Virginia · Nonprofit
CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,213 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($244,192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $500k
What Correctional Education Association does
Mission
To prepare correctional education students for a successful re-entry into society by equipping them with academic career/technical, and personal/social skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Audit standards - the association has contracted with correctional facilities around the country to perform educational standards compliance audits including state agencies, counties, private correctional facilities and other correctional facilities to award educational accreditations based on the findings. Cea has begun training new auditors to expand their education standards compliance audits.
$62,338 spent36% of program spendingCea conferences - the organization hosts two conferences per year. There is the forum in the spring and the annual conference and training event in the summer. The april 2025 forum was hosted by cea-region 4 in omaha, nebraska. The annual conference and training event was hosted by cea region-1 in pittsburgh, pennsylvania.
$47,464 spent27% of program spendingPublications - Correctional Education Association publishes the Correctional Education Association journal 3 times per year. Cea provides our editor and the technical editor for the journal as well as the mailing service once the journal is published. The journal is a scholarly publication recognized in the field of correctional education.
$51,749 spent30% of program spendingMembership.
$13,361 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,912.
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 $360k to $505k (+40%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $244k → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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
CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- OK$9k
- VT$580
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 CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,213 to it, the largest being STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($244,192). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $244,213 in grants to CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $244,192 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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