New York · Nonprofit
THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC
THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,077,894 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Climateworks Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Marisla Foundationshared funders
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC’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
THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC.
“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 THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Climateworks Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Climate Imperative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sunrise Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advocates for Climate Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rf Catalytic Capital Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The a William and Eileen Pratt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Third Act Initiative Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND 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 THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC?
- THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,077,894 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,077,894 in grants to THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC?
- SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 15funders 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