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Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc

INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$15MPublic Benefit$7.6MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$934kCommunity Improvement$927kHuman Services$835kPhilanthropy$687kEnvironment$631kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 41 grants below total $2,425,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,480,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND$225,000
PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC$125,000
ORGANIZE ACTION INC$100,000
BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CE$100,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$100,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS$100,000
MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$80,000
WE MUST VOTE INC$75,000
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION$75,000
OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN$75,000
SOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMENS I$75,000
MS NAACP$75,000
CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN$75,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION$75,000
CHANGE THE GAME$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $100k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $75k → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $53k → 16%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATL: $50k → 9%CASA IN ACTION: $76k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $68k → 11%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $75k → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 16%HOPE HOUSE DAYCARE INC: $1k → 17%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATL: $25k → 9%CASA IN ACTION: $75k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $61k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $50k → 14%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $225k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $50k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN AZ: $61k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $45k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $25k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $50k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $15k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $19k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $45k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $30k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 14%JOLT ACTION: $20k → 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN AZ: $25k → 11%JOLT ACTION: $20k → 10%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND: $25k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $8k → 11%PUENTE: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $30k → 17%PUENTE: $30k → 11%NILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $70k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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NC
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DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 81 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
87

Total granted

$24M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +130%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $850k · revenue +42%
  • C
    COLOROFCHANGEORG
    6× · 2017–2022 · $809k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • CI
    CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $485k · revenue -39%
  • JC
    JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $182k · revenue -53%
  • CI
    COMPETITION & INNOVATION INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $130k · revenue ×4,545
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
6
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
7
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
8
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

—
9
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
10
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
11
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
12
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower; the most unlike its peers is Competition & Innovation Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

151 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 151 of the 179 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/151
Grantees still filing
73/151
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $5,375,500 · OtherPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INCTIDES ADVOCACY: $1,081,858 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $808,556 · OtherFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC: $605,000 · OtherBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $575,820 · Other+86 more: $7,315,080 · Other+86 morePROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $1,167,750 · Civil RightsPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUEWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $850,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANI…WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC: $795,000 · Civil RightsWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND …FREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $456,290 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS ACTION FUNDTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $225,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INC: $225,000 · Civil Rights+24 more: $2,435,020 · Civil Rights+24 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $855,500 · EducationCENTER FO…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $362,000 · EducationSOCIAL GO…FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $245,000 · EducationFAIR FIGH…LENA FOUNDATION: $120,000 · EducationWeird Enough Company Inc: $120,000 · EducationTALKINGPOINTS: $120,000 · EducationCity Center for Collaborative Learning: $120,000 · EducationHBCU GREEN FUND INC: $90,500 · EducationEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $88,550 · Education+9 more: $368,750 · Education+9 moreLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $446,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $295,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC: $245,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $225,000 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $87,500 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $80,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesNILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $70,000 · Human Services+5 more: $171,000 · Human ServicesREPOWER: $436,750 · Public BenefitPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: $230,000 · Public BenefitWOVEN ACTION INC: $185,000 · Public BenefitBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4: $169,276 · Public BenefitCOMPETITION & INNOVATION INSTITUTE: $130,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $120,000 · Public BenefitMCCE ACTION: $65,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $40,500 · Public BenefitPEOPLE'S ACTION: $775,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: $120,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $51,500 · Community ImprovementEngine Advocacy: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE: $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $485,028 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $290,750 · Arts & CultureBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSplinter Art and Community Fund: $63,730 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$15,761,814Civil Rights$6,154,060Education$2,490,300Human Services$1,844,500Public Benefit$1,376,526Community Improvement$1,261,500Arts & Culture$970,008

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $5,375,500 over 9y, 31% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $1,167,750 over 8y, 29% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $1,081,858 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $855,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $850,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $808,556 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC: $795,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $775,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC: $605,000 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC: $575,820 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetCHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $485,028 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFREE PRESS ACTION FUND: $456,290 over 7y, 21% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $446,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetREPOWER: $436,750 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $430,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $362,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDONORS OF COLOR ACTION INC: $300,750 over 4y, 100% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $295,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION FUND: $293,065 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $290,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLIC VOTES INC: $272,650 over 4y, 19% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $265,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $251,050 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSouth Asian Americans Leading Together: $245,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $245,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC: $245,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: $230,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $225,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $225,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $201,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetORGANIZE ACTION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $181,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $176,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUPROSE INC: $175,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4: $169,276 over 6y, 87% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $165,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEQUISLABS: $155,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION: $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVOTER FORMATION PROJECT: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC: $148,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetChicago Votes Action Fund: $130,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Center For Nuleadership On Urban Solutions Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY: $128,660 over 3y, 11% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $125,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $121,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $121,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyChicago Instructional…Way to Win Action Fun…Democracy Fund Voice …America VotesWomen Donors Network …Proteus Action LeagueNEO Philanthropy Acti…North Fund
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA81.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · Proteus Action League · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · North Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 179 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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