Organization
Defending Education
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
27 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 11 are locally focused, 15 have national reach, and 1 is no longer active.
- Bradley Impact Fund Inc3 years$1,505,500
- Bader Family Foundation4 years$787,000
- Searle Freedom Trust4 years$750,000
- Marcus Foundation Inc2 years$450,000
- Thomas W Smith Foundation3 years$150,000
Showing 5 of 27. See all 38 funders
11 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.
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Your funding peers
Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 2,308 funding connections →
8 Civil Rights funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Southeastern Legal Foundation IncGA7 shared funders
- Center for Individual RightsDC5 shared funders
- Independent Womens ForumVA5 shared funders
- Speech First IncDC5 shared funders
- Government Accountability InstituteFL4 shared funders
- Hamilton Lincoln Law InstituteDC3 shared funders
- National Center for Justice and Liberty IncIL3 shared funders
- Students for Fair Admissions IncVA3 shared funders
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Potential new funders
Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.
In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.