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· Public charity
I CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
To support secondary and post-secondary automotive collision training programs through fundraising and grants.
$12M
Granted FY2024
20
Grants
14
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of I CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ERIE 2 CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS BOCES LOGUIDICE CENTER$25,000
- LORENZO WALKER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$15,000
- WARREN TECH$10,000
- DAUPHIN COUNTY TECHNICAL SCHOOL$10,000
- OXFORD HILLS TECHNICAL SCHOOL$10,000
- NORWALK HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
- TABLE ROCK CAREER CENTER$5,000
- TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY- MORRISTOWN$5,000
- CLEARFIELD ADVANCED AUTO$5,000
- STEEL CENTER AREA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL$5,000
- ATLANTIC TECHNICAL CENTER$5,000
- WASHBURN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
- SHERIDAN TECHNICAL COLLEGE$5,000
- NORTH DAKOTA STATE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE$5,000
- GREATER ALTOONA CAREER AND TECH$5,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 73% of your 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.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 111 repeat orgs$456k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 95 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
111
100
Total granted
$1.8M
$436k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+50%
+24%
Still filing today
6%
5%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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
- NHNORWALK HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +31%
- RTROSEDALE TECHNICAL COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +50%
- MRMORRISON R WAITE HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ICINTER-INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON AUTO COLLISION REPAIRgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +76%
- TSTEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $25k
- NANORTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE4× · 2017–2023 · $20k
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.
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Columbia State Community College
Encourages improvement of education at our college and making higher education accessible.
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2
Dakota County Technical College
Utilize board strengths and community connections to influence dctc in maintaining relevancy & attracting & retaining students while supporting their resource & financial needs of current and future students in a meaningful & sustainable…
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3
Northeast State Community College
The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…
Education
4
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.
Education
5
South Central College Foundation
To hold, invest, or expend donations for the development of education.
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6
Jefferson Community College
The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.
Education
7
Texas College
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Education
8
Columbia College
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Education
9
Durham Technical Community College
To advance opportunity for students, the college, and durham and orange counties.
Education
10
Montgomery County Community
The foundation raises funds on behalf of the montgomery county community college.
Education
11
North Central State College Foundation
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
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12
Salina Area Technical College Foundation
Salina Area Technical College will meet the employment needs of the region by providing a diverse community of learners with the technical and general education skills necessary for employment, personal growth and lifelong learning.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Area Technical College and the most unlike its peers is New England Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.1%1/682
the rest of the field
11%
206,163/1,818,883
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
04the grantee network
34 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,160,202Education$72,550Crime & Legal$17,500Employment$5,000
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.
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.
American Association of CommunityDC69.3× affinity41 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 I CAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Lake Technical College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: MORRISON R WAITE HIGH SCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 311259865 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 MORRISON R WAITE HIGH SCHOOL, 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 9 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 5% 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 I Car Education Foundation?
Find your warmest path to I Car Education Foundation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
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