The IDEA Foundation operates with a comprehensive focus on supporting high-risk students, their educators, and families. These students often include those who live in disadvantaged, high poverty, rural locations that may not have appropriate resources readily available. 
 
IDEA maintains the connections with stakeholders who can make a difference. For instance, IDEA has a collaborative relationship with agribusinesses across the nation that benefits the agriculture industry and America's food supply by supporting the education of mobile farmworker students.  
 
IDEA’s partnership with Kansas State University provides innumerable collaboration opportunities for these efforts to continue expansion across the nation. There are currently 34 states with IDEA-backed programs covering each state’s entire population of identified at-risk students.

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The IDEA Foundation’s home state of Kansas is the lead state for both iSOSY and IDRC. IDEA’s close relationships with the Kansas Department of Education, Kansas State University, and the directors of its various programs provides a robust structure for achieving the goals of the foundation.