Digital Promise Global

Digital Promise Global, a Washington, DC–based nonprofit organization, receives federal funding as a prime recipient of research and professional-learning grants and as a prime contractor for educational-technology leadership work, with a posture of competing in full-and-open categories without set-aside designation. The organization holds no seats on government-wide contract vehicles and does not compete on federal service contracts in the SCI-reportable space; its footprint is grant-centric, anchored in the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education.

Digital Promise's customer concentration is tightly held by research and education agencies. The National Science Foundation accounts for 14 awards worth $5.7 million in combined potential value (the highest dollar value among named customers), including work under the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings and the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development together hold 11 awards; the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development alone anchors a $3.1 million prime contract awarded in September 2024 for national educational technology leadership activities through the Office of Educational Technology, with a ceiling value of $3,079,781.51 and performance through September 2029. Top five customers by award count cover 87% of the portfolio. Digital Promise received one cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in April 2024 for the Building Inclusive Pathways through the East Alabama Regional Cybersecurity Alliance (EARCA) program, supporting K-12 cybersecurity workforce development in rural Alabama.

Digital Promise's capability portfolio centers on K-12 educational research, curriculum design, professional learning, and policy development for computational thinking, data literacy, artificial intelligence integration, and STEM education. Representative prime work includes a $5.7 million NSF Definitive Contract awarded September 2022 for management of the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Competition, aimed at fostering innovation in learning technologies. Recent NSF grant recipients include a $889,630 collaborative research grant awarded October 2025 under CFDA 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) for developing K-12 data-science pathways across four school districts (Broward County FL, Indian Prairie IL, Iowa City IA, and Talladega County AL) in partnership with Looking Glass Ventures and Data Science 4 Everyone. Digital Promise also received a $1.46 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under CFDA 84.305 (Education Research, Development and Dissemination) awarded September 2025 for the Community Hub of Accelerate, Transform, Scale (ATS) Teams initiative, supporting education research activities to improve student academic achievement.

Activity has remained relatively steady, with four to nine prime awards annually from 2022 through 2024, declining to six in 2025 and two year-to-date in 2026. Five awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating potential recompete exposure for Digital Promise and opportunity for competitors. The combined potential value across all 45 awards (prime and sub) stands at $9.9 million, though combined dollars obligated across all awards reach $58.4 million, indicating that the source data captures only a slice of Digital Promise's federal grant and contract activity and that actual obligated values substantially exceed stated potential values.

Digital Promise operates as a prime on 73% of its federal awards, with 27% routed through subcontractor engagement to larger primes. In its subcontractor role, Digital Promise has worked under the University of Pennsylvania on data-science methods training programs for digital learning platforms (multiple awards from August 2023 through December 2025), under Sri International on community college research and capacity building, under William Marsh Rice University on national learning science infrastructure, and under the Aspen Institute on a global youth virtual exchange and app-development program. Digital Promise also subcontracted to MDRC on a school-improvement program evaluation (award modified and budget increased March 2024). Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI-reportable federal-services revenue; Digital Promise reported zero invoiced revenue across FY2022–FY2025 in the SCI system, with FTE delivery ranging from 0.1 FTEs in FY2022 to 28.9 FTEs in FY2025 on one prime record and scattered sub records, indicating that SCI captures only a small fraction of Digital Promise's actual federal engagement.

Digital Promise collaborates with woman-owned small businesses including The Hatcher Group on communications and design support across educational-technology contracts and grants. The organization's footprint reflects positioning as a research-and-policy thought leader for K-12 educational technology rather than as a delivery contractor competing on service vehicles or IDIQs.