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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.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Science & Tech$17MEducation$15MCivil Rights$925kEnvironment$456kPublic Benefit$455kYouth Development$410kEmployment$150kReligion$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.8M
$100,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$250,000
TENNESSEE SCORE$225,000
CIGNITION INC$225,000
NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS$225,000
LITERACY MID-SOUTH INC$225,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$225,000
COURSEMOJO INC$225,000
AIR EDUCATION INC$225,000
THE INNOVATION PROJECT$200,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OHIO EXCELS: $5k → 15%LEARNING ALLY INC: $5k → 11%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $125k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MANHATTAN INC: $5k → 17%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

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MN
IL
WI
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NY
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OR
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OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
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AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 42 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
49

Total granted

$28M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15M · revenue +15%
  • 5I
    50CAN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
  • KI
    Kipp Indianapolis Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $258k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +35%
  • SI
    SAGA INNOVATIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +5%
  • RF
    READING FUTURES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
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
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
2
Springboard Collaborative

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…

Human Services
3
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
4
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
5
Tutoring Chicago

Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.

Arts & Culture
6
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
7
The Peak School

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…

Education
8
Blue Engine Inc

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

Education
9
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
10
New Teacher Center

New teacher center (ntc) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving outcomes for all students by accelerating teacher and school leader effectiveness. from preschool through high school, (continued on schedule o)

Education
11
Equal Opportunity Schools

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…

Education
12
Read Alliance Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 117 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
41/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $15,387,500 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,294,209 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY50CAN INC: $1,000,000 · Education+45 more: $5,430,280 · Education+45 moreNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $1,250,000 · OtherNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTECOLORADO ENERGY OFFICE: $1,000,000 · OtherCOLORADO ENERGY OFFICESTATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRO: $1,000,000 · OtherSTATE OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF NAT…STATE OF OHIO: $1,000,000 · OtherSTATE OF OHIOTexas Education Agency: $711,394 · OtherTexas Education AgencyAIR EDUCATION INC: $456,000 · OtherGuilford Co Public Schools: $427,500 · Other+51 more: $5,208,700 · Other+51 moreJOYFUL READERS INC: $162,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEADERS OF EXCELLENCE INC: $150,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentVALUES TO ACTION: $155,000 · Public BenefitEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesOHIO EXCELS: $5,000 · Human ServicesGlobal Impact: $130,000 · International100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Education$23,111,989Other$11,053,594Youth Development$322,500Public Benefit$155,000Human Services$140,000International$130,000Community Improvement$75,000

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 budgetUniversity of Chicago: $15,387,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,294,209 over 2y, 0.0% of budget50CAN INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION: $512,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $330,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $262,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKipp Indianapolis Inc: $257,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $257,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $257,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $255,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $230,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS: $225,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLITERACY MID-SOUTH INC: $225,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE INNOVATION PROJECT: $205,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $200,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oakland REACH: $180,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSTEP UP TUTORING: $162,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetJOYFUL READERS INC: $162,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $157,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJUMP MATH INC: $157,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetREAD USA INC: $157,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetVALUES TO ACTION: $155,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetBay Area Tutoring Asociation: $150,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Impact: $130,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING AND MATH INC: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUTURE FORWARD INC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $82,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF METROPOLITAN BATON ROUGE LTD: $75,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpelman College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITY FIRST USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN HERITAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetiEDUCATE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

America Achieves IncGates FoundationNew Schools FundWalton Family Foundat…Michael & Susan Dell …Cityschools Collabora…Overdeck Family Found…Project Lead the Way …Educational Credit Ma…GenYOUTH IncorporatedRockefeller Philanthr…Council of State and …
America Achieves IncNY41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 117 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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