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Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative

The michigan educator workforce (mewi) is a statewide non-profit dedicated to eliminating the educator shortage in michigan.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $3,713,531, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,287,399 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $573,868 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–50k4 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $612k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.0M
$105,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDPREP PARTNERS$1,309,356
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$763,350
GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION$500,000
THE SURGE INSTITUTE$400,000
CENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR$160,985
TWO REVOLUTIONS LLC$150,063
PORTAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$105,000
FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$105,000
BIG PICTURE LEARNING$90,885
ALCONA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$35,000
DETROIT ACADEMY FOR ARTS & SCIENCES$35,000
BOE JACKSON CO CONCORD$33,252
COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMISSION$25,640
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDPREP PARTNERS: $1.3M → 11%CENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR: $161k → 7%FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $105k → 8%PORTAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $105k → 12%ALCONA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $35k → 13%JACKSON COUNTY CONCORD COMMUNITY: $120k → 13%DETROIT ACADEMY FOR ARTS & SCIENCES: $40k → 21%BIG PICTURE LEARNING: $91k → 14%THE SURGE INSTITUTE: $400k → 14%TWO REVOLUTIONS LLC: $150k → 10%BOE JACKSON CO CONCORD: $33k → 13%DETROIT ACADEMY FOR ARTS & SCIENCES: $35k → 21%THE SURGE INSTITUTE: $381k → 14%COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMISSION: $26k → 21%GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 14%GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION: $500k → 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.
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 3 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$2.9M
$836k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+64%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • GA
    GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue 0%
  • SURGE INSTITUTE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $781k · revenue -26%
  • DA
    DETROIT ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k

Funded once

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $716k · revenue +64%
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY CONCORD COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $120k
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
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
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
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
4
Innovateedu Inc

Innovateedu catalyzes education transformation by bridging gaps in data, policy, practice, and research to center the needs of the field in accelerating innovation towards an equitable, inclusive and radically different future for all…

Education
5
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
6
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
7
Bpe Inc

Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…

Education
8
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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9
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
10
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
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Throughline Learning

Throughline learning partners with communities to imagine and create more equitable, relevant, and effective schools. using research, we convene, coach, and build capacity to improve outcomes and experiences for all students.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching; the most unlike its peers is Two Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
1/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $2,000,000 · OtherGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGEDPREP PARTNERS: $1,309,356 · OtherEDPREP PARTNERSARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $763,350 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY+5 more: $483,315 · Other+5 moreSURGE INSTITUTE: $781,000 · EducationSURGE INSTITUTEARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $716,099 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $105,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $90,885 · Education+1 more: $25,640 · EducationCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $160,985 · Arts & CultureCANDID: $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,556,021Education$1,718,624Arts & Culture$160,985Philanthropy$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $2,000,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE: $781,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $716,099 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $160,985 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $105,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $90,885 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANDID: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Education Commission: $25,640 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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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