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The Education Trust Inc

EdTrust is committed to advancing policies and practices to dismantle the racial and economic barriers embedded in the American education system.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.9MHuman Services$1.4MCivil Rights$1.3MPhilanthropy$938kCommunity Improvement$750kYouth Development$605kPublic Benefit$587kReligion$421kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $431k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
$60,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Education Resource Strategies Inc$158,333
Education Counsel$121,834
California Mathematics Council$80,000
San Joaquin County Office of Education$80,000
National Parents Union$77,500
National Urban League Inc$77,500
UnidosUS$77,500
All4Ed$77,500
Migration Policy Institute$75,000
Center for American Progress$75,000
SchoolHouse Connection$75,000
National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc$75,000
Educators for Excellence$75,000
Los Angeles United Methodist Urban Foundation (Kid City Hope)$70,000
Central Valley Movement Building Organization Institute$70,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY: $20k → 9%Docs for Tots: $15k → 13%The Children's Agenda Inc: $100k → 14%For Oak Cliff: $10k → 14%Detroit Parent Network: $30k → 21%UNITE Inc: $43k → 21%United Ways of Tennessee: $10k → 9%CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $55k → 12%Urban League of Westchester County: $20k → 9%Docs for Tots: $15k → 13%The Children's Agenda Inc: $100k → 14%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $15k → 21%Centro Hispano de East Tennessee: $15k → 12%Urban League of Westchester County: $20k → 9%The Children's Agenda Inc: $50k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S AGENDA INC: $50k → 14%Pivot Learning Partners: $130k → 10%DOCS FOR TOTS: $11k → 6%Pivot Learning Partners: $130k → 10%Urban League of Rochester NY Inc: $30k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $85k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $25k → 14%National Parents Union: $78k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $25k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $24k → 14%Tennessee Disability Coalition: $30k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $13k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $20k → 14%Urban League of Rochester NY Inc: $20k → 14%Urban League of Rochester NY Inc: $13k → 14%Buffalo Urban League: $30k → 13%California Community Colleges Calworks Association: $70k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission: $20k → 14%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $20k → 13%Buffalo Urban League: $20k → 13%National Urban League Inc: $78k → 17%National Urban League Inc: $43k → 17%Committee for Hispanic Children & Families: $30k → 17%COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $28k → 17%COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $25k → 17%COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $25k → 17%Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation: $25k → 17%Committee for Hispanic Children & Families: $23k → 17%Committee for Hispanic Children & Families: $20k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 78 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
81

Total granted

$10M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $899k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ER
    EDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +40%
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $366k · revenue +22%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COMPETESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +29%
  • TN
    The New Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $104k · revenue +35%
  • WC
    West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
The Urban Assembly Inc

To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.

International
2
Families in Schools

To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.

Education
3
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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4
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
5
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
6
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
7
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
8
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
9
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
10
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.

Housing & Shelter
11
Child Welfare League of America

Child welfare league of america engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices, and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Human Services
12
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nashville Teacher Residency. 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

160 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. 160 of the 181 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/160
Grantees still filing
101/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC: $2,103,557 · EducationEDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INCCALIFORNIA COMPETES: $500,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COMPETESPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $365,876 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLSTEACH PLUS INC: $281,750 · EducationCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $272,585 · EducationPRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC: $208,125 · Education+45 more: $2,291,866 · Education+45 moreLOS ANGELES URBAN FOUDATION: $170,424 · OtherUNIDOSUS: $153,816 · OtherSAN JOAQUIN COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $145,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC: $130,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $123,335 · OtherEducationCounsel LLC: $121,834 · OtherCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $246,424 · OtherCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR P…SCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC: $300,000 · OtherSCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS …+61 more: $1,990,122 · Other+61 moreThe Children's Agenda Inc: $310,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Ag…CHILDREN NOW: $260,876 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOWTIDES CENTER: $178,333 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $166,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF R…THE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMITTEE FOR…BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesBUFFALO URBAN LEA…NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LE…CENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $90,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF WESTCHESTER INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES CALWORKS ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Human Services+20 more: $391,000 · Human Services+20 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $310,091 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $196,780 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $52,250 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $40,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $17,500 · Community ImprovementRODEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DE: $191,375 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $173,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyYouth Together Inc: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of America: $79,091 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICA'S PROMISE THE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH: $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentCouncil of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Inc: $33,332 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC: $15,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $123,334 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $103,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $75,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $75,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $40,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $18,250 · Civil Rights
Education$6,023,759Other$3,505,955Human Services$2,058,709Community Improvement$616,621Philanthropy$520,125Youth Development$448,923Civil Rights$434,584

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC: $2,103,557 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMPETES: $500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $365,876 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $310,091 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetSCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC: $300,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $281,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $272,585 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $260,876 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $246,424 over 6y, 13% of budgetPRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC: $208,125 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $196,780 over 4y, 12% of budgetRODEL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DE: $191,375 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $178,333 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $173,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES URBAN FOUDATION: $170,424 over 5y, 11% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF ROCHESTER NY INC: $166,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMITTEE FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $158,091 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $153,816 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH LEARNERS SUCCESS FORUM: $140,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC: $130,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $125,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $123,335 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $123,334 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetYouth Together Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $114,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe New School: $104,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $103,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNBOUNDED LEARNING INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $92,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DE EAST TENNESSEE: $90,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES: $88,591 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $86,591 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $85,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetDIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE: $85,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCalifornia State Student Association: $80,833 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund: $80,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLACK CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION: $80,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS: $80,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBLACK EDUCATOR ADVOCATES NETWORK: $80,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF WESTCHESTER INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFuture Leaders of America: $79,091 over 4y, 1.8% 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.

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.

Gates FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Carnegie Corporation …The William & Flora H…Elbridge Stuart Found…The California Endowm…Raikes FoundationWalton Family Foundat…The Joyce FoundationThe Heising-Simons Fo…UnidosusWK Kellogg Foundation
Gates FoundationWA52.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The California Endowment · Raikes Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Joyce Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Unidosus · WK Kellogg Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Education Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Education Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Rodel Charitable Foundation - De: 20% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Education Resource Strategies Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 181 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home