· Private foundation
The Institute for Educational Advancement Inc
To provide merit scholarships for educational advancement and excellence with the goal of increasing pre-college, college, and graduate level attendence, performance, and graduation rates in the united states.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACE ACADEMY | $38,640 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,667 |
| SUPERIOR FLIGHT SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BRENAU UNIVERSITY | $14,417 |
| BRENAU UNIVERSITY | $14,037 |
| BRENAU UNIVERSITY | $13,702 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $11,227 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $10,741 |
| BEYOND THE GAME | $10,000 |
| FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $9,607 |
| ATLANTA'S JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL | $8,045 |
| ATLANTA'S JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL | $7,714 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $6,247 |
| PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY | $5,278 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- BUBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +45%
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $61k · revenue +29%
- GPGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $740k
- RAR AND R MOBILITYone grant, 2019 · $136k
- IRINNOCENCE RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont University Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Welcome Home Animal Rescue Inc. 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 57 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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 70 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 BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds AYNI THE GIFT OF GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds King's Ridge Christian School ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Halle Foundation · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Tulsa Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc
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 Institute for Educational Advancement Inc 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.