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Alliance for Choice in Education

The organization's mission is to advance k-12 educational freedom, with a focus on securing financial support for families so they may access the quality education of their choice.

$49M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2021
80%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2025
$4.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$4,948,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,948,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$94M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 80% of the organizations Alliance for Choice in Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$4.9M100%
FY20215$598k80%
FY20202$100k0%
FY20192$100k0%
FY20182$15k100%
FY20172$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.9MPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ace Services$4,948,0001100%
St Labre Indian School$320,0004n/a
Bishop Machebeuf High School Inc$250,0001n/a
Central Denver Classical High School$250,0001n/a
De la Salle Blackfeet School$60,0003n/a
The Childrens Scholarship Fund$10,0001n/a
Foster's Outriders Foundation$10,00012%
Rockhurst High School$8,0001n/a
Jackson Hole Classical Academy Inc$5,00010%

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Alliance for Choice in Education

How much does Alliance for Choice in Education give?
Alliance for Choice in Education reported 1 itemized grants totaling $4,948,000, out of $49,361,498 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Alliance for Choice in Education fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Public Benefit (0%).
Who are Alliance for Choice in Education's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ace Services ($4.9M), St Labre Indian School ($320k), Bishop Machebeuf High School Inc ($250k).
Does Alliance for Choice in Education fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for Choice in Education?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Alliance for Choice in Education based?
Alliance for Choice in Education is based in CO.

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 9 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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