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Results for America
Washington, DC · EIN 81-2709681. Reported 57 grants totalling $18.0M to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Results for America, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 22% 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.
- How much its list changes. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $21,000 and $250,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $1,553,462. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $4,057,060 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $3,754,831 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Code for America Labs | San Francisco, CA | $3,651,522 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| W Haywood Burns Institute | Beaverton, OR | $3,049,008 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $459,262 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Accelertor for America | Los Angeles, CA | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lena Foundation | Louisville, CO | $339,997 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| US Digital Response | Oakland, CA | $192,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brilliant Detroit | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Hartford | Hartford, CT | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Virginia Beach | Virginia Beach, VA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Center for Families Learning Inc | Louisville, KY | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Small Magic | Birmingham, AL | $104,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy Inc | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education | Nashville, TN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Empire Justice Center | Rochester, NY | $73,728 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Government Finance Officers Assn of the United States & Canada | Chicago, IL | $54,532 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc | Montgomery, AL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Decarcerate Miami Inc | Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Deep Center Incorporated | Savannah, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Network Delaware Inc | Wilmington, DE | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unified Government of Wyandotte County | Kansas City, KS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Strategies Council | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Racine | Racine, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation of New Jersey | Morristown, NJ | $39,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Network for the Development of Children of African Descent | Minneapolis, MN | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beyond Educating Foundation | Memphis, TN | $34,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Brighter Way | Ypsilanti, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hill District Consensus Group | Pittsburgh, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washtenaw County | Ann Arbor, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reinvent Stockton Foundation | Stockton, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resource Exploration LLC | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Behavioral Insights (us) Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Preschool Promise Inc | Dayton, OH | $17,991 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber | Cincinnati, OH | $15,120 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Workforce Directions Inc | Tulsa, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Lansing | Lansing, MI | $12,943 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ryan Sides LLC (paid Via Upwork) | Zachary, LA | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Falls School District | Central Falls, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Springfield | Springfield, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia City Fund Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tiverton Public Schools | Tiverton, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woonsocket Education Department | Woonsocket, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cumberland School District | Cumberland, RI | $9,997 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Learn to Earn Dayton | Dayton, OH | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
7 of 46 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- W Haywood Burns Institute
TO ADVANCE THE STRUCTURAL WELLBEING OF INDIVIDUALS BY IMPROVING ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND PROMOTING RACIAL EQUITY - President and Fellows of Harvard College
TO SUPPORT AND INCREASE ECONOMIC MOBILITY. - Code for America
TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC ACCELERATOR INITIATIVE TO INCREASE ECONOMIC MOBILITY. - Brown University
TO SUPPORT EDRESEARCH FOR RECOVERY PROJECT. - Lena Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE EARLY CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. - Cornell University
DESIGN AND DELIVER WEBINARS FOCUSED ON HOW CITIES CAN LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING PROPOSALS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 46 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $4,993,238 | $39,950 |
| 2022 | 12 | $6,127,811 | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $6,607,392 | $152,266 |
| 2024 | 5 | $320,500 | $42,500 |
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
24% of its giving went to organizations in California. 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- 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 Results for America's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 5 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: 1701 Rhode Island Avenue Nw, Washington, DC, 20036.
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