Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,538,617 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($925,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute does
Mission
The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. We work to increase equity, improve student learning, and give teachers and students greater agency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scaling students' success with stari: expanding eligibility, support, and spread serp was awarded a five-year, 15-million education innovation and research (eir) expansion-phase grant starting in january 2023 to build the capacity to scale the strategic adolescent reading intervention (stari). This grant will support the program's adoption in four states in different regions of the country, and to study its effectiveness with these different populations. The goals for the project are: 1. To improve the reading skills of middle school students, demonstrating effects of stari as compared to business-as-usual on reading behaviors, proximal reading skills (readbasix), progress toward meeting grade-level standards (state tests), and leading indicators of distal outcomes (course pass rates). 2. To build teacher capacity for effective literacy instruction and to measure the impact of stari professional learning on teachers' knowledge and instructional practice. 3. To determine for whom and under what conditions stari is most effective by examining outcomes for subgroups (students reading far below grade level, students with ieps, english learners). 4. To create an affordable, sustainable…
$2,460,491 spentof which $813,543 as grants65% of program spendingSustaining literacy practices over time: codifying knowledge through micro-credentialing serp received a four-year, two-million-dollar grant from ies to partner with the district of columbia public schools (dcps), and a research team from harvard and the university of maryland to develop and test an intervention consisting of two micro-credential courses. The first course will target effective use of student time in literacy centers, a structure for instruction used in the large majority of k-2 classrooms. The second course will target the use of academically productive talk (apt), an instructional practice that supports deep reading comprehension and student engagement but is not widely used. Both courses are being developed in collaboration with dcps literacy leaders. Dcps k-2 classrooms footage is being collected and will be incorporated into instructional videos featuring researchers and dcps literacy leaders. Course content will be revised in response to feedback from teachers in usability studies conducted through an iterative development process. Schools will be randomly assigned to participate in each of the courses in year 3 of the study. Eligible teachers in the…
$380,456 spentof which $125,414 as grants10% of program spendingAdapting stari to accelerate student reading achievement in middle grades serp was awarded a two-year, 1-million grant as part of ies' leveraging evidence to accelerate recovery nationwide (learn) network, which focuses on adapting and preparing to scale existing, evidence-based products that have the potential to accelerate students' learning relative to pre- pandemic rates of growth. The purpose of this project is to further adapt and assess the impact of the strategic adolescent reading intervention (stari) to respond to the urgent need to accelerate learning among middle grades students reading two or more years below grade level. The goals of this project are to identify barriers to uptake and implementation of the program, to develop the highest priority adaptations that address students' needs, and to test the effects of stari on students' academic outcomes. Adaptations will be prioritized according to a roughly estimated rate of return, and the highest priority adaptations will be undertaken within the grant period to the extent possible. The research team will assess the effectiveness of stari for accelerating student reading growth using a regression discontinuity design…
$184,302 spent5% of program spending1. Center for success for english learners 2. Math by example 3. Learning progressions in science 4. Internal coherence 5. Wordgen weekly 6. Nycps ais pd 7. Development and innovations of the translate
$750,417 spent$688,596 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,775,666.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.3M to $4.0M (+207%).
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 36% · 2018 54% · 2019 57% · 2020 86% · 2021 79% · 2022 86% · 2023 82% · 2024 87% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Catherine Snow
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $110k → $291k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE’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
STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
50% 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 STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 80% · 2019 56% · 2020 39% · 2021 88% · 2022 62% · 2023 45% — 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
13% of STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE'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
STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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
STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 210 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.1M on record.
- Department of Education$26.8M
- National Science Foundation$1.3M
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 STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE: 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 STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,538,617 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($925,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,538,617 in grants to STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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