Overdeck Family Foundation’s funding helped Quill.org foster new partnerships with curriculum providers and develop new products to meet diverse student needs. In 2024, Quill, which aims to help all students become critical thinkers through the practice of reading and writing, launched content for social studies educators, “Building AI Knowledge” activities, and enhanced Spanish language functionality. Since its founding in 2014, approximately 10 million students have written two billion sentences on the platform.

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Since Overdeck Family Foundation began funding TalkingPoints in 2020, the organization has continued to innovate on its product while growing its reach tenfold. The nonprofit, which serves as a tech-enabled family engagement solution that empowers educators to build effective family-school partnerships through two-way communication in 150+ languages, also provides coaching for schools and families and actionable data on student progress. With the addition of genAI, TalkingPoints is experimenting with in-the-moment suggestions and guidance for both teachers and families that can help improve family engagement and student learning.

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Utilizing funding from Overdeck Family Foundation, OnYourMark, a nonprofit that provides high-impact virtual tutoring to students in kindergarten through second grade, gained insight into the potential impact of virtual tutoring on student learning. The organization worked with Stanford University to conduct a randomized controlled trial of OnYourMark, which examined over 2,000 students across 12 schools. Researchers found that OnYourMark tutoring had a positive impact on students’ early literacy skills, as measured with an assessment called the DIBELS, with the largest effects on kindergarteners’ knowledge of letter sounds and first graders’ decoding skills.

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In 2021, Overdeck Family Foundation worked with the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund to launch the New Jersey Tutoring Corps, a high-dosage, small-group, tutoring program designed to accelerate learning recovery for students impacted by pandemic-related learning losses. In 2024, the Tutoring Corps prioritized fostering close district partnerships through its in-school tutoring program, increasing the nonprofit’s year-over-year reach by 64 percent, serving almost 4,000 total kindergarten through eighth grade students in 80 school sites across 25 districts. During this time, the organization also saw significant earned revenue growth, demonstrating strong demand for high-impact tutoring across New Jersey.

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The Museum of Science in Boston, MA used funding from Overdeck Family Foundation to scale its Engineering is Elementary^® (EiE) and Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) curricula while providing families with resources to lead engineering and computer science activities at home. In SY 2023-24, over one million students accessed YES and EiE’s engineering and computer science units, a 115 percent year-over-year increase primarily fueled by educator demand for high-quality and engaging engineering curricular materials for in-school and out-of-school time programs.

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Since 2020, Overdeck Family Foundation’s funding has helped the National Inventors Hall of Fame expand access to STEM enrichment programs including Camp Invention^®, Club Invention^®, and Invention Project^®. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the team capitalized on federal stimulus dollars by spearheading new partnerships with school districts that led to growth of 22 percent year over year. At the same time, the organization saw notable growth in its out-of-school time programs, with Camp Invention averaging approximately 83 campers per camp, the largest in the organization’s history. In 2023, the National Inventors Hall of Fame grew total students served by 37 percent.

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