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Fund a district.
What that means.

A district engagement runs in the tens of thousands. One commitment can carry a district all the way through, or halve the cost for two districts that can meet the Foundation at the halfway line. Every dollar goes to the independent firms doing the work.

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Two ways in

A district doesn't have to prove hardship to get help. It has to be honest about the number.

01 · The match

The district funds half. The Foundation funds the rest.

A thirty-thousand-dollar engagement lands on the district's books at fifteen.

Qualifying is light on purpose. Tell us the budget picture and what makes the full number hard. We're not asking a superintendent to open the district's books over a match this size.

02 · The application

When a district can't reach half, the Foundation can go further.

Past the halfway line there's a written application, and the board looks at how the district is spending.

That's not suspicion, it's arithmetic. Money raised for districts that can't pay has to reach districts that can't pay.

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What a gift protects

A grant buys the same work a well-funded district buys, from the same people, at the same standard. Every dollar goes to the independent firms doing it.

For foundations and donors

What a commitment actually does.

District engagements run in the tens of thousands. One commitment can carry a district all the way through, or halve the cost for two. It buys the same work a well-funded district buys, from the same people, at the same standard.

There's no overhead cut on the way through. What the Foundation raises goes to engagements and to the firms that deliver them.

01 Fund a district

Underwrite one engagement, start to finish.

You'll get the scope going in and what changed coming out. The district decides whether it's named.

Typical range

$15,000 – $45,000 depending on district size, EdTech footprint, and existing security posture.

02 Commit against a spend-down

Working to a deadline this year?

We can take a commitment now against work scheduled once the Foundation is operating. You get the deduction on your timeline; districts get the audit on theirs.

Fit

Foundations closing out a program, DAFs approaching year-end, individuals in a large-gift year.

03 Adopt a region

Concentrate giving in the state or metro you already fund.

We'll place the work in districts you name, or in a region you designate, and report back on which districts received support.

Fit

Regional community foundations, place-based funders, family foundations with a local focus.

An independent board approves every grant. How the board is structured →
501(c)(3): application in progress
Gifts: commitments accepted now
Contact: info@loopandledger.org
Fund a district

Start the conversation.

Every dollar goes to the independent firms doing the work.

See exactly what your gift protects, and how a grant reaches the district that needs it. We'll walk you through where the money lands — and what changes for students when it does.