Maryland · Nonprofit
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,187,602 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($650,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $766k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $488k
What Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness does
Mission
The organization works to advance and disseminate research on causal effects of education practices, interventions, programs, and policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conferences - Develops the supply of high quality research and disseminates findings to practitioners through the annual conference. Research highlighted by the Organization includes rigorously designed predictive studies of educational interventions and descriptive studies that model the distribution of educational outcomes.
$562,007 spent$334,560 earned by the program64% of program spendingMembership - Provides a forum to engage with a community of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students united in a desire to advance education research.
$201,964 spent$138,975 earned by the program23% of program spendingSummer Fellows - Provides members with the opportunity to have a research question answered by an educational researcher.
$76,240 spent$9,500 earned by the program9% of program spendingPublications - Aims to provide the research community, policy makers, and educational professionals with a reliable source of information on advances in research on cause-and-effect relations important for educational practice. The Organization sponsors the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
$22,847 spent$1,290 earned by the program3% of program spendingProfessional Development - Provides courses, workshops and videos, software and other tools to aid in the professional development of practitioners.
$12,662 spent$5,925 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $875,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $920k to $1.7M (+81%).
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: 2018 31% · 2019 17% · 2020 2% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness’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. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $109k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness’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
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 38% · 2021 65% · 2022 59% · 2023 58% — 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
29% of Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $769k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness: 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 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness?
- Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,187,602 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($650,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,187,602 in grants to Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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