
Overdeck Family Foundation Awards $32.7 Million in Grants in Q2 2025
In Q2 2025, our foundation awarded 52 grants totaling over $32 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support.
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In Q2 2025, our foundation awarded 52 grants totaling over $32 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support.
A new whitepaper from EdWeek Market Brief examines how for-profits and nonprofits are navigating decision-making in today’s K-12 market—and where they diverge. Anthony Lucchino highlights key findings and their implications for education leaders and the philanthropic sector.
In Q1 2025, our foundation awarded 56 grants totaling over $14.5 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter as we kick off our 2025 grantmaking.
Join us for a panel conversation on the research behind what works in professional development, as well as innovation on the horizon to make PD more relevant, timely, and beneficial for educators and students. Hear from researchers and nonprofit leaders from Teaching Lab, Leading Educators, Modern Classrooms Project, and the Research Partnership for Professional Learning.
We believe AI has the potential to serve as a powerful tool in the classroom—not as a replacement for teachers, but as an assistant to help educators make learning more engaging, personalized, and effective. Here, we outline what we’ve learned from our AI investments and how we’ll refine our approach in 2025.
Each year, we assess our funding strategies both at the foundation and portfolio levels, ensuring our grantmaking and strategic support remain responsive to the needs of our grantees and their beneficiaries. Here, we detail our strategies across our four main investment areas in 2025.
In 2024, Overdeck Family Foundation disbursed $63.5 million to 106 grantee partners, collectively reaching approximately 75 million children, 6 million families, and 500,000 educators nationwide. In our latest Grantmaking & Impact Report, we highlight how our grantmaking and strategic support helped our nonprofit partners develop exciting prototypes and innovative practices, engage in field-building research, and achieve growth in 2024.
Join us on Thursday, January 30th from 3-4:15 p.m. ET for a virtual event to mark the launch of Overdeck Family Foundation’s 2024 Grantmaking & Impact Report. Leaders from seven nonprofits will share how their organizations unlocked innovation and growth in the past year.
We’re continuing a tradition—sharing our predictions to kick off the new year. Our leadership team reflected on what we’ve seen across the education and philanthropic landscape and what we’ve learned from our peer funders and grantee partners to assess the accuracy of our predictions for 2024 and list 10 predictions for 2025.
In Q4 2024, our foundation awarded 28 grants totaling over $18.4 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter as we conclude our 2024 grantmaking.