· Public charity
Accelerate Great Schools
To ensure every student in every neighborhood of cincinnati has access to a great school.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $558k
- $250k+4 grants · $8.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $6,778,850 |
| REGENERATION SCHOOLS | $1,074,982 |
| SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS | $527,785 |
| SKYROCKET EDUCATION | $274,900 |
| THE LITERACY LAB | $225,000 |
| ROMERO ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $87,750 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| SOARING HAWKS FOUNDATION | $65,375 |
| CHIEFS FOR CHANGE | $37,500 |
| REBEL CULTURE | $28,750 |
| RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $25,350 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND INC | $7,760 |
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 (FY19–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- IPIDEA Public Schools5× · 2020–2024 · $33M · revenue +78%
- RSREGENERATION SCHOOLS6× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +257% · 58% of their budget
- SESETON EDUCATION PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +776% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CCISEone grant, 2020 · $119k · revenue -68%
- PCPRINCETON CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LSLOCKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $85k
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 32 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
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 IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds REGENERATION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SKYROCKET EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds The Center for Better Schools ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds ROMERO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SOARING HAWKS FOUNDATION THE SOARING HAWKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHIEFS FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds Thomas B Fordham Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAD INIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO EXCELS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Schools Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Accelerate Great 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.
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.