New York · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,707,449 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,535,738). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Council for Economic Education does
Mission
The mission of the Council for Economic Education (cee) is to equip k12 students with the tools and knowledge of personal finance and economics so that they can make better decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities. We carry out our mission in three ways. We advocate to require personal finance and economic education in every state. We provide training, tools and resources online and live through over 180 affiliates nationwide to more than 40,000 teachers annually who in turn bring the highest quality economics and personal finance instruction to over 4 million students. We deepen knowledge and introduce high school students to critical career capabilities through our national personal finance challenge, national economics challenge, and invest in girls program.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cee's core activities support improving k-12 economic and financial education through delivery of teacher professional development trainings (to more than 50,000 teachers each year) and the development of engaging, interactive resources that align to state and national standards.cee's core programs include the following kinds of activities:- conduct professional development online and offline- create resources and curriculum- produce and support standards and assessment- advocate for personal finance and economic education- conduct the national economics challenge and the national personal finance challenge - create and provide teacher awards
$3,947,833 spentof which $220,016 as grants$1,010,973 earned by the program87% of program spendingOther program services include marketing our resources and professional development opportunities to teachers, and providing our resources in an increasing number of formats, including online, video and webinars in addition to print and in-person.
$583,463 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,531,296.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.6M to $3.3M (−42%).
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 5% · 2022 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Nan J Morrison
President & CEO
Board chair
Rebecca Patterson
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $343k → $1.5M.
29 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
49% 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 COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 52% · 2019 34% · 2020 17% · 2021 29% · 2022 14% · 2023 22% — 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
35% of COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 175 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 175 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.
- MA$100k
- DE$2k
- NJ$245
- OK$175
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 COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: 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 COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION (New York) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,707,449 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,535,738). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $13,707,449 in grants to COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,535,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 119 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