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Innovative Technology Education Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$392k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$23,573
Largest grant, FY2024
$70,515
Organizations funded a year
16 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Innovative Technology Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
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 arriving14$392k29%
FY202319$503k37%
FY202216$478k69%
FY202124$296k46%
FY202028$548k50%
FY201922$498k55%
FY201824$420k63%
FY201727$419kn/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$3.4MRecreation & Sports$112kEnvironment$9k

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
Ferguson-Florissant School District$161,8306n/a
Normandy Schools Collaborative$129,5152n/a
Lift for Life Academy Inc$111,99731%
Mehlville School District$109,6415n/a
The Soulard School$98,55034%
The School District of University City$97,9946n/a
The Fulton School$56,35412%
The Biome School$51,00013%
Parkway School District$44,4632n/a
Christ Community Lutheran School$36,0001n/a
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All grantees of Innovative Technology Education Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ferguson-Florissant School District$161,8306n/a
Normandy Schools Collaborative$129,5152n/a
Lift for Life Academy Inc$111,99731%
Mehlville School District$109,6415n/a
The Soulard School$98,55034%
The School District of University City$97,9946n/a
The Fulton School$56,35412%
The Biome School$51,00013%
Parkway School District$44,4632n/a
Christ Community Lutheran School$36,0001n/a
Progress in Education Inc$33,80020%
Saint Frances Cabrini Academy$33,6142n/a
St Mary & St Louis Abbey$32,6511n/a
City Academy Inc$29,70011%
Marian Middle School$26,50011%
Holy Cross Academy$26,0001n/a
Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc$25,76410%
Connected Learning$20,2503n/a
Affton School District$19,8512n/a
Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls$16,73520%
Consolidated School District No 6$14,0002n/a
National Ebs Association$10,00016%
Missouri Gateway Green Building Council$8,75032%
Whitfield School Inc$5,0001n/a
Kipp St Louis$4,00010%
The College School Association$4,00010%

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Innovative Technology Education Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLift for Life Academy Inc: $111,997 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Soulard School: $98,550 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe Fulton School: $56,354 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Biome School: $51,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetProgress in Education Inc: $33,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCity Academy Inc: $29,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarian Middle School: $26,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLafayette Preparatory Academy Inc: $25,764 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHawthorn Leadership School for Girls: $16,735 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Ebs Association: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMissouri Gateway Green Building Council: $8,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKipp St Louis: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe College School Association: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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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.

St Louis Community FoundationMO25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust · Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn

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.

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Find your warmest path to Innovative Technology Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Innovative Technology Education Fund

How much does Innovative Technology Education Fund give?
Innovative Technology Education Fund reported 14 grants totaling $392,241 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Innovative Technology Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (97%), Recreation & Sports (3%), Environment (0%).
Who are Innovative Technology Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ferguson-Florissant School District ($162k), Normandy Schools Collaborative ($130k), Lift for Life Academy Inc ($112k).
Does Innovative Technology Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Innovative Technology Education Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Innovative Technology Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education.
Where is Innovative Technology Education Fund based?
Innovative Technology Education Fund is based in MO.

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 101 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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