Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,706,068 to it, the largest being RAIKES FOUNDATION ($1,445,350). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Schoolhouse Connection does
Mission
Schoolhouse Connection is a national non-profit organization working to overcome homelessness through early care and education. We provide strategic advocacy and practical assistance in partnership with early childhood programs, schools, institutions of higher education, service providers, families, and youth. We believe education is the only permanent solution to homelessness. Our vision is that children and youth experiencing homelessness have full access to quality learning, birth through higher education, so they will never be homeless as adults, and the next generation will never be homeless.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Prek-12program goal: all children and youth experiencing homelessness are identified and enrolled in school (and in preschool where available), attend regularly, are proficient or above in 3rd grade reading, graduate from high school on par with non-homeless students, and are informed about and prepared to pursue postsecondary education.program activities: in 2024, shc helped state and local educational agencies effectively use nearly $325 million in pandemic recovery funds in new ways to increase attendance and success for over one million students experiencing homelessness. Shc also released "overlooked and almost out of time," a report showing the impact and reach of pandemic-era relief funds for students experiencing homelessness, as well as the challenges that prevented schools from using these funds at a time of heightened need. Shc launched a new project in collaboration with attendance works to reduce chronic absenteeism among students experiencing homelessness. Shc created many new practical tools to help educators identify and support students experiencing homelessness, including a new resource hub for new and seasoned mckinney-vento homeless liaisons.
$1,558,939 spent$1,942,886 earned by the program52% of program spendingEarly childhoodprogram goal: all young children and expectant parents experiencing homelessness (prenatal to age six) are identified, enrolled, and participate in high quality early childhood programs. Young children meet developmental milestones and enter kindergarten ready to learn.program activities: in 2024, shc published the first-ever 50-state report on infant and toddler homelessness, documenting that of the 364,000 infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness only 11% are enrolled in a high quality early childhood development program. Shc also published three case studies of organizations in illinois, texas, and massachusetts, and presented a national webinar to highlight their strategies for serving infants and toddlers experiencing homelessness. Shc continued refining a referral app that bridges k-12 and early childhood systems to ensure young children experiencing homelessness are referred to head start and other early childhood development programs. Shc partnered with 13 states to increase the identification and enrollment of young children experiencing homelessness in high quality early childhood programs.
$491,368 spent$8,300 earned by the program16% of program spendingAdvocacy and public policyprogram goal: to overcome homelessness through education, we must reform the systems that impact the lives of children, youth, and families experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.program activities: in 2024, shc helped local and state educational agencies make the most of pandemic-era funding to identify and support students experiencing homelessness, leading to reductions in chronic absence and improved academic outcomes. As a result of a recent clarification from the u.s. Department of education (ed) for which we advocated, all of the allowable uses of arp-hcy (pandemic-education funds) funds also will be allowable with annual education for homeless children and youth (ehcy) funds. Shc successfully advocated for a correction to a screen on the 2025-2026 fafsa that had been a barrier to financial aid for unaccompanied homeless youth and for updated federal guidance on homeless youth and the fafsa. Shc assisted educators and service providers to help homeless and foster youth complete the 2024-2025 fafsa. Shc helped to inform a new job corps policy that removes barriers to the participation of youth experiencing homelessness, and galvanized support for…
$266,889 spent9% of program spendingState policyprogram goal: to reform state laws and policies to improve the lives of youth experiencing homelessness, driven by young people and local communities.updated program activities: in 2024, shc advanced policy reforms in multiple legislatures across the u.s. To increase access to education, vital documents, housing, employment, health care and related supports for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness. The most impactful accomplishments during this reporting period were: a) five state policy reforms to substantially improve access to education, vital documents and housing for at least 39,340 homeless youth and adults in three states; b) partnership in advocacy with community organizations and legislators in three states (pa, in, ca) to advance reforms addressing youth homelessness, and d) expansion of shc's advocacy network to more than 310 members in 43 states and the district of columbia. Higher educationprogram goal: youth experiencing homelessness who wish to pursue postsecondary education enroll in postsecondary, and obtain a postsecondary credential. Program activities: in 2024, shc assisted youth, educators, and service providers to navigate the…
$703,642 spentof which $34,380 as grants$54,907 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,020,838.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $5.8M (+68%).
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.
63% of SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Barbara Duffield
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $250k → $1.9M.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION’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
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 30% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 35% — 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
70% of SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $638k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $622k on record — $508k federal, $114k state.
- Department of the Interior$508k
- OR$110k
- DE$4k
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 SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION: 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 SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION?
- SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,706,068 to it, the largest being RAIKES FOUNDATION ($1,445,350). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,706,068 in grants to SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION?
- RAIKES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,445,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION 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 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