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Institute for Education Research & Scholarships

Established in 2004, the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships (IFERS) is an award-winning California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organization dedicated to improving society by conducting scientific and social research as well as being a fiscal sponsor for more than 150 humanitarian projects. We believe in…

$819k
Granted FY2022
7
Itemized grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
71%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$453k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$190,463
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$218k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 71% of the organizations Institute for Education Research & Scholarships funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesEducationOther
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
FY20227$453k71%
FY20218$545k75%
FY20205$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Science & Tech$390kYouth Development$236kInternational$215kCommunity Improvement$98kRecreation & Sports$91kEducation$64kArts & Culture$33kHealth$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
IN
CA
MD
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Promoting Health in Haiti Inc$199,914237%
Wine Unify$98,303196%
Everyday Arts$22,5602n/a
Ease T1d$15,9541n/a
Natural Connections Academy Inc$13,3421n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($798k), not named here.

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About Institute for Education Research & Scholarships

How much does Institute for Education Research & Scholarships give?
Institute for Education Research & Scholarships reported 7 itemized grants totaling $453,302, out of $819,345 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Institute for Education Research & Scholarships fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Science & Tech (34%), Youth Development (21%), International (19%).
Who are Institute for Education Research & Scholarships's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Promoting Health in Haiti Inc ($200k), Wine Unify ($98k), Everyday Arts ($23k).
Does Institute for Education Research & Scholarships fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Institute for Education Research & Scholarships based?
Institute for Education Research & Scholarships is based in CA.

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 16 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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