Rhode Island · Nonprofit
PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,506 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($682,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $707k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $743k
What PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY does
Mission
To fight for the voices of parents of color at decision-making tables and for a high-quality public school for every child of color in rhode island
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
PLEE launched a Multilingual Language Learners (MLL) Advisory Council and Advocacy 101 framework, which will help educate families on how to leverage their collective power to improve the outcomes of MML students. PLEE also convened a 7 parent group from Providence, Woonsocket, Pawtucket and Central Falls to advance policies that will help improve access to high quality early intervention and pre-K services to children with disabilities.
$552,545 spent$1,825 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $552,545.
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 2021 to 2022, from $353k to $526k (+49%).
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: 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Ramona Santos Torres
Secretary/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $528k → $640k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY’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
PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 81% · 2022 44% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $546k 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
PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,990 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,990 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: 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 PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY?
- PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY (Rhode Island) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,506 to it, the largest being NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ($682,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,205,506 in grants to PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY?
- NELLIE MAE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $682,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 7 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