Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION
FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,927,639 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,895,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $969k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $368k
What Free Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education does
Mission
The equity lab seeks to disrupt racial and ethnic inequity by engaging organizations in issues of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (redi). We help individuals to develop a deep understanding of their own identity and the historical and cultural contexts in which we all operate, and we empower them to become agents of progress in their personal and professional spheres. We serve as an objective third party to our clients, providing honest guidance, ongoing partnership, and a safe, compassionate space to do what we know is serious, difficult, and deeply necessary work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Long-term engagements are designed to meet the needs of organizations that are ready and committed to becoming anti-racist leaders for equity but are unsure of how to get there. Tel's engagements require extensive collaboration with leadership and a steering committee over the course of one to two years. Organizations will transform through individual growth, revision of policies and procedures with an equity lens, and team-level alignment to an organization-wide vision for equity.
$722,742 spent$664,571 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe nexus fellowship is a national fellowship that helps leaders to create long-term organizational change around race and equity. As a yearlong program, the nexus experience engages participants and their host organizations in a deep personalized leadership journey based on their identities around three specific design challenges: challenges with people, challenges with processes, and challenges with programs.
$228,605 spent$100,313 earned by the program16% of program spendingSeeding disruption is a washington, dc-based fellowship that helps educators and youth- facing professionals use equity-driven design thinking to solve specific problems in their work. Over the course of 13 months, participants develop their skills and knowledge as leaders for equity; build community across racial difference, organizations, and fields; and generate, seed, and catalyze disruptive practices for purposes of dismantling systems of racial inequity in washington, dc.
$281,072 spentof which $52,100 as grants$30,560 earned by the program20% of program spendingTel is a growing organization that is looking to become a thought leader in the equity space. As such, tel writes blog pieces, spreads its ideas on social media and its website, and looks to amplify the voices of its fellowship community. Tel is continuously revising its communications to best meet the needs of the field and attract attention to its impact as it looks to gain partners and supporters in the work. Additionally, following participation in its fellowships and long-term engagements, tel creates perpetual spaces for connection, healing, and innovation through our online alumni network. While still a burgeoning part of its offerings during the pandemic, tel's online and in-person alumni activities are meant to continue the iterative process around redi work and give its leaders a space to make further connections autonomously.
$205,245 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,437,664.
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.
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 $3.3M to $1.6M (−51%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Molitor
Founder & executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $350k → $595k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $461k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Education Forward DC). These are real filings, and they are not money FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION’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
FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 52% · 2022 67% · 2023 84% — 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
43% of FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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.
Against its field
FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION?
- FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,927,639 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,895,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,927,639 in grants to FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,895,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION 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.
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 12 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