Rhode Island · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,365,961 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($875,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporatedlocal
- Tntp Incportfolio match
- Educauseportfolio match
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.
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 69% · 2018 46% · 2019 0% · 2021 13% · 2023 50% · 2024 71% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $150k → $226k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY'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 $491k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $875k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- June Rockwell Levy Foundation IncorporatedlocalRI · funds 124 organizations near you
- Tntp Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Educauseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Schools Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate Great Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellwether Education Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Next Gen Personal Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Camelback Venturesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.2M on record.
- Department of Education$19.2M
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 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY?
- CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,365,961 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($875,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,365,961 in grants to CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY?
- THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing