News about our grantees, the Foundation, and the field.
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.
As an impact-focused education funder, we’re committed to studying programs, interventions, and approaches that show promise in supporting students and educators. In 2025, we’re continuing to make targeted investments in rigorous evaluations, field-building research, and large-scale data projects that can help guide the field.
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.
Here, we highlight stories of how our funding helped unlock innovation in 2024—from enhancing professional learning through AI to helping Quill.org and TalkingPoints develop and launch new approaches, interventions, and models that address unmet needs.
Here, we highlight stories of how our funding helped unlock evidence in 2024 to advance field knowledge or validate program models in the areas of high-impact tutoring and curriculum-based professional learning.
Here, we highlight how our funding helped CommonLit, Museum of Science, Learn Fresh, National Inventors Hall of Fame, and New Jersey Tutoring Corps unlock growth in 2024, measured by increased earned revenue and reach, improved capacities, and follow-on funding.
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.
In this “Spotlight On Growth,” Emma Banay sits down with Hannah Paulin, Chief Strategic Officer at the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Together, they discuss the organization’s long history of nurturing students' skills and interest in STEM and innovation, the scale trajectory of its educational programming since the pandemic, and more.
Overdeck Family Foundation and the Ad Council Research Institute surveyed 5,000+ K-12 parents to identify messaging that would help them commit to sending their children to school on a consistent basis. Informed by this research, Lina Eroh and Derrick Feldmann list three key recommendations for educators to consider as we head into 2025.