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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.

$559k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MReligion$577kYouth Development$301kArts & Culture$165kScience & Tech$117kHealth$80kHuman Services$70kCommunity Improvement$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $209,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $558,766 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $349,766 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miss Shannons Therapy 4 Kidz$5,500
Brudda LLC$5,500
Los Compas Coffee LLC$5,500
Global Limitless Solutions$5,500
The Connell School of Writing$5,500
Aedify Inc$5,500
Authentic Adventures LLC$5,500
OAARS LLC$5,500
Smarticles$5,500
EdgeUCoin Inc$5,500
Just Focus Online Learning$5,500
Ed-Insite$5,500
Edifii Inc$5,500
Prominent Youth Foundation$5,500
Samuel Enterprises LLC$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seventh Generation Fund: $10k → 18%UnLearning Space: $6k → 14%Infinite Flow: $7k → 14%Seventh Generation Fund: $10k → 18%Psyches of Color: $10k → 14%BridgeYear: $7k → 16%Bridge Year: $15k → 16%STEM Library: $7k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 36 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +272% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
166

Total granted

$1.0M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+272%
+40%

Still filing today

36%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RS
    ROOTED SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2020 · $125k · revenue +611%
  • AP
    ATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue ×32
  • ST
    STEM TO THE FUTURE
    2× · 2019–2022 · $34k · revenue ×14

Funded once

  • NM
    NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue -70% · 42% of their budget
  • T1
    THE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +48%
  • MI
    Make It Count LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Be Academy of Steam

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,…

Education
2
Building Bridges Education

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…

Education
3
Institute for Applied Tinkering

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.

Youth Development
4
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
5
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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6
The School for Global Thinkers

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…

Education
7
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…

Education
8
Breakthrough Birmingham

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.

Education
9
Big Thought

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Movement Brave Entrepreneur

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…

Education
11
Thrive Ed

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…

Education
12
Leap Enrichment

Providing stem education to schools

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Reaction Lab; 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.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 239 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/73
Grantees still filing
44/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOLA MICRO SCHOOLS: $120,000 · OtherNOLA MICRO SCHOOLS+148 more: $2,014,313 · Other+148 moreROOTED SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationROOTED SCHOOLATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,000 · EducationATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLSTHE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $35,000 · EducationTHE 1881 RESEARCH INST…MindCatcher Education: $35,000 · EducationMindCatcher EducationSTEM TO THE FUTURE: $33,725 · EducationSTEM TO THE FUTUREBe Loud Studios: $30,000 · EducationTrainingGrounds Inc: $23,245 · EducationDENT EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · Education+22 more: $256,453 · Education+22 moreDANCING GROUNDS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSecond Line Arts Collective: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOATES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEYEAR: $21,950 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPSYCHES OF COLOR: $10,000 · Human ServicesINFINITE FLOW DANCE: $7,000 · Human ServicesSTEM LIBRARY LAB: $7,000 · Human ServicesBuilding Opportunities & Opening Minds: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH RUN NOLA INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentProject OneTen: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Common Ground: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATIVE REACTION LAB: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOCELOTL: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $10,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION IS FOREVER CORP: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $7,800 · Philanthropy
Other$2,134,313Education$598,423Arts & Culture$82,000Human Services$65,950Youth Development$65,000Community Improvement$45,000Philanthropy$37,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOTED SCHOOL: $125,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetNOLA MICRO SCHOOLS: $120,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNOVELLY: $35,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMindCatcher Education: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT PEACEFUL WARRIORS: $34,001 over 3y, 32% of budgetSTEM TO THE FUTURE: $33,725 over 2y, 10% of budgetBe Loud Studios: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDANCING GROUNDS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCREATIVE REACTION LAB: $25,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetTrainingGrounds Inc: $23,245 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR: $21,950 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENT EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMINDRIGHT INC: $18,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetARTS EDUCATION IN MARYLAND SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $17,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAMBIO LABS CO: $15,433 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH RUN NOLA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe Transition Academy: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEPITOME OF SOUL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSecond Line Arts Collective: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLEDE NEW ORLEANS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN INDEPENDENT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLiberation Journeys: $12,433 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOURSPACE WORLD INC: $11,533 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $11,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBLUUM INC: $10,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUBEL&CO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPSYCHES OF COLOR: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFREE FELLOWSHIP FOR RACE & EQUITY IN EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSeekHealing: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBARTON INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOATES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA EDUCATORS FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetCapitol Learning Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWeird Enough Company Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIntech Foundation Inc: $9,250 over 1y, 16% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $7,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINFINITE FLOW DANCE: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Be Loud Studios ↗
  • Who funds ELECTRIC GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
  • Who funds Building Opportunities & Opening Minds ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE REACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds TrainingGrounds Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEYEAR ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Schools FundCamelback VenturesThe Greater New Orlea…The Gpoa FoundationEchoing Green IncCityschools Collabora…Walton Family Foundat…Education Forward DCPro Bono Publico Foun…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…
New Schools FundCA46.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 4point0 Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4point0 Schools. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 239 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $473k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home