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CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS

CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,484,671 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,010,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$570k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$0
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Charter Board Partners D/B/A Education Board Partners does

Mission

Education board partners helps public charter schools and education nonprofit boards raise their game, focus on their mission, and hold schools accountable for student success.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education board partners promotes and fosters exceptional governance in public charter schools and education nonprofits so that every organization has the board it needs to improve student achievement based on research and experience. Education board partners supports and promotes strong governance by 1) recruiting and training motivated and talented individuals and matching them to boards that need their skills and experience, 2) providing consulting, training, and tools to education board members that help them govern for student success, 3) building and sustaining a network of energized and engaged charter school and education organization board members.

    $792,564 spent$218,887 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $792,564.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 74 ($768k) Expenses 115 ($1.3M) Net assets 62 ($759k)2019 Revenue 81 ($832k) Expenses 128 ($1.4M) Net assets 16 ($190k)2020 Revenue 163 ($1.7M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 52 ($629k)2021 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 115 ($1.3M) Net assets 37 ($447k)2022 Revenue 119 ($1.2M) Expenses 109 ($1.2M) Net assets 39 ($477k)2023 Revenue 55 ($570k) Expenses 90 ($988k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (55)Expenses (90)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $262k to $885k (+237%).

$1.3M
$871k
$262k
$885k
$671k
$615k
$0
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$65k
’17
−$496k
’18
−$569k
’19
$439k
’20
−$182k
’21
$30k
’22
−$418k
’23
5.7
months of
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.

Chief executive

Carrie Irvin

CEO & co-founder

Board chair

Charles Hooper

Chair

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed161516911108
Joined·+1+4+0+5+1+1
No longer listed·237323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $616k → $50k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS’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

CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 61% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 80% — 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

30% of CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.

WA
NY
NV
IA
CA
CO
AR
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

36%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS?
CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,484,671 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,010,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,484,671 in grants to CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS?
Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARTER BOARD PARTNERS D/B/A EDUCATION BOARD PARTNERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 13 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing