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The Institute for Educational Advancement Inc at a glance

· 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.

$226k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$39k
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 2024.

Education$1.7MCrime & Legal$105kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$20kRecreation & Sports$17kHealth$10kScience & Tech$7kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
$7,714
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION$10,000
BEYOND THE GAME$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
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLLEGE AMERICA: $15k → 11%AYNI THE GIFT OF GIVING FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%INNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 10%ADRIAN COLLEGE: $12k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $19k → 12%GIRLS PREPATORY SCHOOL: $25k → 14%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 14%PINECREST ACADEMY: $70k → 4%KENNSAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 8%R AND R MOBILITY: $136k → 11%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%THE GALLOWAY SCHOOL: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GA: $21k → 27%INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROG: $17k → 7%VIRGINIA COMMON WEALTH: $44k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $18k → 12%GIRLS PREPATORY SCHOOL: $24k → 14%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%SUPERIOR FLIGHT SCHOOL: $15k → 8%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%KING'S RIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GA: $17k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $15k → 12%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 14%KENNSAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%MOUNT VERNON PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL: $24k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $15k → 12%EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%THE DAVIS ACADEMY: $45k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $15k → 12%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%UNION CITY GEORGIA: $740k → 13%GEORIGA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $16k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $14k → 12%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $14k → 12%GEORGIA TECH UNIVERSITY: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $13k → 12%NATIONAL BLACK BANK FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%PACE ACADEMY: $39k → 13%ST PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGHT SCHOOL: $16k → 14%FUSION LEARNING CENTER: $26k → 13%ST PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGHT SCHOOL: $16k → 14%ST PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGHT SCHOOL: $16k → 14%FUSION LEARNING CENTER: $26k → 13%FUSION LEARNING CENTER: $16k → 13%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

ID
WI
MI
OH
PA
VA
AZ
KS
TN
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 31 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
34

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+33%

Still filing today

23%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • BU
    BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +45%
  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $61k · revenue +29%
  • GP
    GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $740k
  • RA
    R AND R MOBILITY
    one grant, 2019 · $136k
  • IR
    INNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Coker University

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…

Education
2
Lehigh University

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…

Education
3
Furman University

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.

Education
4
Goucher College

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…

Education
5
University of the South

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…

Education
6
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
7
Spelman College

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.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
10
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
11
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

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,…

Education
12
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $740,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGA: $172,987 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE CHATTANOOGAR AND R MOBILITY: $135,610 · OtherR AND R MOBILITYINNOCENCE RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $87,903 · OtherEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $81,149 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY: $73,060 · Other+46 more: $749,511 · Other+46 moreBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC: $82,902 · EducationBRENAU UNIVERSITY I…THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $60,572 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF …GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $49,690 · EducationGIRLS PREPARATORY S…THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $44,830 · EducationTHE ALFRED AND ADEL…VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $43,740 · EducationVIRGINIA COMMONWEAL…PACE ACADEMY INC: $38,640 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $37,959 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF G…Samford University: $22,600 · EducationKing's Ridge Christian School: $19,995 · Education+4 more: $46,329 · Education+4 moreTHE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS: $17,175 · InternationalBEYOND THE GAME: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthA WELCOME HOME ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,000 · Animals
Other$2,140,220Education$447,257International$17,175Youth Development$10,000Health$10,000Animals$4,000

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 budgetBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC: $82,902 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $60,572 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $49,690 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $44,830 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $43,740 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $38,640 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $37,959 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC: $25,170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamford University: $22,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS: $17,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC: $14,418 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSEPH SAMS SCHOOL INC: $11,886 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND THE GAME: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREE TO SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY INC: $8,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $7,485 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Community Foundat…Ibm International Fou…Folds of Honor Founda…Verizon FoundationThe Halle FoundationCommunity Foundation …Tulsa Community Found…Community Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity FoundationMcKesson Foundation I…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Institute for Educational Advancement Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Institute for Educational Advancement Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 70 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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