How much did THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM grant in FY2024?

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM reported 29 grants totaling $14,911,728 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM based?

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM is based in DC.

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM

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· Public charity

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM

To expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all americans, particularly our children, ensuring that the conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom, and flexibility throughout u.s.

$15M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$975k

Largest

01What you fund

0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$29MArts & Culture$3.0MYouth Development$2.0MHuman Services$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.3MCivil Rights$250kCommunity Improvement$200kHealth$150kPhilanthropy$100kOther$15M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

best classclass providers

2022

best classclass providers

2023

best classclass providers

2024

yass prizeprize semifinalistprize finalistprize alumnialumni awardssemifinalist stopstop award

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k20 grants · $4.0M
$250k+9 grants · $4.6M

$200,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$975,000
SAILFUTURE$770,500
UNCOMMON CONSTRUCTION$750,000
RAPUNZL$580,000
PRIMER MICROSCHOOLS FOUNDATION$500,000
RURAL SCHOOLS INNOVATION ZONE$250,000
ST MARYS ACADEMY$250,000
THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY$250,000
BODDLE LEARNING$250,000
AURORA SCIENCE AND TECH HIGH SCHOOL$225,000
CAFE MOMENTUM ACADEMY$210,000
THE LEARNING CENTER FOR THE DEAF$205,000
SPARK ACADEMY OF ADV TECH$200,000
PENN HILLS CHARTER SCHOOL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP$200,000
LIGUORI INC DBA LIGUORI ACADEMY$200,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.5M · 13 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152

Total granted

$9.5M

$37M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%

+60%

Still filing today

85%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

AA
ARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +298%
S
SAILFUTURE
2× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +709%
UC
UNCOMMON CONSTRUCTION
2× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +847% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

SM
ST MARY-BASHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $2.9M
KA
KHAN ACADEMY
one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -47%
NC
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +49%

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.

The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education

Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education

Alliance Charter Academy

Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.

Education

Parents in Partnership

Operate a charter school that prepares students for college through challenging methodologies.

Education

Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education

Achievement House Charter School

It is the mission of the achievement house cyber charter school to provide all students with an experience that is complete with improved personal outcome and academic success and achievement in a rich and personalized learning environment…

Education

Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide children with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education

Next Generation Education

To fulfill every student's individual potential by personalizing an educational plan.

Education

Vista Charter Public Schools Inc

At vista, students master core subjects through the power of applying knowledge in a real-world context. in addition to rigorous academics, our schools focus on increased proficiency in crucial areas such as critical thinking, problem…

Education

Innovation Charter High School

Public charter high school in new york city that promotes leadership through innovation.

Education

Science Academies of New York

The Schools seek to graduate students who can think critically and creatively.

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Independence Academy

Independency academy mission statement: at independence academy charter school, how children learn is as important as what they learn. our mission is to inspire learners to engage in challenges and demonstrate resiliency. we nuture…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Preparatory Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Uncommon Construction Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%4/191

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,819,374

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.

05the grantee network

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

136/137

Grantees still filing

108/137

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$29,005,600Other$15,870,703Arts & Culture$2,950,000Youth Development$1,960,000Human Services$1,670,000Recreation & Sports$1,270,500Civil Rights$250,000

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Charter Fund IncCO52.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc · New Schools Fund · The Drexel Fund · 50can Inc · National School Choice Awareness · Big Shoulders Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Canning Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Project Lead the Way Inc

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 organisation THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AERA FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~162249 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861791406 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AERA FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 162249 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Center for Education Reform?

Find your warmest path to The Center for Education Reform through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Center for Education Reform?

More from the funding graph

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

137 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Center for Education Reform?

More from the funding graph