Massachusetts · Nonprofit
RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC
RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,528,042 to it, the largest being REDSTONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,025,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy Inc does
Mission
To develop a public agenda that promotes significant improvement of public education in massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Practice: with a mission to improve education for all students, the rennie center's work does not end with research. We put what we learn into action by teaming up with schools and districts to support innovative reforms. Through a series of projects, we are helping districts build their capacity to design, implement, and evaluate the use of evidence-based reforms.
$1,757,238 spent$533,091 earned by the program63% of program spendingResearch: the rennie center produces original research to promote public discourse on educational improvement and to inform policy discussions of key decision makers and opinion leaders. Our research reports and policy briefs focus on issues of critical importance to the improvement of public education.
$608,400 spent$75,916 earned by the program22% of program spendingDiscourse: the rennie center is committed to engaging diverse perspectives and voices in a constructive policy discussion. By convening conferences, forums, meetings, policy briefings, panel discussions, town meetings and other events, the rennie center promotes constructive dialogue on school improvement and student achievement and seeks to minimize polarized, partisan communication and to promote an invigorated, inclusive policy debate with diverse stakeholder participation.
$420,309 spent$83,875 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,785,947.
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.
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 $1.5M to $2.5M (+71%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 6% · 2019 22% · 2020 33% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% · 2024 39% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Chad D'Entremont
Executive director
Board chair
Antoniya Marinova
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $177k → $1.1M.
1 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY 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
RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 77% · 2019 48% · 2020 56% · 2021 20% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — 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 RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640k 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.
Organizations like RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC?
- RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,528,042 to it, the largest being REDSTONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,025,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,528,042 in grants to RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC?
- REDSTONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,025,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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