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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SQUARED NETWORK | $321,792 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC | $250,000 |
| STMARK'S SCHOOL | $206,716 |
| THE POTOMAC SCHOOL | $185,226 |
| LOS ENCINOS SCHOOL | $143,835 |
| MARK DAY SCHOOL | $123,444 |
| LIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $116,725 |
| ECHO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHERIDAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| THE FRANCES XAVIER WARDE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…
Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Redwood Day School and the most unlike its peers is The Squared Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SQUARED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Potomac School ↗
- Who funds LOS ENCINOS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Sequoyah Educational Center ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PACIFIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL ↗
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.
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
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 The Children's Education Initiative 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.
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.
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