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The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc

Named for the co-founder and visionary behind sesame street, the joan ganz cooney center is an independent research and innovation lab within sesame workshop that advances positive futures for kids in the digital world. We conduct research (see schedule o)on emerging technologies and collaborate with technologists, digital media…

$24k
Granted FY2020
3
Itemized grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$19k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$6,250
Largest grant, FY2020
$6,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$34M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$19k0%
FY20195$161k60%
FY20181$55k0%
FY20173$175kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Public Benefit$252kScience & Tech$76kSocial Science$70kEducation$64k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New America Foundation$252,00030%
Frameworks Institute$70,00021%
Zeno$25,00021%
Idaho Public Television$25,0002n/a
National Writing Project Corporation$25,00020%
University of Washington Foundation$13,3671n/a

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About The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc

How much does The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc give?
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $18,750, out of $23,553 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Public Benefit (55%), Science & Tech (16%), Social Science (15%).
Who are The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: New America Foundation ($252k), Frameworks Institute ($70k), Zeno ($25k).
Does The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc based?
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc is based in NY.

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 8 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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