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Foundational Education Expansion

01 Foundational Education Expansion · 21 edit slice
3
orgs
15
activities
1
strategies
CA
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 15 activities — NEW SCHOOLS FUND, ROOM TO READ, KIPP FOUNDATION and others. Activity concentrates in California (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Networked School Autonomy", run by 1 orgs.
NEW SCHOOLS FUND and ROOM TO READ hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
California 100% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

Burger King McLamore Foundation 1
Corporate
Comic Relief U.S. / Red Nose Day 1
Foundation
Deloitte 1
Corporate
Doris and Donald Fisher 1
Foundation
Doris and Donald Fisher Foundation 1
Foundation
Dutch Postcode Lottery 1
Foundation
IMC 1
Corporate
LSEG Foundation 1
Corporate
MetLife Foundation 1
Corporate
Salesforce 1
Corporate
Tatcha 1
Corporate
Warburg Pincus 1
Corporate
Warburg Pincus 1
Foundation
Warner Bros. Discovery 1
Corporate
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Networked School Autonomy
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

10story Partner
shared by 1 org
4th-Dimension Leaders Partner
shared by 1 org
7 Generation Games Partner
shared by 1 org
A School Without Walls Partner
shared by 1 org
A+ Unlimited Potential (A+UP) Partner
shared by 1 org
AI for Equity Partner
shared by 1 org
AI-Learners Partner
shared by 1 org
AIM – Academy for Innovation in Medicine Partner
shared by 1 org
ALL in Education Partner
shared by 1 org
ARCADIA SCHOOLS Partner
shared by 1 org
Abigail and Leslie Wexner Funder
shared by 1 org
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Partner
shared by 1 org
Accenture Funder
shared by 1 org
Acuarela Curriculum Cooperative Partner
shared by 1 org
Admissions Gambit Partner
shared by 1 org
Advance Rural Education Foundation Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 NEW SCHOOLS FUND CA · 7 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 ROOM TO READ CA · 6 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 KIPP FOUNDATION CA · 2 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

10K
Staff
from 2 orgs
95
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs
50
Countries served
from 2 orgs