Alabama · Nonprofit
THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (Alabama) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,639,214 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC ($1,333,276). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The a Education Partnership does
Mission
The a + education partnership works for great schools for every child - and a bright future for alabama.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To engage in research regarding public education, educate the state's citizens about public education and promote support for the improvement of public education
$1,153,829 spent$647,930 earned by the program9% of program spendingImprove student achievement in math, science, english, social studies, certain foreign languages and 2-d art through rigorous coursework and training including advanced placement and incentive programs.
$11,379,056 spent$14,090,085 earned by the program91% of program spendingSupport the alabama school readiness alliance dedicated to making high quality pre-k a priority to help children to enter school ready to succeed.
$4,092 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,536,977.
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 $9.1M to $12M (+36%).
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 5% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $520k → $777k.
4 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $479k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham). These are real filings, and they are not money THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
40% 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 THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 59% · 2019 69% · 2020 34% · 2021 33% · 2022 40% · 2023 39% — 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
42% of THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alabama Best Practices Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: 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 THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (Alabama) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,639,214 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC ($1,333,276). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,639,214 in grants to THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- NATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,333,276 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing