New York · Nonprofit
Center for Educational Innovation Inc
Center for Educational Innovation Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,242,498 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,565,531). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Center for Educational Innovation Inc does
Mission
Effective public education is essential to the success of a democratic society. Themission of Center for Educational Innovation, Inc. (CEI) is threefold:1) Assist public schools in New York City and other communities in improving thequality of public education. Our professional experience and expertise help schoolsto create more productive environments in which students thrive academically,socially and emotionally. With our support, schools develop better leadership,better teaching and better systems of accountability;2) Based upon CEI's work with individual schools, advocate for policies andpractices that will lead to successful schools;3) Provide information to the public about the importance of quality publiceducation and the means of achieving it. To those ends, CEI assists large schools torestructure into sets of smaller learning communities, works with teams to createand develop charter schools, trains principals in effective leadership skills, andfacilitates collaboration betwee
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Schools - Community Schools organize resources so that academics, health, youth development, and family empowerment are integrated into the fabric of the school to support the whole child.CEI leads a network of 17 Community Schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan.The Four Core Features of a Community School Strategy are as follows:COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP AND PRACTICEFAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTEXPANDED LEARNING TIMEWELLNESS AND INTEGRATED SUPPORT
$5,466,675 spent46% of program spendingPublic School Consulting- Includes customized services, technical assistance, school improvement planning and implementation, leadership development and content area support to superintendents, school leaders, teacher teams, coaches, teachers, and all members of the school community. By design, with aligment to the mission, with a renewed focus on equity and innovation, experienced team members work to build capacity to create the model schools their children need to succeed. Service is delivered in a multitude of modalities including mentoring and coaching, facilitated professional learning in small and large groups, modeling and delivering leadership development and pedagogical support in all content areas tp ensure for improved teaching and learning with measured improvements in student achievement and all areas of the school community.
$2,788,508 spent24% of program spendingOther programs - include school improvement activities through our field supportservices, grant funded academic and enrichment services such as NYC Immigrant andCASA funded enrichment and NYC DYCD Summer Rising, which are all consistent with themission of the Organization. The Organization is now a lead agency with contractsfor two NYC Community Schools. This citywide school improvement strategy supports services delivered by the lead agency, community partners and the school community.This organization's mission is aligned to this initiative and with a focus onacademic improvement, provides comprehensive support in all areas, aligned with thetraditional school day, coordinating all programs and services, and infuses itsphilosophy, with a focus on equity and innovation, to develop model communityschools in all neighborhoods. The Community Schools program supports the wholechild and the childs family, with learning both inside and outside of the classroom. The Organization supports the staffing to identify and coordinate all partnerships,delivery of direct academic and enrichment service including elements of ProjectBOOST, professional learning for school staff as well as all…
$1,629,701 spent14% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Project BOOST - (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is theOrganizations signature student enrichment program, which historically targets middle school students, who have demonstrated academic talents but do not have thefinancial resources necessary to cultivate and enrich their academic experience. Theoriginal overall goal of the program is to assist and to inspire participatingmiddle school students in gaining admission to the highest quality high school, inNYC, being the Specialized High Schools. Overall, the program has grown to includeschools in and out of NYC and as such, the goal has now broadened to inspire middleschool students to gain admission into the best high school program possible, tonurture the talents and interests of students and help them identify college andcareer pathways. The Organization offers a triad of direct student services to buildacademic, cultural, social and service skills necessary for long-term studentgrowth, academic enrichment, cultural enrichment and college to career development.In 2011, Project BOOST was extended to include the Organization's Early Stagesprogram. The Organizations Early Stages provides…
$1,902,808 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,787,692.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $13M (+107%).
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: 2017 67% · 2018 60% · 2019 30% · 2020 25% · 2021 27% · 2022 85% · 2023 32% · 2024 66% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Center for Educational Innovation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Patrick Duff
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $1.7M.
10 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Center for Educational Innovation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
Center for Educational Innovation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Center for Educational Innovation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 81% · 2019 76% · 2020 68% · 2021 66% · 2022 33% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of Center for Educational Innovation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
51% of Center for Educational Innovation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.6M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Center for Educational Innovation Inc's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Center for Educational Innovation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.6M on record.
- Department of Education$12.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Center for Educational Innovation Inc
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Educational Innovation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc?
- Center for Educational Innovation Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,242,498 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,565,531). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Center for Educational Innovation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $5,242,498 in grants to Center for Educational Innovation Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Educational Innovation Inc?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,565,531 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Educational Innovation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 52 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