GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Institute for Educational

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1198450. Reported 78 grants totalling $5,674,836 to 25 organizations across tax years 2019-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

25organizations funded
$49,475median reported grant
$5,674,836granted, 2019-2023
79%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Institute for Educational, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B00F) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $49,475. Half of what it reported fell between $29,624 and $75,631; the smallest was $6,211 and the largest $454,470. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
28 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
24 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Peckham Vocational Industries IncLansing, MI$843,705852023
Oasis Center IncNashville, TN$645,963332021
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$563,580222020
Playa Vista Job Opportunities and Business ServicesLos Angeles, CA$560,916552023
Goodwill Industries of HoustonHouston, TX$413,827332021
Greater Miami Service CorpsMiami, FL$364,713552023
Easter Seals of Greater Houston IncHouston, TX$338,561552023
Opportunity Development IncJacksonville, FL$233,125552023
Ability Connection Colorado IncDenver, CO$231,727552023
The Community GroupRandallstown, MD$231,092442023
Progressive Center for Independent Living IncTrenton, NJ$224,660442022
Georgia Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities IncAthens, GA$198,278552023
Youth Development IncAlbuquerque, NM$185,751332021
Trustees of Boston UniversityBoston, MA$129,265332021
Lawrence HallChicago, IL$123,557552023
Commission on Adult Basic Education IncBradenton, FL$69,750222020
IntocareersEugene, OR$65,000112019
Interaction IncBrattleboro, VT$56,641112019
Arizona Center for Youth ResourcesPhoenix, AZ$47,374112019
Business Innovation FactoryProvidence, RI$40,000112019
Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation IncorporatedMilwaukee, WI$35,000222023
Tides CenterSan Francisco, CA$35,000222023
Clarkston Community Center Foundation IncClarkston, GA$21,498112023
Applied Engineering Management CorpCamarillo, CA$9,642112019
Humanim IncColumbia, MD$6,211112019

18 of 25 (72%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
5 orgs
Employment
4 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
201922$2,207,746$65,927
202017$1,667,548$53,870
202115$965,389$50,971
202212$457,842$30,127
202312$376,311$27,308

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

15% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Michigan
$844K
Texas
$752K
Florida
$668K
Tennessee
$646K
California
$606K
New York
$564K
Maryland
$237K
Colorado
$232K

Down to the city

Lansing, MI
$844K
Houston, TX
$752K
Nashville, TN
$646K
Ithaca, NY
$564K
Los Angeles, CA
$561K
Miami, FL
$365K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America5 shared recipientsThe National Restaurant Association4 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $49,475 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Institute for Educational's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2019-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 4301 Connecticut Avenue Nw Ste 100, Washington, DC, 20008.

EIN 52-1198450 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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