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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.
In Q3 2024, our foundation awarded 69 grants totaling over $16.5 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, one out of every four students—or even more—have been considered chronically absent in U.S. school systems. To combat the growing absenteeism crisis, a new study from the Ad Council Research Institute, funded by Overdeck Family Foundation, provides guidance for how school leaders, educators, community partners, and others can more effectively encourage families to send their children to school on a consistent basis.
Each day, our grantee partners impact the lives of countless educators, students, and families across the country. Here, we highlight stories from Parent Teacher Home Visits, PBS SoCal, and MIND Education, which provide a glimpse into how our grantees create meaningful change in the communities they serve.
In Q2 2024, our foundation awarded 34 grants totaling over $14 million. Here, we highlight just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter.