Washington · Nonprofit
BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE
BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,384 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,020,508). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $180k
What Black Education Strategy Roundtable does
Mission
The public education system is failing to deliver an effective learning environment of culturally-relevant instruction that benefits Black/African American students in an equitable way. This educational failure is undermining the Black/African American community at its foundation. The Black Education Strategy Roundtable tackles some of our communities' toughest problems by advocating for educational change, reform and transformation. Our mission is to achieve systemic changes in education that result in excellence and equity for Black/African American students at all levels of the education continuum and raise the bar for all students. We work to achieve the goal of 100% of Black/African American students will graduate with a meaningful high school diploma, exceptionally prepared for college, work, productive citizenship and life.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Student and Family Engagement:Primary work was focused on researching the Status of the BlackStudent in Washington. We have undertaken a multiyear project investigating inequities experienced by (Continued on Schedule O, Statement 4)
$177,500 spentof which $177,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $177,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $414k to $682k (+65%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Lyle Quasim
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $269k → $16.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 56% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE has grown faster than half of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE?
- BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,704,384 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,020,508). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,704,384 in grants to BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,020,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK EDUCATION STRATEGY ROUNDTABLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing