· Public charity
Institute for Educational Leadership
The INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, inc., known as iel, was incorporated on december 4, 1980, in the district of columbia, and serves to lift up underserved leaders and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to transform their communities through education with collaborative, equity-driven solutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $666k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PVJOBS | $204,453 |
| GREATER MIAMI SERVICE CORPS | $144,116 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON | $113,804 |
| LAWRENCE HALL | $85,843 |
| THE COMMUNITY GROUP INC | $59,797 |
| ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO | $57,620 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $37,356 |
| CLARKSTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $29,728 |
| EASTER SEALS OF HOUSTON | $25,060 |
| RICHMOND DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| LATINO LEADERSHIP NW | $17,892 |
| MARTHA O'BRIAN CENTER | $10,187 |
| PECKHAM | $9,295 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PVPECKHAM VOCATIONAL INDUSTRIES INC DBA PECKHAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +58%
Cornell University5× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +59%- PVPLAYA VISTA JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BUSINESS SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +361%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $118k · revenue +116%
- WCWESTAT CORPone grant, 2017 · $92k
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISHone grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanim Inc and the most unlike its peers is Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PECKHAM VOCATIONAL INDUSTRIES INC DBA PECKHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PLAYA VISTA JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BUSINESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI SERVICE CORPS ↗
- Who funds ABILITY CONNECTION COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Progressive Center for Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROOF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMANIM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds DAWN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR YOUTH RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY ↗
- Who funds CLARKSTON COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTED DESERT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Institute for Educational Leadership 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Greater Miami Service Corps — 36% of income from government
- Opportunity Development Inc — 28% of income from government
- Progressive Center for Independent Living Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dawn Center for Independent Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- Commission On Adult Basic Education Inc — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.