· Private foundation
The Educational Foundation of America
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k110 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k96 grants · $8.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PSYCHEDELIC SAFETY INSTITUTE | $206,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| KANSAS COMMON SENSE FUND | $200,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART | $175,000 |
| PIKE SCHOOL OF ART - MISSISSIPPI | $160,000 |
| RISE CHATTANOOGA | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $150,000 |
| WORMFARM INSTITUTE | $135,000 |
| SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE | $135,000 |
| ALABAMA AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS HERITAGE SITES CONSORTIUM | $125,000 |
| NW ENERGY COALITION | $125,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS | $125,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Educational Foundation of America’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
189 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CECLEAN ENERGY WORKS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +154% · 27% of their budget
- RHREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +24% · 50% of their budget
- CDCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $988k · revenue +270%
Funded once
- COCITY OF ASYLUMone grant, 2022 · $520k · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE CENTER FOR CLIMATE FINANCEone grant, 2022 · $400k
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinoisone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
350 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. 350 of the 380 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORMFARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Artsrevive Community Development Co ↗
- Who funds PARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds NW ENERGY COALITION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CE BUYERS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds San Juan Citizens Alliance ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE RIFFRAFF ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE EQUITY ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Prentice Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ettinger Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Windward Fund
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 Educational Foundation of America 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.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Economic Opportunities Council of I — 82% of income from government
- Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
- Fit Kids of America Corp — 23% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Variety Children's Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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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