How much did 4point0 Schools grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of 4point0 Schools’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

tiny fellowship

2020

tiny fellowship

2021

educational systemsystem challenges

2022

vela meetmeet momentvela angelfellowship venturefellowship velatiny fellowship

2023

tiny fellowfellow angeltiny fellowship

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $20k
$10k–50k59 grants · $606k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

Cambio Labs$15,433
Joy Village LLC$15,433
Learning Ahead$12,717
Liberation Journeys$12,433
Project Flourish$10,000
Triple 7 Ranch$10,000
Inner Realms Journey$10,000
Math Speaks$10,000
North Star Technology$10,000
Prudence Harris-Minton$10,000
Canary Academy Online$10,000
OneInFive LLC$10,000
Radical Moves$10,000
Culturally Relevant Science$10,000
James Baldwin Early College$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$769k · 28 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106

Total granted

$769k

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+87%

Still filing today

29%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $606k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

AP
Atlas Public Schools
3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +2012%
ST
STEM to the Future
2× · 2019–2022 · $34k · revenue +1649%
BL
Be Loud Studios
2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +284%

Funded once

T1
The 1881 Research Institute
one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +22%
MI
Make It Count LLC
one grant, 2021 · $35k
DL
Dominion Literacy
one grant, 2021 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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Transformational Education Inc

Leader in me is a whole-school transformation model and process developed in partnership with educators that empowers students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.

Education

Creative City Public Charter School

Allow teachers, students and parents to share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed…

Education

Steam & Dream Liberation Labs

Education

Youth Development

Imagination Lab School

Progressive education in a k-8 school, fostering in-depth learning, inspiring creativity, cultivating critical thinking, social emotional learning, collaboration and communication skills to realize each students potential.

Education

STEM4Real

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…

Education

Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

Rethink's mission is to support black youth in becoming thoughtful leaders, capable of critically rethinking their experiences, and taking action to create and sustain transformative systemic change.

Youth Development

Let's Innovate Through Education Dba Lit

Equipping african american and latinx students with 21st century skills to create wealth.

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Lead Liberated

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 the…

Education

Student Global Ambassador Project

SGAP Leaders empowers teens to become agents of change in their communities and beyond by thinking critically, applying STEM, and championing social impact. Our in-person or virtual workshops, tours and speaker series provide a vehicle for…

Education

Catalyst Education Inc

To mobilize and leverage the collective expertise in education to strengthen schools, school systems, and education nonprofits to ensure equity and excellence for all kids.

Education

Learning Undefeated Inc

Learning Undefeated is driving race and gender equity in science, technology, engineering, and math STEM for underserved communities through the delivery of innovative, effective, and experiential education and workforce development…

Community Improvement

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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

13/194

the rest of the field

11%

206,151/1,819,371

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.

05the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/64

Grantees still filing

41/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,941,184Education$465,151Arts & Culture$82,000Youth Development$65,000Human Services$59,000Community Improvement$45,000Philanthropy$37,800

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.

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.

New Schools FundCA46.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Camelback Ventures · Citytutor DC · The Gpoa Foundation · Education Forward DC · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Echoing Green Inc · Baptist Community Ministries · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · United Way of Southeast Louisiana

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Georgia Educators for Equity.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 863294081 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Georgia Educators for Equity, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to 4point0 Schools?

Find your warmest path to 4point0 Schools through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

4point0 Schools

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to 4point0 Schools?

More from the funding graph

4point0 Schools

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to 4point0 Schools?

More from the funding graph