THOMAS B FORDHAM INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B05

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 110

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Commentary: framed the debate for other ed reformers; weighed in on urgent topics of the day; and promoted policies that increase access to high quality choices and that maintain rigorous standards, especially through our blogs and the education gadfly.

  Expenses $1,134,406

• Researching and Evaluating Ohio Education Policy: produced and disseminated studies, analyses, and other information aimed at strengthening and improving education policy in Ohio, including the publication a of bi-weekly electronic news-brief titled the Ohio education gadfly, and analyzed key education policy issues.

  Expenses $1,001,187 · Grants $5,750

• Researching and Evaluating High Quality School Choice: produced and disseminated studies that examine how the expansion of charter schools is impacting traditional public schools, whether charter teachers exhibit higher expectations for their students than their public school peers, and the impact and spending patterns of so-called "for profit" charter schools, among other topics.

  Expenses $634,488

• Researching and Evaluating Education for Upward Mobility: Producing and disseminating studies and policy briefs identifying evidence-based solutions and best-practice recommendations that help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults, including high-quality Career and Technical Education programs. Program expenses include direct and indirect expenditures.

  Expenses $502,312

• Researching and Evaluating Standards, Assessments, and Accountability: Producing and disseminating studies related to the implementation of standards-based reform, especially with respect to new measures of student absenteeism, evidence-based practices in elementary schools, and the history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Program expenses include direct and indirect expenditures.

  Expenses $298,201

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,780,476

  Expenses

  $3,935,524

  Contributions

  $2,680,156

  Grants paid

  $5,750

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,104,202

  Expenses

  $3,862,453

  Contributions

  $1,986,481

  Grants paid

  $23,891

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,050,355

  Expenses

  $3,139,829

  Contributions

  $849,981

  Grants paid

  $2,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,932,903

  Expenses

  $3,434,518

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,011,588

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,266,040

  Expenses

  $3,620,616

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,996,430

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,169,138

  Expenses

  $3,739,542

  Assets (EOY)

  $8,441,148

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• CITY FUND

  $160,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT PLANNING FOR A POTENTIAL NEW ORGANIZATION TO ADVOCATE FOR IMPROVED CHARTER POLICY AND THE GROWTH OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS SERVED BY HIGH QUALITY CHARTERS IN OHIO

• CHARTER FUND INC

  $94,334

  2024 · CHARTER SCHOOL CAPACITY-BUILDING

• CAMPAIGN FOR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION OF OHIOS CHARTER ADVOCACY ENVIRONMENT

• CITY FUND

  $38,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION OF OHIOS CHARTER ADVOCACY ENVIRONMENT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $10,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Other IRS files