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EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC

EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,230 to it, the largest being HELEN W POFFENBARGER AND PERRY S POFFENBARGER FOUNDATION ($37,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$155k
Net assets
$445k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Education Elevators Foundation Inc does

Mission

To elevate west virginia children by fostering mentoring relationships that fuel their curiosity and support their abilities to learn and thrive.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Match employees of local businesses with students in a mentoring capacity. During 2025, approximately 135 students from approximately 22 schools were matched with volunteers from approximately 21 different business organizations.

    $37,850 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,850.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($63k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2019 Revenue 81 ($66k) Expenses 73 ($46k) Net assets 116 ($145k)2020 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 71 ($45k) Net assets 145 ($181k)2021 Revenue 103 ($84k) Expenses 61 ($38k) Net assets 181 ($226k)2022 Revenue 122 ($99k) Expenses 71 ($45k) Net assets 225 ($281k)2023 Revenue 158 ($129k) Expenses 93 ($58k) Net assets 281 ($351k)2024 Revenue 114 ($93k) Expenses 86 ($54k) Net assets 313 ($390k)2025 Revenue 130 ($106k) Expenses 81 ($51k) Net assets 356 ($445k)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (81)Net assets (356)Peer revenue range

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 $281k to $351k (+25%).

$125k
$145k
$181k
$226k
$281k
$351k
$390k
$445k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’18
$20k
’19
$36k
’20
$45k
’21
$55k
’22
$70k
’23
$39k
’24
$55k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Allison Mcjunkin

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $25k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

60% 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 EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC.

24%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2019 38% · 2020 99% · 2021 37% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — 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

60% of EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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

60% of EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC'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 $62k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from West Virginia funders.

WV
AL
TX
FL

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

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’23
West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin52% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC

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 West Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

95%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC?
EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,230 to it, the largest being HELEN W POFFENBARGER AND PERRY S POFFENBARGER FOUNDATION ($37,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $155,230 in grants to EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC?
HELEN W POFFENBARGER AND PERRY S POFFENBARGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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