· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $180,000 |
| AUSTIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $180,000 |
| UC IRVINE | $131,304 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $125,000 |
| DALLAS ISD | $125,000 |
| IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,000 |
| NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $123,000 |
| REYNOLDS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $114,000 |
| IRVING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $111,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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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The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
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…
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.
Transform education by focusing on upskilling teachers with advanced teaching tools and best practices in emerging fields like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technology. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mater Academy Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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