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Knowledgeworks Foundation

We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.

$528k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$230k
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.

Philanthropy$9.8MEducation$6.4MEmployment$1.7MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$685kSocial Science$671kYouth Development$317kCivil Rights$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $509,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $528,140 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,640 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–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $430k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Building 21$230,000
Prichard comm for academic excellence$75,000
Kentucky chamber foundation$75,000
Kentucky student voice team$50,000
Aurora institute$30,000
Nat'l career technical education fnd$27,000
Nat'l all of concurrent enrollment$22,500
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 (FY17–23, $602k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CAST INC: $7k → 8%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $450k → 16%CENTER FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION: $115k → 10%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $15k → 16%Bonds of Union: $10k → 16%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
FL
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 28 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
56

Total granted

$7.7M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+0%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +47%
  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $815k · revenue +152%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PARTNERSHIPS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $737k · revenue +17% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • SI
    StriveTogether Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8.5M · revenue +735%
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue +19%
  • CC
    CLARENDON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1
    one grant, 2017 · $166k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
5
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
10
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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12
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Strategic Research and Communication. 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

71 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. 71 of the 90 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/71
Grantees still filing
41/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

StriveTogether Inc: $8,451,263 · PhilanthropyStriveTogether IncYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $1,160,396 · PhilanthropyYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater CincinnatiTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,134,812 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION+7 more: $698,883 · Philanthropy+7 moreNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PARTNERSHIPS INC: $737,250 · EducationNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF C…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $352,657 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYBARD COLLEGE: $305,250 · EducationBARD COLLEGESUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $238,390 · EducationSUMMIT EDUCATION INITI…BUILDING 21: $230,000 · EducationBUILDING 21New York University: $220,000 · EducationNew York UniversityHIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $220,000 · EducationHIGH TECH HIGH GRADUAT…MIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL CONSORTIUM INC: $207,000 · EducationACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $178,250 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $173,086 · EducationPRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC: $150,000 · EducationROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · Education+26 more: $952,371 · Education+26 moreWESTED: $870,969 · OtherWESTEDCincinnati City School District: $268,790 · OtherCincinnati Ci…NATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $228,000 · OtherNATIONAL CARE…CLARENDON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 1: $166,175 · OtherCLARENDON COU…RESEARCH FOR ACTION INC: $160,000 · OtherRESEARCH FOR …Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc: $150,000 · OtherKentucky Cham…+25 more: $621,830 · Other+25 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,175,459 · HealthJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $815,250 · Employment+2 more: $18,150 · EmploymentEvery Child Succeeds: $465,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $215,000 · Human Services+3 more: $21,875 · Human ServicesSEEDING SUCCESS: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati: $31,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$11,445,354Education$4,104,254Other$2,465,764Health$1,175,459Employment$833,400Human Services$701,875Youth Development$186,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,175,459 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $1,160,396 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $1,134,812 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $815,250 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PARTNERSHIPS INC: $737,250 over 7y, 30% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds: $465,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $352,657 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $305,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $238,390 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetBUILDING 21: $230,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNATIONAL CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $228,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetNew York University: $220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $220,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $219,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $215,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL CONSORTIUM INC: $207,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $178,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $173,086 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC: $160,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSEEDING SUCCESS: $155,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $139,383 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF CHIEF STATE SCHOOL OFFICERS: $99,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALL HANDS RAISED: $96,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $89,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $78,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $76,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS: $75,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR ONLINE LEARNING: $65,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $61,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTARK EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $61,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $35,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati: $31,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGETTING SMART COLLECTIVE: $26,876 over 1y, 10% of budgetRODEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBATTELLE FOR KIDS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALMINDED: $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreat Schools Partnership Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Gates FoundationThe William & Flora H…StriveTogether IncWalton Family Foundat…Carnegie Corporation …The Greater Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…New Profit IncCarol Ann and Ralph V…Annie E Casey Foundat…Learning Policy Insti…Blue Meridian Partner…
Gates FoundationWA48.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · StriveTogether Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · New Profit Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Learning Policy Institute · Blue Meridian Partners Inc

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 Knowledgeworks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knowledgeworks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Rodel Charitable Foundation - De: 20% of income from government
  • Cast Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report 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 90 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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By state
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