Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Education Trust Inc
The Education Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,799,308 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($53,426,444). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Education Trust Inc is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Freedom Together Foundationshared funders
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio match
- Koshland Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
91% of The Education Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $12M → $28M.
33 of 174 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 The Education Trust Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 174 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 Education Trust Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 Education Trust Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 33% · 2021 47% · 2022 25% · 2023 19% — 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
48% of The Education Trust Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 Education Trust Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 174 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 142 organizations that share your funders
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Koshland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Overdeck Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cambiar Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Accelerate Great Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Growth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Democracy Fund Incshared fundersDC · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 82 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding The Education Trust Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13k on record.
- FEDERAL$11k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$2k
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 The Education Trust Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- EdInnovations of DC Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Education Trust Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc?
- The Education Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,799,308 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($53,426,444). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Education Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 174 organizations giving $194,799,308 in grants to The Education Trust Inc, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Education Trust Inc?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,426,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Education Trust Inc 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 174funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing