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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.
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.
Over the last two years, we’ve made over $13 million in commitments to organizations building, scaling, or learning about AI-powered interventions in Pre-K-12 education. To inform how we pursue genAI investments in 2025 and beyond, we analyzed our grantmaking efforts and trends we’re seeing in the broader landscape. Jon Sotsky shares five reflections from this exercise focused on the progress, challenges, and dynamics we’re observing through the efforts of our grantees and others in the field.
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.
Overdeck Family Foundation has granted the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) $900,000 to manage three studies focused on identifying the features and traits of genAI tools that show potential to improve teacher quality and student learning, and disseminate those results to the education community at large.
High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) matter for student learning, but these materials alone are not enough—how they are implemented matters. Jessica Fredston-Hermann and Meghan McCormick dive into the evidence on the importance of pairing HQIM with curriculum-based professional learning to ensure educators have the support they need for impactful instruction.
In 2023, Overdeck Family Foundation disbursed $53.5 million to almost 100 grantee organizations, collectively reaching over 66 million children, 3.9 million families, and 500,000 educators nationwide. Our 2023 Grantmaking & Impact Report highlights what our grantmaking accomplished and uplifts the successes of the organizations we fund.
Here we highlight how our funding helped DiscoverE, EdReports, FluentSeeds, and Teaching Lab unlock growth in 2023, measured by increased earned revenue and reach, improved capacities, and follow-on funding.
Join us on Wednesday, January 31 from 1-2:30 p.m. ET for a special panel conversation to celebrate the launch of Overdeck Family Foundation’s 2023 Grantmaking & Impact Report. Leaders from 12 nonprofits across our portfolios will share how their organizations unlocked innovation, evidence-building, and growth this past year.