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Accelerate Great Schools

To ensure every student in every neighborhood of cincinnati has access to a great school.

$9.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$6.8M
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$53MPhilanthropy$150kYouth Development$59kScience & Tech$29k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $558k
  • $250k+4 grants · $8.7M
$87,750
Median grant
5
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OHIO EXCELS: $25k → 15%DIRECTING ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: $18k → 16%DIRECTING ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 16%DIRECTING ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 16%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

WA
IL
NY
IN
OH
RI
CA
NC
DC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52M · 17 repeat orgs$748k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$52M
$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
0%

Still filing today

88%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionScience & TechOther
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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    5× · 2020–2024 · $33M · revenue +78%
  • RS
    REGENERATION SCHOOLS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +257% · 58% of their budget
  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +776% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • C
    CISE
    one grant, 2020 · $119k · revenue -68%
  • PC
    PRINCETON CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • LS
    LOCKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
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
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
2
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
3
The Leadership Academy Inc

Harnessing leadership as a lever for change, we partner with education leaders through professional learning and coaching to transform schools and accelerate learning for all students.

Education
4
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
5
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
6
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
7
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
8
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
9
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
10
Mastery Charter School - Thomas Campus

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for post-secondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
11
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
12
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chiefs for Change; the most unlike its peers is Dad Iniative. 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

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
10/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IDEA Public Schools: $32,902,550 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsREGENERATION SCHOOLS: $5,747,288 · EducationREGENERATION SCHOOLSCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,186,943 · EducationCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS+12 more: $2,293,143 · EducationSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $4,827,971 · PhilanthropySETON EDUC…+2 more: $165,000 · PhilanthropyCincinnati City School District: $1,264,635 · OtherThe Center for Better Schools: $164,650 · OtherPRINCETON CITY SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherLOCKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT: $85,109 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · Other+5 more: $124,400 · OtherCISE: $118,780 · ReligionDAD INIATIVE: $29,950 · Human ServicesOHIO EXCELS: $25,000 · Human ServicesResearch Triangle Institute: $29,000 · Science & Tech
Education$46,129,924Philanthropy$4,992,971Other$1,818,794Religion$118,780Human Services$54,950Science & Tech$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDEA Public Schools: $32,902,550 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetREGENERATION SCHOOLS: $5,747,288 over 6y, 58% of budgetCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,186,943 over 6y, 63% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $4,827,971 over 8y, 28% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,013,976 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSKYROCKET EDUCATION: $300,100 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $275,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Center for Better Schools: $164,650 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $152,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCISE: $118,780 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $110,780 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROMERO ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SOARING HAWKS FOUNDATION THE SOARING HAWKS FOUNDATION: $93,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetCHIEFS FOR CHANGE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $65,559 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $41,878 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTNTP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas B Fordham Foundation: $39,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDAD INIATIVE: $29,950 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $25,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO EXCELS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,850 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Walton Family Foundat…New Schools FundThe Greater Cincinnat…Lovett & Ruth Peters …Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Carnegie Corporation …Gates FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Walton Family Foundation IncAR16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Accelerate Great Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accelerate Great 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 32 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.

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