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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.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
217
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$13MHealth$7.9MArts & Culture$7.6MPublic Benefit$4.7MCivil Rights$4.5MPhilanthropy$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.9MEducation$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 217 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k110 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k96 grants · $8.9M
$35,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$251M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$125,000
LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH$125,000
CLEAN ENERGY WORKS$125,000
NW ENERGY COALITION$125,000
FREEDOM QUILTING BEE LEGACY$125,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $210k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $520k → 11%PROYECTO FARO: $10k → 14%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $10k → 17%FUND ACCESS FORWARD: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $140k → 21%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $110k → 11%PROYECTO FARO: $9k → 14%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $9k → 17%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $110k → 11%ST PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT: $15k → 14%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $2k → 17%ST PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT: $14k → 14%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $90k → 29%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 11%ST PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT: $10k → 14%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $90k → 29%INSTITUTO LAB: $100k → 11%ST PAUL & RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $40k → 15%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $100k → 14%STUDENT ORGANIZING: $10k → 16%STUDENT ORGANIZING: $10k → 16%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $25k → 29%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $15k → 12%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $20k → 29%LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH: $125k → 13%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $10k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $10k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $5k → 12%POWER TO DECIDE: $200k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY: $200k → 14%THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY: $200k → 14%NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY: $200k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED: $7k → 17%POWER TO DECIDE: $100k → 14%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

AK
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Educational Foundation of America’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Educational Foundation of Americalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 189 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

189
119

Total granted

$40M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY WORKS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +154% · 27% of their budget
  • RH
    REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +24% · 50% of their budget
  • CD
    COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $988k · revenue +270%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF ASYLUM
    one grant, 2022 · $520k · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE CENTER FOR CLIMATE FINANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -8%
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
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
4
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
5
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

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…

Public Benefit
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
8
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
9
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
10
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
11
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
12
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

350 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. 350 of the 380 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
82
Early backer (in before they grew)
344/350
Grantees still filing
221/350
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: $1,077,000 · OtherINTERFAITH CENTER ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILI…SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $815,000 · OtherCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $987,600 · OtherCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION+87 more: $15,422,100 · Other+87 moreCLEAN ENERGY WORKS: $1,640,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN ENERGY WOR…SOUTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $525,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHEAST ENERGY…CE BUYERS INSTITUTE: $525,000 · EnvironmentCE BUYERS INSTIT…Solar United Neighbors Inc: $525,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Nei…APPALACHIAN VOICES: $425,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOIC…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $410,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DE…San Juan Citizens Alliance: $405,000 · EnvironmentSan Juan Citizen…CERES INC: $330,000 · EnvironmentThe Alliance For Collective Action: $254,000 · EnvironmentOregon Environmental Council: $250,000 · EnvironmentClimate Democracy Initiative: $239,000 · Environment+12 more: $1,549,000 · Environment+12 moreWORMFARM INSTITUTE INC: $704,000 · Arts & CultureWORMFARM INSTI…Artsrevive Community Development Co: $672,600 · Arts & CultureArtsrevive Com…PARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $627,600 · Arts & CulturePARADISE GARDE…Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium: $582,600 · Arts & CultureAlabama Africa…APPALSHOP INC: $447,600 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INCSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: $417,600 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT REG…THE RIFFRAFF ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $387,600 · Arts & CultureTHE RIFFRAFF A…WILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $332,600 · Arts & CultureWILLIAM KING M…UPSTATE FILMS LTD: $311,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $1,419,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $675,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY …AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVI…WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $475,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S HEALT…STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $450,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVAT…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $265,000 · Civil RightsFOOT SOLDIERS PARK INC: $257,600 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsDemocracy North Carolina: $244,000 · Civil RightsYOU CAN VOTE: $236,000 · Civil RightsGender IDEAL Inc dba Reproductive & Maternal Health Com: $215,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsNEW RIVER ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $192,000 · Civil Rights+14 more: $1,264,000 · Civil Rights+14 moreREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE: $1,205,000 · HealthREPRODUCTIV…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $600,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $455,000 · HealthKentucky He…SHARE EQUITY: $380,000 · HealthSHARE EQUIT…BLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $325,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE …PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $260,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $250,000 · HealthREASON FOR HOPE INC: $208,000 · HealthCENTER FOR NEW DATA: $175,000 · Health+10 more: $854,000 · Health+10 moreHOPEWELL FUND: $1,320,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $515,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $420,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 · PhilanthropyBIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $150,000 · PhilanthropyIndigo Bird: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $122,000 · PhilanthropyPOWER TO DECIDE: $900,000 · Human ServicesACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $530,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM: $520,000 · Human ServicesCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $200,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $105,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINA FEDERATION FUND: $100,000 · Human ServicesInstituto Lab: $100,000 · Human Services
Other$18,301,700Environment$7,077,000Arts & Culture$5,902,700Civil Rights$5,448,600Health$4,712,000Philanthropy$2,992,000Human Services$2,945,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEAN ENERGY WORKS: $1,640,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $1,320,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE: $1,205,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $987,600 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $900,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $815,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWORMFARM INSTITUTE INC: $704,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $675,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetArtsrevive Community Development Co: $672,600 over 5y, 53% of budgetPARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $627,600 over 4y, 50% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $600,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS: $600,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetAlabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium: $582,600 over 5y, 19% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $575,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNW ENERGY COALITION: $550,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $530,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSOUTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $525,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetCE BUYERS INSTITUTE: $525,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $520,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $515,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $515,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INC: $475,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $470,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $455,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $450,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $447,600 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $425,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $420,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: $417,600 over 3y, 22% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $410,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $405,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $396,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RIFFRAFF ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $387,600 over 4y, 21% of budgetSHARE EQUITY: $380,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $350,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM KING MUSEUM OF ART: $332,600 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCERES INC: $330,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL ACTION INC: $325,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $325,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $321,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD: $311,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $300,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $295,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGlass House Collective: $285,000 over 2y, 34% 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.

The Prentice Foundati…Hopewell FundAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ettinger Foundati…New Venture FundUnited States Energy …Rockefeller Family Fu…The Susan Thompson Bu…NEO Philanthropy IncMary Reynolds Babcock…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncWindward Fund
The Prentice Foundation IncDE109.1× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Educational Foundation of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Educational Foundation of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Educational Foundation of America?

Find your warmest path to The Educational Foundation of America through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

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 380 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-PF 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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