Michigan · Nonprofit
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,663 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $850k
What Education for Liberation Network does
Mission
To help underserved young people and communities understand the causes of inequalities and injustice in society and how communities have fought against them, develop both a deep belief in themselves that they can challenge those injustices and the skills necessary to do so.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education Projects - When members of the Board of Directors have projects that are deeply meaningful to them and are aligned with the organization's mission and vision, Education for Liberation Network will engage in amplifying and broadening that work. There are currently four Board-led projects which the organization is actively supporting: Ethnic Studies Coalition, Lessons in Liberation, and EdLib Minnesota
$45,604 spent100% of program spendingFree Minds Free People (FMFP). Free Minds, Free People (FMFP) is a national conference presented by the Education for Liberation Network that brings together teachers, young people, researchers, parents, and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation. The conference is a space in which these groups learn from and teach each other by sharing knowledge, experience, and strategies. The conference has been held every other year since 2007 in the following cities: Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, Providence, Ri, Oakland, CA, and Baltimore, MD. The conference has grown in participation each time we have convened FMFP. There was no conferene in 2024, and the conference currently remains on pause while being reimagined. A smaller number of gatherings may take place in 2025 to support this visioning process.
$200 spent0% of program spendingPlanning to Change the World: a Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers is a plan book for educators who believe their students can and will change the world. It is designed to help teachers translate their vision of a just education into concrete classroom activities. The planner includes weekly planning pages, references to online lesson plans and resources, inspirational quotes, tips from social justice teachers, essential questions to sparkclassroom discussions, and reproducible social justice awards with students. In the past the Executive Director oversaw coordination, management and editing of the plan book. This year the workload was managed and organized by members of the Board of Directors and a team of volunteers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $971k to $861k (−11%).
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.
55% of EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $250k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FOR LIBERATION NETWORK’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
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 FOR LIBERATION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 40% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k 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
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK: 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 EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK?
- EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,002,663 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,002,663 in grants to EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK?
- NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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