Educational Justice

What Educational Justice does

Educational Justice (EJ) is a Louisville, Kentucky-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 by Moshe Ohayon that operates a no-cost peer tutoring and mentorship program pairing underserved 5th–8th grade students with high-achieving high school peers for long-term, one-on-one academic and social-emotional support. Since launching its scalable program model in 2016, EJ has facilitated 1,608 tutoring pairs and delivered 41,998 tutoring hours, reporting average increases of 1.6 grade levels in math and 1.0–1.7 grade levels in reading for participating scholars. In 2023 the organization broadened its scope by integrating social-emotional skills training through a partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), which created a peer-focused mental health program used to train EJ mentors.

The organization's core technology platform consists of the EJ Connect web portal and a COPPA-compliant mobile application (developed by MA Enterprise LLC and hosted on Microsoft Azure), which support tutor-scholar matching, chat, file sharing, and calendar-based session scheduling. Tutoring sessions are delivered via Google Meet, with content drawn from IXL (minimum 15 minutes per session), Khan Academy, and TalentLMS, while Remind serves as the primary messaging channel and OneCause powers the annual Great Bourbon Spelling Bee fundraiser. EJ employs approximately 31 staff and operates under a community-led go-to-market model that recruits scholars through applications and referrals, mentors through school outreach, and partners with schools, nonprofits, and community organizations that use EJ as a turn-key after-school solution.

EJ is funded entirely through individual donations, corporate contributions, and foundation grants from a diversified set of institutional funders including the William Barth Foundation, James Graham Brown Foundation, Endeavor Education, Genentech, Kosair Charities, Gheens Foundation, LG&E, and Impact 100, among others. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and led by CEO and Executive Director Bryan Andres Azucena Warren. In 2024 EJ received the Kentucky Governor's Service Award for Youth Agencies, and it has announced plans to expand into Shelby County, Kentucky in fall 2026, its first geographic extension beyond the Louisville market.

Name

Educational Justice

Legal name

Educational Justice Inc.

Website

https://educationaljustice.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Educational Justice is a Louisville-based nonprofit that pairs 5th-8th grade students with high-achieving high school peers for free, one-on-one virtual tutoring and mentorship, supported by a COPPA-compliant web and mobile platform and funded by foundation grants and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Education and Tutoring Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Tutoring + Learning Content Platforms (Curriculum + Tutors) (EDANAGAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Literacy & Numeracy Intervention (Reading/Math Support) (EDAJALAD), School-Based SEL Curriculum & Instructional Programs (EDAKAMAA)

Keywords

• Peer tutoring services
• Youth mentorship programs
• Academic tutoring support
• Nonprofit education services
• Social-emotional learning

Headquarters

HQ city

Louisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: Individual and corporate donations from supporters. The organization depends on donor generosity to fund operations and provide support for students.
2. Foundation Grants: Funding from charitable foundations including William Barth Foundation, James Graham Brown Foundation, Endeavor Education, Genentech, CS and E Foundation, Nicklies Foundation, LG&E, Sutherland Foundation, Gheens Foundation, Kosair Charities, and Impact 100.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Educational Justice delivers a free, virtual one-on-one peer tutoring and mentorship program that pairs 5th-8th grade students from low to moderate-income families with high-achieving high school mentors for weekly sessions throughout the school year. The program combines academic tutoring using IXL and Khan Academy with social-emotional skills training delivered in partnership with NAMI, and is supported by the proprietary EJ Web Portal and EJ Connect mobile app for matching, scheduling, and communication.

Product overview

Educational Justice is a nonprofit peer tutoring and mentorship organization offering a single unified program that pairs 5th-8th grade students with high-achieving high school peers for long-term one-on-one tutoring and mentorship. The program consists of the EJ Web Portal and EJ Connect App as the core technology platforms, supplemented by educational resources including IXL, TalentLMS, and Khan Academy. Mentors receive training through TalentLMS, while the annual Great Bourbon Spelling Bee serves as the primary fundraising event supporting program operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• EJ Mentor Program Free one-on-one peer tutoring and long-term mentorship program for 5th-8th grade scholars from low to moderate-income families, delivered by trained high school mentors through virtual sessions and in-person labs, covering academic subjects, homework help, test preparation, and social-emotional skills.
• EJ Web Portal Custom web portal platform for the Educational Justice tutoring and mentorship program that enables user registration, mentor-scholar messaging, calendar-based scheduling of tutoring sessions, and access to program resources.
• EJ Connect App Mobile application for the EJ Mentor Program featuring chat functionality, file sharing (PNG, JPEG, PDF), reading material sharing, and calendar-based tutoring session scheduling, with COPPA-compliant practices for users under 13.
• Social-Emotional Skills Training Integration Social-emotional learning component integrated into the EJ Mentor Program, developed with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), in which trained mentors support younger peers with social-emotional skills and mental health coping strategies alongside academic tutoring.

Quantifiable outcome

• Students show 1.6 average increase in math grade level
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNAMI created a peer-focused mental health program to train EJ mentors using their nationally accredited process. This partnership enables EJ to provide social-emotional skills training to mentors.
• Community OrganizationscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEJ provides turn-key solutions to enhance after-school tutoring programs run by community partners and nonprofits.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud hosting provider for Educational Justice's web services and platform infrastructure.
• MA Enterprise LLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeveloper contracted to build and run the EJ Connect platform.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Tutor.com (now part of The Princeton Review): Commercial online tutoring platform providing one-on-one sessions. Comparable virtual tutoring delivery mechanism but commercial rather than free; competes for the same K-12 supplemental instruction category.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America: National youth-development nonprofit offering after-school programming including homework help and tutoring. Comparable as a community-based youth-services competitor operating in EJ's geographies.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: Large national mentoring nonprofit with comparable one-on-one mentoring mission for youth. While broader in scope and not academic-tutoring focused, it competes for the same donor dollars and mentor pool.

Direct peers

• Minnesota Reading Corps: AmeriCorps program using trained tutors to deliver evidence-based literacy interventions to K-3 students. Comparable in mission and measurable-reading-outcomes approach to EJ's literacy intervention work.
• Experience Corps (AARP Foundation): Program that mobilizes older adult volunteers to tutor struggling elementary readers. Comparable to EJ in deploying non-traditional volunteer pools to deliver free one-on-one literacy tutoring in underserved communities.
• City Year: AmeriCorps-affiliated nonprofit deploying near-peer young adult mentors into K-12 schools for tutoring, attendance support, and SEL. Operates in similar geographies with a near-peer mentoring model focused on academic and social-emotional outcomes.
• Reading Partners: National nonprofit that recruits volunteer tutors to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to underserved elementary students. Highly comparable to EJ in mission, volunteer-driven delivery model, and K-12 academic-intervention focus.
• iCouldBe: Nonprofit operating an online mentoring platform that pairs low-income middle school students with adult and near-peer mentors for academic and SEL support. Closely aligned with EJ's virtual near-peer mentoring methodology.

Emerging players

• Schoolhouse.world: Nonprofit online tutoring platform founded by Sal Khan offering free peer-to-peer tutoring by high-achieving students. Closely mirrors EJ's high-schooler-tutors-middle-schooler model in a virtual format.

Others

• Khan Academy: Free online learning platform that EJ already integrates as a curriculum resource. Not a direct competitor but a strategic ecosystem partner that could enable or disintermediate supplemental learning offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/educationaljustice
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/educationaljustice

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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