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Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning
ACCELERATE - THE NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE FOR ACCELERATED LEARNING (accelerate) brings evidence-based practices to scale in public education by bridging gaps between research, policy and school systems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $3,387,500 |
| TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY | $711,394 |
| ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DIVISION OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUC | $550,000 |
| CITYBRIDGE EDUCATION | $325,000 |
| DC TREASURER OFFICE OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION (OSSE) | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $250,000 |
| TENNESSEE SCORE | $225,000 |
| COURSEMOJO INC | $225,000 |
| LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC | $225,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS | $225,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| AIR EDUCATION INC | $225,000 |
| CIGNITION INC | $225,000 |
| THE INNOVATION PROJECT | $200,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $140k) 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 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.
42 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
University of Chicago2× · 2024–2025 · $15M · revenue +15%- 5I50CAN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $258k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +35%
- SISAGA INNOVATIONS INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +5%
- RFREADING FUTURES INCone grant, 2024 · $150k
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.
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…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
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…
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.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.
The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.
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Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 117 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOVATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SAGA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Oakland REACH ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL READERS INC ↗
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: America Achieves Inc · Gates Foundation · New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Cityschools Collaborative · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc
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 - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc — 54% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
- New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc — 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Read Usa Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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