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The Children's Education Initiative

THE CHILDREN'S EDUCATION INITIATIVE (tcei) is dedicated to improving the quality of education for socioeconomically disadvantaged children.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$123,444
Largest grant, FY2024
$321,792
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$112M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$2.6M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin Country Day School$350,00011%
The Squared Network$321,792156%
Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc$250,00012%
Saint Marks School Altadena Inc$206,7161n/a
The Potomac School$185,22610%
Los Encinos School$143,83512%
Mark Day School$123,44411%
Live Oak a Learning Center for Children$116,72511%
Redwood Day School$100,00011%
The Sequoyah Educational Center$100,00011%
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All grantees of The Children's Education Initiative by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin Country Day School$350,00011%
The Squared Network$321,792156%
Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc$250,00012%
Saint Marks School Altadena Inc$206,7161n/a
The Potomac School$185,22610%
Los Encinos School$143,83512%
Mark Day School$123,44411%
Live Oak a Learning Center for Children$116,72511%
Redwood Day School$100,00011%
The Sequoyah Educational Center$100,00011%
Town School for Boys$100,00020%
The Bush School$100,00010%
Sheridan School$50,00010%
Crane Country Day School$50,00010%
Westside Neighborhood School$50,00010%
Echo Foundation$50,00011%
Academy Hill School Inc$50,00013%
The Riviera Ridge School$50,00011%
Hillbrook School$50,00010%
Island Pacific Academy Inc$50,00010%
Hawaii Preparatory Academy$50,00010%
Frances Xavier Warde School Nfp$50,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Children's Education Initiative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarin Country Day School: $350,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Squared Network: $321,792 over 1y, 56% of budgetColorado Rocky Mountain School Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Potomac School: $185,226 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLos Encinos School: $143,835 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMark Day School: $123,444 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLive Oak a Learning Center for Children: $116,725 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRedwood Day School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Sequoyah Educational Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTown School for Boys: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bush School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSheridan School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCrane Country Day School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestside Neighborhood School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEcho Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAcademy Hill School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHillbrook School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIsland Pacific Academy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHawaii Preparatory Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

United Way WorldwideVA20.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About The Children's Education Initiative

How much does The Children's Education Initiative give?
The Children's Education Initiative reported 12 grants totaling $1,597,738 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Children's Education Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Children's Education Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Marin Country Day School ($350k), The Squared Network ($322k), Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc ($250k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Children's Education Initiative?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The Children's Education Initiative based?
The Children's Education Initiative is based in CA.

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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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