Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Story of Our Schools
Story of Our Schools (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,291 to it, the largest being The Policy Academies Inc ($46,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $161k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Story of Our Schools does
Mission
The Story of Our Schools empowers students to research the history of their school and create a museum-quality exhibit that shares their school story with the broader community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program execution at Garrison Elementary-project management classroom support research and exhibit development.
$67,461 spent41% of program spendingProgram execution at HD Woodson High School- project management classroom support research and exhibit development.
$50,542 spent30% of program spendingProgram execution at Bruce-Monroe at Park View-project management classroom support research and exhibit development.
$44,110 spent27% of program spendingMiscellaneous program costs like John Burroughs removal classroom supplies printing fees etc..
$3,622 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,735.
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
Jennifer Harris
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $53k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Story of Our Schools’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
Story of Our Schools leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Story of Our Schools.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 57% · 2023 47% — 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
0% of Story of Our Schools's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
98% of Story of Our Schools's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Story of Our Schools's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Story of Our Schools
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 Story of Our Schools: 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 Story of Our Schools?
- Story of Our Schools (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,291 to it, the largest being The Policy Academies Inc ($46,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Story of Our Schools have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $161,291 in grants to Story of Our Schools, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Story of Our Schools?
- The Policy Academies Inc is the largest funder on record, with $46,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Story of Our Schools 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.
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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 2025–2025), and the filings of 10 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