· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $190,463 |
| Promoting Health In Haiti | $114,613 |
| Avid Movement for All | $45,000 |
| UB League | $45,000 |
| More of Baltimore Homeschool Co-op | $44,505 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,663 |
| One Child at a Time | $5,058 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Institute for Education Research & Scholarships’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -29% since the first grant, against -91% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPROMOTING HEALTH IN HAITI INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue -84% · 37% of their budget
- ULUB League3× · 2020–2022 · $91k
- EAEVERYDAY ARTS2× · 2020–2021 · $23k · revenue -29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $182k
- WUWINE UNIFYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $98k · revenue +90% · 96% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Institute for Education Research & Scholarships funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Education Research & Scholarships. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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