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The American Ai Forum

The ai education project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that creates equitable learning experiences that excite and empower students everywhere with ai literacy.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $1,280,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,433,680 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,680 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 · $80k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
$75,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$200,000
SOUTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT (STEM FOUNDATION)$75,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (YOUCUBED)$75,000
NCW TECH ALLIANCE$75,000
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
TRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY$75,000
CENTRAL INDIANA EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER$75,000
SCHOOL SERVICES OF MONTANA$75,000
EAST CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER$75,000
ULU HI-TECH$75,000
CAPITAL REGION EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT 113$75,000
COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY #4 (CESA 4)$75,000
CAST INC$75,000
MENDOCINO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION$50,000
FOOTHILL DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $825k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAST INC: $75k → 10%INDIGITIZE COMPUTER SCEINCE: $750k → 10%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 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
Technology Association of Iowa Education Foundation
Community Improvement
2
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
3
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
4
Council for Educational Development and Research Inc

To provide for knowledge sharing in support of an approach to school improvement in which key stakeholders create, translate and apply the best available, empirical evidence for improving student achievement.

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5
Technology for Education Consortium

To bring transparency, efficiency, and collaboration to k-12 schools engaged in evaulating and purchasing edtech products and services. we believe that greater transparency and better information will allow school districts to improve…

Education
6
North Dakota Tribal College System

Advancing tribal colleges through collaboration and shared goals. ndtcs leverages the higher education experience by sharing ideas and broadening networks and alliances, toward improving students' outcomes.

Education
7
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.

Education
8
Innovations in Education - a Nelson Project
Education
9
The National Academy of Education
Arts & Culture
10
North American Native Research and Education Foundation Inc

North american native research and education foundation's mission is to provide educational and research opportunites to american indian students with the sole purpose of encouraging life-long learning and sharing.

Human Services
11
Collegiate Edu-Nation

To end generational poverty in rural America by empowering rural school districts and communities to support and educate students/youth, beginning at home, continuing from the first day of Pre-K through postsecondary, leading to meaningful…

Education
12
Northwest Council for Computer Education

Ncce is dedicated to supporting effective uses of technology in education. ncce hosts the largest educational technology conference in the pacific northwest and provides it's members with resources and professional development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Rural Education Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONTIES GLOBAL: $226,000 · OtherTIES GLOBALKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP: $75,000 · OtherKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORPCESA 4: $75,000 · OtherCESA 4TRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: $75,000 · OtherTRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLYULU HI-TECH: $75,000 · OtherULU HI-TECHEDUC SVC DISTR 113 VISION FOR EL WC: $75,000 · OtherEDUC SVC DISTR 113 VISION FOR EL WCSOUTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherSOUTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICTEast Central Education Service Center: $75,000 · OtherEast Central Education Service CenterMENDOCINO LAKE CC DISTRICT: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $25,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER: $750,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCAST INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCAST INCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF…SCHOOL SERVICES OF MONTANA: $75,000 · EducationSCHOOL SERVI…CENTRAL INDIANA EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENT: $75,000 · EducationCENTRAL INDI…INDIGIGENIUS: $40,000 · EducationINDIGIGENIUSRural Alliance: $15,000 · EducationRural Allian…NCW TECH ALLIANCE: $75,000 · Science & TechFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,226,000Human Services$825,000Education$280,000Science & Tech$75,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL RURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $400,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNCW TECH ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSCHOOL SERVICES OF MONTANA: $75,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCAST INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL INDIANA EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENT: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRural Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% 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 The American Ai Forum funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Ai Forum. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The American Ai Forum?

    Find your warmest path to The American Ai Forum 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 21 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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