About Education Development Center
We work with partners worldwide to advance every person’s journey to learn, work, and be well.
Focus Areas
Early Childhood Development & LearningElementary & Secondary EducationHigher EducationSTEM Education & Workforce DevelopmentYouth & Workforce DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceChildren & TechnologyChild Health & SafetyAgingCrisis-Affected ContextsEducation Workforce & Systems
Who They Fund
young children (early childhood)K-12 students
About Education Development Center
Education Development Center Inc’s recent grantmaking is anchored by multi-year research-and-development awards, led by Georgetown University in Washington, DC, which received grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to a funder that supports sustained work rather than isolated awards. Across its recent grants, the foundation backs education research, literacy, science learning, workforce-related projects, and child and family-serving organizations. Several recipients appear repeatedly, including LA Promise Fund in Los Angeles and Bank Street College of Education in New York, suggesting longer-running partnerships around implementation and learning. Other awards reach universities, intermediaries, media organizations, and community-based groups, showing a mix of academic, field-based, and public-facing grantees. The organization describes its work as advancing every person’s journey to learn, work, and be well, and the grants align with that scope through education development, youth and workforce initiatives, early learning, and child health and safety. The foundation also funds both national and place-based efforts, with recipients ranging from major research universities to local nonprofits and education institutions.
What Education Development Center Funds
In education research and development, the foundation gave $839,737 to James Bell Associates in Arlington, VA in 2025 and $1,441,476 to Training Resources Group in Arlington, VA in 2024, indicating substantial support for technical and program-design work. In literacy and early learning, Literacy Partners Inc in New York received $416,035 in 2025, while Bank Street College of Education in New York received $423,271 in 2024. STEM and science learning also appear in the grant list: New York Hall of Science in Corona, NY received $327,119 in 2024. The portfolio also includes media and communications-oriented education work, with Wgbh in Brighton, MA receiving $289,474 in 2023 and $266,356 in 2024.
How Education Development Center Gives
Typical grants cluster around a median of $83,424, with the middle half spanning from $29,732 at the 25th percentile to $154,127 at the 75th percentile. The recent record also shows repeated support to the same organizations across multiple years, including Georgetown University, LA Promise Fund, Bank Street College of Education, University of California San Francisco, New York Hall of Science, Bay State Community Serv, and Wgbh. That points to an operating grantmaker that sustains ongoing projects. It is classified as a Regular Funder and does not fund individuals or make program-related investments.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$16.9M
Total Assets
$124.5M
Total Revenue
$159.2M
Total Expenses
$156.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $30K and $154K, with a median of $83K.
25th Percentile
$30K
Median
$83K
75th Percentile
$154K
Geographic Reach
National33 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Siobhan Murphy
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