Ohio · Public charity
Accelerate Great Schools
To ensure every student in every neighborhood of cincinnati has access to a great school.
- $9.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $87,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,778,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Accelerate Great Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $9.3M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $10M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $8.7M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $11M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $6.3M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $4.7M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $1.4M | 63% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA Public Schools | $32,902,550 | 5 | 1% |
| Regeneration Schools | $5,747,288 | 6 | 58% |
| Citizens of the World Charter Schools | $5,186,943 | 6 | 63% |
| Seton Education Partners | $4,827,971 | 8 | 28% |
| Cincinnati City School District | $1,264,635 | 4 | n/a |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,013,976 | 8 | 0% |
| Skyrocket Education | $300,100 | 2 | 13% |
| The Literacy Lab | $275,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Center for Better Schools | $164,650 | 3 | 8% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $152,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEA Public Schools | $32,902,550 | 5 | 1% |
| Regeneration Schools | $5,747,288 | 6 | 58% |
| Citizens of the World Charter Schools | $5,186,943 | 6 | 63% |
| Seton Education Partners | $4,827,971 | 8 | 28% |
| Cincinnati City School District | $1,264,635 | 4 | n/a |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,013,976 | 8 | 0% |
| Skyrocket Education | $300,100 | 2 | 13% |
| The Literacy Lab | $275,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Center for Better Schools | $164,650 | 3 | 8% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $152,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cise | $118,780 | 1 | 1% |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $110,780 | 3 | 0% |
| Princeton City Schools | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Romero Academy | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Soaring Hawks Foundation the Soaring Hawks Foundation | $93,500 | 2 | 100% |
| Lockland School District | $85,109 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami University | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chiefs for Change | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $65,559 | 1 | 0% |
| Phalen Leadership Academy - Indiana | $41,878 | 1 | 0% |
| Tntp Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thomas B Fordham Foundation | $39,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Francis de Sales School | $34,247 | 2 | n/a |
| Dad Iniative | $29,950 | 3 | 8% |
| Research Triangle Institute | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rebel Culture | $28,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Relay Graduate School of Education | $25,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Ohio Excels | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Catholic Conference | $11,553 | 1 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Christian University | $10,850 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Accelerate Great Schools supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Accelerate Great Schools
- How much does Accelerate Great Schools give?
- Accelerate Great Schools reported 14 grants totaling $9,334,702 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Accelerate Great Schools fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%), Philanthropy (0%), Youth Development (0%).
- Who are Accelerate Great Schools's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: IDEA Public Schools ($33M), Regeneration Schools ($5.7M), Citizens of the World Charter Schools ($5.2M).
- Does Accelerate Great Schools fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Accelerate Great Schools?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, New Schools Fund, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
- Where is Accelerate Great Schools based?
- Accelerate Great Schools is based in OH.
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