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Partnership for Education Advancement Inc

Our mission is to support social mobility by strengthening mission-focused colleges and universities that primarly serve low income, first generation, and under-resourced students and families.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$618k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC’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.

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $2,707,217 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,989,812 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,595 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+2 grants · $925k
$111,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY$617,971
FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY$306,656
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$181,956
BOWIE STATE$164,228
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY$163,675
WINSTON-SALEM STATE -WSSU$162,000
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$161,700
GRAMBLING STATE$152,414
CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY$124,500
SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY$111,000
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY$95,800
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$95,347
COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY$90,712
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UMES$90,000
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY$72,534
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $350k → 11%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $296k → 16%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $131k → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $402k → 25%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $4.1M → 14%FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $307k → 19%ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $294k → 18%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $174k → 32%SHAW UNIVERSITY: $116k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $144k → 11%WINSTON-SALEM STATE-WSSU: $275k → 15%ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 15%FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY: $218k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $833k → 16%SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $111k → 16%CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $194k → 9%JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $276k → 23%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $240k → 14%NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY: $213k → 19%GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY: $290k → 32%BOWIE STATE: $164k → 11%COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY: $91k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UMES: $272k → 22%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $90k → 11%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $162k → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $131k → 25%UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND: $3.4M → 14%FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $280k → 19%ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $239k → 18%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $96k → 11%WINSTON-SALEM STATE -WSSU: $162k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $182k → 16%SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $89k → 16%CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 9%JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $164k → 23%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $195k → 14%NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY: $139k → 19%GRAMBLING STATE: $152k → 32%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UMES: $90k → 22%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $87k → 25%THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $2.1M → 14%FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $125k → 19%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $91k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UMES: $84k → 22%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $81k → 25%FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $120k → 19%SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $95k → 25%THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $110k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 24 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$18M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-9%

Still filing today

38%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $7.5M · revenue +74%
  • AS
    ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $570k · revenue +53%
  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $485k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TM
    Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $2.1M · revenue -9%
  • TU
    Tuskegee University
    one grant, 2023 · $174k · revenue +13%
  • TM
    THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
2
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
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
5
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
6
Charleston Southern University

Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…

Education
7
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
8
Tusculum University

Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…

Education
9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Claflin University and the most unlike its peers is Hampton University Boosters Club. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $7,515,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCThurgood Marshall College Fund — $2,100,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College FundDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $485,000 · Education+8 more — $1,156,712 · Education+8 moreVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,148,852 · OtherVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,105,996 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERM — $831,048 · OtherFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TER…SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY — $627,847 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $569,947 · OtherALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCTexas Southern University — $536,800 · OtherTexas Southern UniversityUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $535,886 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKGRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY — $487,414 · OtherGRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITYHAMPTON UNIVERSITY BOOSTERS CLUB — $477,091 · OtherJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY — $439,175 · OtherWinston-Salem State University — $437,000 · OtherNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY — $393,589 · OtherCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY — $318,500 · Other+6 more — $1,151,714 · Other+6 more
Education$11,256,712Other$9,060,859

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $7,515,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $2,100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $569,947 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $485,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY BOOSTERS CLUB — $477,091 over 3y, 59% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $224,228 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE — $174,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTuskegee University — $174,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $167,938 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY — $136,546 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPaul Quinn College — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund
  • Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY BOOSTERS CLUB
  • Who funds BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE
  • Who funds Tuskegee University
  • Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Yale University
  • Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Paul Quinn College
  • Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN35.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Executive Leadership Council · Tulsa Community Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · World Learning Inc · Student Freedom Initiative Inc · The Howard University

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 Partnership for Education Advancement Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 18%
  • Delaware State University18% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of 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 · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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