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Idea Center Inc

Providing services and products for assessing and improving teaching, learning and administrative performance.

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,050
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,050
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Idea Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’23
EducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$8k0%
FY20232$43k100%
FY20192$17k100%
FY20185$41k100%
FY20175$47kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$155k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
NE
NC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Society for the Scholarship Center for Engaged Learning$26,00015%
Professional & Organizational Deveolpment Network in Higher Educ$24,55022%
University of Massachusetts$10,6441n/a
Trustees of Tufts College$10,00010%
University of Florida$9,9761n/a
San Francisco State University$9,3421n/a
Nazareth University$9,00010%
Everett Community College$8,7341n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$8,4241n/a
Cameron University$8,1381n/a
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All grantees of Idea Center Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Society for the Scholarship Center for Engaged Learning$26,00015%
Professional & Organizational Deveolpment Network in Higher Educ$24,55022%
University of Massachusetts$10,6441n/a
Trustees of Tufts College$10,00010%
University of Florida$9,9761n/a
San Francisco State University$9,3421n/a
Nazareth University$9,00010%
Everett Community College$8,7341n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$8,4241n/a
Cameron University$8,1381n/a
Kutztown University$7,7911n/a
Franklin & Marshall College$7,68010%
Dordt University$7,50010%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$7,2501n/a

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About Idea Center Inc

How much does Idea Center Inc give?
Idea Center Inc reported 1 grants totaling $8,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Idea Center Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Idea Center Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Society for the Scholarship Center for Engaged Learning ($26k), Professional & Organizational Deveolpment Network in Higher Educ ($25k), University of Massachusetts ($11k).
Does Idea Center Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Idea Center Inc based?
Idea Center Inc is based in KS.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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