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EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,155,175 to it, the largest being Alice L Walton Foundation ($50,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$135M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$119M
Net assets
$476M
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Equitable Facilities Fund Inc does

Mission

Eff is a nonprofit social impact fund that believes all children deserve a quality education. We empower high-performing public charter schools with equitable access to low-cost, long-term financing by innovatively combining mission-related investments and capital markets.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The equitable facilities fund leverages donations and other philanthropic monies it receives and holds to enable charter schools to borrow more cheaply and effectively. Designing, implementing and maintaining this new source of capital for charter school facilities will ultimately lead to improved public education for children.

    $29,955,339 spent$40,694,294 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,955,339.

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 ($154M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($152M)2020 Revenue 31 ($48M) Expenses 515 ($9.6M) Net assets 159 ($242M)2021 Revenue 22 ($35M) Expenses 807 ($15M) Net assets 173 ($264M)2022 Revenue 71 ($110M) Expenses 1321 ($25M) Net assets 228 ($347M)2023 Revenue 48 ($74M) Expenses 1709 ($32M) Net assets 257 ($392M)2024 Revenue 88 ($135M) Expenses 2781 ($52M) Net assets 313 ($476M)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (88)Expenses (2781)Net assets (313)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5B to $1.9B (+30%).

$153M
$575M
$844M
$1.2B
$1.5B
$1.9B
201820202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

51% of EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 731 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$152M
’18
$39M
’20
$20M
’21
$85M
’22
$42M
’23
$83M
’24
0.4
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

Anand Kesavan

CEO

Board chair

Buddy Philpot

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820202021202220232024
Listed41013121112
Joined··+3+4+3+1
No longer listed··0540
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $7.9M.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC’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

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC.

42%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 84% · 2023 38% — 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

33% of EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

OR
NV
PA
AR
TX

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 696 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 696 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.5M on record — $40.1M federal, $388k state.

Federal$40.1M
grants $40.1Mcontracts $0
20
21
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$40.0M
  • Department of the Treasury$125k
State$388k
Top programs
  • LOANS$388k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Equitable School Revolving Fund LLC · disregarded
  • National Association of Charter School Authorizers · exempt
  • National Alliance for Public Charter Schools · exempt
  • Equitable Community Ventures Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC?
EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,155,175 to it, the largest being Alice L Walton Foundation ($50,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $119,155,175 in grants to EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC?
Alice L Walton Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 13 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