Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION
EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,309,105 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,786,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Education Writers Association does
Mission
The mission of the Education Writers Association is to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For more than 75 years, ewa has supported journalists covering education through professional development, community, resources, and recognition. As the national professional association for reporters, editors, producers, and other journalists on the education beat, ewa works to strengthen education journalism and elevate its impact. Ewas long-term vision is grounded in the belief that: strong education journalism helps create informed citizens and leaders. Informed citizens and leaders make better decisions about education. Better decisions lead to stronger student outcomes and a more engaged society. High-quality education reporting plays an essential role in public understanding of schools, colleges, policy, and learning. Supporting journalists and strengthening the beat are central to ewas mission. Organizational values ewas work is guided by four core values: quality - supporting members in producing accurate, insightful, and impactful journalism. Community - building connections among professionals covering education and encouraging collaboration and learning. Professionalism - promoting fairness, accuracy, transparency, and editorial independence. Diversity - encouraging a…
$2,596,641 spentof which $91,000 as grants$171,510 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,596,641.
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.
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 $4.9M to $7.2M (+47%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $635k → $3.0M.
4 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 WRITERS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 WRITERS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 32% · 2019 58% · 2020 19% · 2021 30% · 2022 22% · 2023 27% — 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
68% of EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 WRITERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like EDUCATION WRITERS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 WRITERS ASSOCIATION: 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 WRITERS ASSOCIATION?
- EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,309,105 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,786,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $15,309,105 in grants to EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,786,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 32 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