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4point0 Schools
Provide training, investment, and start-up support to new and existing organizations dedicated to improving schooling in the United States.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $209,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $558,766 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $349,766 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pivotal Paradigm Project LLC | $5,500 |
| Edifii Inc | $5,500 |
| Noxhegalactica LLC | $5,500 |
| FL Disabil Access Aware Fnd | $5,500 |
| Charla Collective LLC | $5,500 |
| Urban Dexterity LLC | $5,500 |
| Travel Through Literacy Inc | $5,500 |
| Framed by Fal Enterprises LLC | $5,500 |
| REDEFINE THIS | $5,500 |
| Brudda LLC | $5,500 |
| The Black Box | $5,500 |
| Go Darryl Go Inc | $5,500 |
| Connecticut Scholars Inc | $5,500 |
| Fig Education Lab | $5,500 |
| Ourspace World Inc | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +272% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RSROOTED SCHOOL2× · 2017–2020 · $125k · revenue +611%
- APATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue ×32
- STSTEM TO THE FUTURE2× · 2019–2022 · $34k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- NMNOLA MICRO SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -70% · 42% of their budget
- T1THE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +48%
- MIMake It Count LLCone grant, 2021 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
B.E. Academy for Girls empowers young women through a rigorous, culturally responsive STEAM curriculum that centers identity, cultivates leadership and critical thinking, and integrates real-world experiences to prepare them for college,…
Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
STEM4Real is a professional learning nonprofit organization committed to equity, anti-racism and social justice in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. We help schools and districts create culturally responsive STEM…
360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
The mission of Big Thought is to make imagination a part of everyday learning. We bring relentless optimism, innovation, and imagination to the biggest problem facing education today: the opportunity gap.
Movement BE is a nonprofit arts and youth development organization that empowers Black and Brown youth and communities through creative expression, storytelling, mentorship, and social-emotional learning. We provide afterschool and summer…
Thrive Ed's purpose is to fundamentally transform education by powering teachers, leadership teams, and students individually and collectively, to thrive in school and life and in a global society, and transform education as we know it…
Providing stem education to schools
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Reaction Lab and the most unlike its peers is Global Voice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 7 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 27% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 239 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROOTED SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NOVELLY ↗
- Who funds THE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MindCatcher Education ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEACEFUL WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds STEM TO THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds ELECTRIC GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Be Loud Studios ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE REACTION LAB ↗
- Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
- Who funds Building Opportunities & Opening Minds ↗
- Who funds TrainingGrounds Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEYEAR ↗
- Who funds DENT EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Camelback Ventures · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Gpoa Foundation · Echoing Green Inc · Cityschools Collaborative · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Education Forward DC · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 4point0 Schools funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance Inc — 23% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ourspace World Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.