Maryland · Nonprofit
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,433 to it, the largest being TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION TO EMPOWER THE POOR AND END WAR ($360,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $560k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Peace Action Education Fund does
Mission
Peace Action Education Fund (paef) is dedicated to increasing public understanding of nuclear and conventional disarmament, human rights abuses and the arms trade, and that national and global security requires working cooperatively with the international community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peace education:paef leaders play a leadership role in several important coalitions including the nuclear weapons working group, back from the brink, people over pentagon, lift sanctions save lives (paef an original founder), the korea peace network, iran working group, syria-iraq working group, pentagon budget campaign, budget priorities working group, and other groupings that bring together. Washington, dc-based disarmament organizations, congressional offices and other policymakers to help coordinate congressional education on issues ranging from stopping the global arms trade and ending the war on yemen.the outbreak of wars on gaza and ukraine bring with them the threat of escalation, up to and including the existential threat of nuclear war. A series of complex policy issues, like the demand for a ceasefire in each of these wars, confront our supporters and the general public. Paef serves as a clearinghouse for reliable information and offers policy alternatives for those who favor a peaceful resolution to each conflict.
$161,113 spentof which $363 as grants41% of program spendingOrganizational development:paef staff convenes a conference call with local activists every other week providing updates on issues they are tracking and facilitating information sharing between local groups in paef activist network.
$50,338 spentof which $290 as grants13% of program spendingNational campaigns:see schedule o
$181,097 spentof which $798 as grants46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $392,548.
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 $566k to $1.3M (+135%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Rainwater
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $62k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND’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
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 49% · 2019 61% · 2020 49% · 2021 36% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
55% of PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $466k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $567k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $100
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.
Organizations like PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND
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 Maryland
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
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Peace Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND: 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 PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND?
- PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,433 to it, the largest being TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION TO EMPOWER THE POOR AND END WAR ($360,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,033,433 in grants to PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND?
- TELEMACHUS FOUNDATION TO EMPOWER THE POOR AND END WAR is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 23 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