WASHINGTON — It pays to be a cause that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos cares about.

In the year before Ms. DeVos was nominated for her post, the billionaire philanthropist and her husband poured money into more than 100 organizations across a broad spectrum of causes. The Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation reported $14.3 million in charitable giving, according to 2016 tax filings provided by the organization to The New York Times.

The beneficiaries are a diverse group, many aligning with causes the DeVos family has championed: the city of Grand Rapids, publicly funded vouchers for private schools, conservative politics and Christian organizations, low-income children and families, innovation and the arts. A few organizations reflect the more complex picture of Ms. DeVos that has emerged since her rocky nomination process.

In accord with her ethics agreement, Ms. DeVos resigned from the foundation the day after she was nominated for secretary of education.

Here are the highlights.

Xprize Foundation, Inc.

$3.75 million

The Xprize Foundation is a nonprofit that puts on million-dollar global competitions to foster innovation. The organization’s mission statement is to “transform how people think about the world’s biggest problems and incentivize their solutions.” For example, one Xprize competition was for a team to “autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert while transmitting information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds.”