Grantmakers › District of Columbia

Institute for Educational

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1198450. Reported 92 grants totalling $6,496,987 to 29 organizations across tax years 2019-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$49,353median reported grant
$6,496,987granted, 2019-2024
75%of grantees funded again the next year
13%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. 29 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $49,353. Half of what it reported fell between $27,630 and $79,446; 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
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
31 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
27 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
15 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$853,000962024
Playa Vista Job Opportunities and Business ServicesLos Angeles, CA$765,369662024
Oasis Center IncNashville, TN$645,963332021
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$563,580222020
Goodwill Industries of HoustonHouston, TX$527,631442024
Greater Miami Service CorpsMiami, FL$508,829662024
Easter Seals of Greater Houston IncHouston, TX$363,621662024
The Community GroupRandallstown, MD$290,889552024
Ability Connection Colorado IncDenver, CO$289,347662024
Opportunity Development IncJacksonville, FL$270,481662024
Progressive Center for Independent Living IncHamilton, NJ$224,660442022
Lawrence HallChicago, IL$209,400662024
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
Commission on Adult Basic Education IncBradenton, FL$69,750222020
IntocareersEugene, OR$65,000112019
Interaction IncBrattleboro, VT$56,641112019
Clarkston Community Center Foundation IncClarkston, GA$51,226222024
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
Richmond District Neighborhood Center IncSan Francisco, CA$20,000112024
Clark County Latino Youth ConferenceVancouver, WA$17,892112024
Martha Obryan Center IncNashville, TN$10,187112024
Applied Engineering Management CorpCamarillo, CA$9,642112019
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers IncColumbus, GA$7,000112024
Humanim IncColumbia, MD$6,211112019

19 of 29 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Employment
5 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
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
202414$822,151$33,542

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

14% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. 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.

Texas
$891K
Michigan
$853K
Florida
$849K
California
$830K
Tennessee
$656K
New York
$564K
Maryland
$297K
Colorado
$289K

Down to the city

Houston, TX
$891K
Lansing, MI
$853K
Los Angeles, CA
$765K
Nashville, TN
$656K
Ithaca, NY
$564K
Miami, FL
$509K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America5 shared recipientsThe National Restaurant Association4 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 $49,353 -- 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 Texas.
  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 6 returns (tax years 2019-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 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: 1001 Connecticut Avenue Ste 1235, Washington, DC, 20036.

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

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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