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Educational Results Partnership

Educational Results Partnership (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,312 to it, the largest being THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ($1,066,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$720k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Educational Results Partnership does

Mission

Educational Results Partnership is a non-profit organization that applies data science to help improve student outcomes and career readiness throughout the educational system. Our goal is to ensure that more students enter the workforce with the skills todays global economy demands. In partnership with educators and employers, we are charting the pathways that lead to academic success and living-wage jobs. We have accumulated the nations largest database on student achievement from kindergarten into the labor market. We use data science and predictive analytics to identify successful public education systems, practices, programs, and policies that are delivering the best results for students. We are committed to closing equity gaps in education and the labor market. Our research centers on improving academic and workforce outcomes for all, including students of color, foster youth, and students in high-poverty regions.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational Results Partnership provides an on-line school improvement system free of charge to California's public schools and communities. The organization promotes measurably improved academic achievement in public schools through focused use of achievement data, research and effective school improvement strategies from across the state and nation.

    $981,831 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. The edresults.org website presents an accurate academic picture showing the strengths, weaknesses, long-term progress and realistic improvement targets for every public school in California through data.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $981,831.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 175 ($4.6M) Expenses 102 ($2.7M) Net assets 196 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 228 ($6.0M) Expenses 130 ($3.4M) Net assets 328 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 170 ($4.5M) Expenses 157 ($4.2M) Net assets 345 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 146 ($3.9M) Expenses 302 ($8.0M) Net assets 139 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 154 ($4.1M) Expenses 220 ($5.8M) Net assets 52 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 131 ($3.5M) Expenses 145 ($3.8M) Net assets 33 ($669k)2024 Revenue 47 ($1.3M) Expenses 46 ($1.2M) Net assets 36 ($720k)
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Revenue (47)Expenses (46)Net assets (36)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 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $3.4M (−56%).

$2.3M
$4.2M
$6.9M
$7.7M
$3.4M
$2.0M
$1.3M
$865k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Educational Results Partnership’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$2.6M
’19
$338k
’20
−$4.1M
’21
−$1.8M
’22
−$381k
’23
$42k
’24
0.1
months of
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

James Lanich PhD

CEO

Board chair

Marilyn Reznick

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+1+3+7+4+6+1
No longer listed·1121647
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $185k → $50k.

From the IRS filings of Educational Results Partnership’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

Educational Results Partnership leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% 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 Educational Results Partnership.

55%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 82% · 2020 86% · 2021 67% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — 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

13% of Educational Results Partnership's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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

Educational Results Partnership draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

IL
CA
DE

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Educational Results Partnership's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Educational Results Partnership

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • CBEE Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Educational Results Partnership?
Educational Results Partnership (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,926,312 to it, the largest being THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ($1,066,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Educational Results Partnership have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,926,312 in grants to Educational Results Partnership, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Educational Results Partnership?
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,066,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Educational Results Partnership find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 9 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