Virginia · Nonprofit
EDUCATE FAIRFAX
EDUCATE FAIRFAX (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,237 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($164,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $705k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Educate Fairfax does
Mission
To energize the power of the community to invest in educational excellence and prepare students for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educate Fairfax is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit education foundation dedicated solely to supporting fairfax county public schools (fcps) students and educators. We mobilize the power of the community to invest in educational excellence by providing funding, resources, and strategic support that expand opportunities for students and empower educators. Fcps serves more than 183,000 students across 199 schools, one of the largest and most diverse school divisions in the nation, and private support plays a critical role in addressing emerging needs, fostering innovation, and expanding access to opportunity. Our work aligns directly with the fcps strategic plan and advances educational excellence, innovation, access, and opportunity across the division.
$930,075 spentof which $929,770 as grants100% of program spendingDuring the fiscal year, Educate Fairfax administered the following program services: 1. Educate Fairfax grants Educate Fairfax fuels school-based and classroom innovation through competitive grants that empower educators to bring bold ideas to life. In fy2025, 107 educator-led innovation grants were awarded to 100 fairfax county public schools and centers, including 24 title I schools, to enhance and extend the standard curriculum. These projects promote deeper learning, creativity, critical thinking, and student engagement impacting more than 36,000 students across diverse grade levels, subject areas, and regions of fcps. 2. Kids in need fund every student deserves the basics to thrive in school and beyond. Through the kids in need fund, Educate Fairfax provides essential resources to fairfax county public schools (fcps) students identified as facing economic hardship, removing barriers that interfere with learning. Support may include food security assistance; backpacks and classroom supplies; clothing and hygiene items; laptops, tablets, and internet access; and transportation support for internships, apprenticeships, and workforce development opportunities. By addressing these…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $930,075.
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 2019 to 2020, from $537k to $1.6M (+190%).
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.
99% of EDUCATE FAIRFAX’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Board chair
Cindy Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $39k → $40k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $195k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EDUCATE FAIRFAX raised.
From the IRS filings of EDUCATE FAIRFAX’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
EDUCATE FAIRFAX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
68% 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 EDUCATE FAIRFAX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 41% · 2019 66% · 2020 28% · 2021 51% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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
26% of EDUCATE FAIRFAX'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
63% of EDUCATE FAIRFAX's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $285k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
EDUCATE FAIRFAX runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EDUCATE FAIRFAX
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 EDUCATE FAIRFAX: 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 EDUCATE FAIRFAX?
- EDUCATE FAIRFAX (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,237 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($164,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATE FAIRFAX have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $705,237 in grants to EDUCATE FAIRFAX, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATE FAIRFAX?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $164,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATE FAIRFAX 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.
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 33 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