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· Private foundation
INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FUND
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$392k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
2
Communities
$71k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FUND’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.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
louis
2019
middlesaint
2020
slpshazelwoodsaint louis
2021
elementarygatewaycatholicsaint louis
2022
elementarycatholic
2023
saint
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $249k
$23,573
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NORMANDY SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$70,515
- SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY$60,564
- MAPLEWOOD RICHMOND HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT$59,791
- THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY$58,594
- HILLSBORO R-3 SCHOOL DISTRICT$30,000
- LEBANON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$29,996
- SUNRISE R-9 SCHOOL DISTRICT$23,573
- AL-SALAM DAY SCHOOL$16,500
- HANCOCK PLACE SCHOOL DISTRICT$12,954
- VALLEY PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT$12,954
- CONNECTED LEARNING$5,250
- FERGUSON FLORISSANT SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,050
- USGBC MO GATEWAY CHAPTER$5,000
- NEBSA$1,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 38 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else
38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
38
61
Total granted
$2.2M
$1.2M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+20%
+103%
Still filing today
8%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY3× · 2017–2019 · $112k · revenue +121%
- TSTHE SOULARD SCHOOL3× · 2017–2022 · $99k · revenue +20%
- HLHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS2× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SHSUMNER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $65k
- WEWALBRIDGE ELEMENTARYone grant, 2017 · $62k
- MBMARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $61k
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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La Salle Charter Schools Inc
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
Education
2
The Childrens School for Child-Centered
School - preschool to 8th grade.
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3
Hillside Academy
We inspire passinate, confident, and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates christian values while striving for academic excellence.
Education
4
Arborbrook Christian Academy
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Education
5
The Berkeley School
A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.
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6
Manhattan Christian School
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
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7
Capitol Hill Day School
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Education
8
The Fay School
The Fay School offers high- quality education for students in preschool through fifth grade.
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9
Bosque School
Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…
Education
10
Flint Hill School
Flint Hill is a private nonsectarian school of 1,042 preschool through high school students from 95 countries. We create developmental experiences that embrace the best practices of traditional and contemporary education. Through…
Education
11
Berkwood School
K-8 education using a hands-on development curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.
Education
12
Kuumba Academy Charter School Inc
Kuumba Academy Mission is to provide an innovative learning environment focused on the whole child. Kuumba Academy directors, staff and parents share a core belief that parents are the primary educators and are in partnership with Kuumba…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift for Life Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Ebs Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,144,875Education$297,868Recreation & Sports$111,997
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.
St Louis Community FoundationMO22.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn · Employees of Community Fund · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Hawthorn Leadership School Foundation · Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust · The Opportunity Trust · Express Scripts Foundation
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 INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FUND 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: NATIONAL EBS ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510228673 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 NATIONAL EBS ASSOCIATION, 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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 Innovative Technology Education Fund?
Find your warmest path to Innovative Technology Education Fund 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