility and ACHIEVE their career and life-long goals.

Arts & Culture
2
Global Scholars Academy (Gsa)

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
3
Quality Education Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
4
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
5
Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc

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

Education
6
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
7
Wake Preparatory Academy

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school

Education
8
Democracy Prep Public Schools

To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Arts & Culture
9
Cognia Inc

Cognia, inc is dedicated to leading and empowering the education community to ensure that all learners realize their full potential while creating a world of opportunities for every learner. we drive excellence in education through…

Education
10
3DE National Llc

3de re-engineers high school education to be more relevant, experiential, and authentically connected to the complexities of the real world in order to more fully prepare today's students for the demands of tomorrow's economy.

—
11
Gateway Preparatory Academy

To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources. focus on increased individual attention to improve student learning, as well as, allowing students to progress at their own…

Education
12
Technology for Education Consortium

To bring transparency, efficiency, and collaboration to k-12 schools engaged in evaulating and purchasing edtech products and services. we believe that greater transparency and better information will allow school districts to improve…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geo Academies Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Leadership Development 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

10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEO Academies Inc: $1,150,000 · EducationGEO Academies IncGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $736,432 · EducationGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGEDONORSCHOOSEORG: $426,311 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+5 more: $50,500 · EducationThe Third Way Foundation Inc: $80,623 · OtherCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Education$2,363,243Other$80,623Public Benefit$10,000

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 budgetGEO Academies Inc: $1,150,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetGEO PREP ACADEMY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $736,432 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $426,311 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc: $80,623 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGEO Properties Foundation Inc: $20,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budget21st Century Charter School of Gary co GEO Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FAMILIES UNITED FOR EDUCATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover 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 Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation 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.

    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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