Michigan · Nonprofit
The Institute for Excellence in Education
The Institute for Excellence in Education (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,330 to it, the largest being KINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS ($254,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $620k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What The Institute for Excellence in Education does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, equip and support the people and organizations who elevate and educate students. We offer professional development and coaching for teachers, along with a range of professional consulting services and software solutions for schools, governing boards, and authorizing agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional Services for School Boards: The Institute provides services to school boards such as board training, board consulting and board policies and procedures. Our board policy service equips boards with the development and upkeep of their policies and ensures they comply with state and federal statutes and regulations.
$622,981 spent$589,232 earned by the program8% of program spendingProfessional Services for Schools, Educators, and Authorizers: The Institute provides an array of coaching and consulting services to inspire, equip and support schools, educators and authorizers to embrace their responsibilities, strengthen their capacity, and improve their impact. The Institute provides customized coaching and professional development for teachers and school administrators aligned with the principles and practices associated with Cognitive Coaching and the Adaptive Schools model.
$2,790,732 spent$1,517,367 earned by the program35% of program spendingEpicenter: The Institute provides a web-based SaaS platform called Epicenter. It equips clients to grow and expand their organizational capacity via a common calendaring system and workflow engine that ensures people and organizations know what is expected of them and can fulfill their responsibilities in an efficient and effective manner.
$4,607,504 spent$4,560,278 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,021,217.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.4M to $5.2M (+18%).
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 14% · 2024 15% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of The Institute for Excellence in Education’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
James Goenner
President/CEO
Board chair
James Barrett
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $36k → $116k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Institute for Excellence in Education’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
The Institute for Excellence in Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 Institute for Excellence in Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
59% of The Institute for Excellence in Education's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k 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
The Institute for Excellence in Education's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding The Institute for Excellence in Education receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.
- Department of Education$7.3M
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 The Institute for Excellence in Education
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 The Institute for Excellence in Education: 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 Institute for Excellence in Education?
- The Institute for Excellence in Education (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $620,330 to it, the largest being KINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS ($254,290). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Institute for Excellence in Education have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $620,330 in grants to The Institute for Excellence in Education, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Institute for Excellence in Education?
- KINEXUS YOUTH SOLUTIONS is the largest funder on record, with $254,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Institute for Excellence in Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 5 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