· Public charity
National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology
Digital promise is an independent, bipartisan nonprofit, authorized by congress in 2008 as the national center for research in advanced information and digital technologies through section 802 of the higher education opportunity act.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ADVANCED INFORMATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $7,776,256 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,528,581 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,752,325 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNING OVATIONS | $3,721,888 |
| MDRC | $576,397 |
| LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $285,667 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $246,000 |
| ALHAMBRA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $228,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $205,000 |
| AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $180,000 |
| MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $180,000 |
| UC IRVINE | $131,304 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $125,000 |
| IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,000 |
| DALLAS ISD | $125,000 |
| NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $123,000 |
| REYNOLDS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $114,000 |
| IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $111,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2019, 24 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- DPDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +511%
MDRC2× · 2018–2019 · $769k · revenue +29%- MAMATER ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- VUVISTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $2.0M
- RIRICHARDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $286k
- UDUS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $252k
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.
The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…
ILearn Collaborative creates equity in education by building the capacity of educators to implement student-centered learning. We provide professional development, consulting services and a wide variety of digital resources, and we welcome…
The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
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…
To create an ecosystem of equity-driven teachers, leaders, and change agents working to transform the future of our communities. the organization was built with early childhood educators at the core. to reimagine higher education that…
Harnessing leadership as a lever for change, we partner with education leaders through professional learning and coaching to transform schools and accelerate learning for all students.
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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…
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Transform education by focusing on upskilling teachers with advanced teaching tools and best practices in emerging fields like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicultural Career Intern Program and the most unlike its peers is Compass Cbs Fundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 98 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.
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: Digital Promise Global · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · Good Sports Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods 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 National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mater Academy Inc — 10% 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.
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