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America Achieves Inc

America achieves is devoted to advancing economic and educational opportunity, mobility, and pathways to good jobs and careers, including for low- and moderate-income and other underserved communities.

$372k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$23MEmployment$740kPublic Benefit$603kPhilanthropy$276kYouth Development$250kSocial Science$140kEnvironment$50kCommunity Improvement$30k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $250,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $372,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$40,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$40,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$40,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO$40,000
DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$40,000
COMMONWEALTH CENTER FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING$40,000
ACCELERATE MONTANA$30,000
NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Saga Innovations Inc: $500k → 8%ASSISTments Foundation: $250k → 11%Scholarship America: $418k → 9%READING PARTNERS: $250k → 10%IGNITE READING PBC: $250k → 10%AIR TUTORS: $250k → 12%TRY ONCE INC: $251k → 14%ZEARN: $500k → 17%GEC USA LLC: $125k → 20%Deans for Impact: $750k → 10%Arlington Independent School: $93k → 11%COMMIT: $150k → 14%The Brookings Institution: $75k → 14%JUMP MATH INC: $250k → 9%Northwest Evaluation Assoc: $190k → 8%TENNESSEE SCORE: $700k → 14%Great Oaks Foundation: $276k → 17%Guilford County Board of Ed: $603k → 16%RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $250k → 14%Southern Education Foundation: $1.0M → 13%University of Chicago: $8.7M → 14%AMERICA'S FRONTIER FUND: $50k → 7%Trilogy Mentors Inc: $250k → 9%BLACK HILLS SPECIAL SERVICES COOPERATIVE: $300k → 14%NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS: $500k → 23%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250k → 19%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $806k → 8%Scholarship America: $326k → 9%AMIRA LEARNING INC: $739k → 10%CAMBIAR EDUCATION: $500k → 14%Aspen Institute: $65k → 17%AMPLIFY: $250k → 20%Commit: $460k → 14%BACKFIELD IN MOTION INC: $100k → 14%Brown University: $1.1M → 14%SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $400k → 13%Scholarship America: $317k → 9%THE OAKLAND REACH: $350k → 10%San Francisco Education Fund: $250k → 10%New Visions for Public School: $66k → 17%Commit: $100k → 14%Brown University: $600k → 14%Scholarship America: $311k → 9%ScholarMatch: $221k → 10%TEACH FOR AMERICA INC: $500k → 17%Providence Public Schools: $100k → 14%ScholarMatch: $159k → 10%ScholarMatch: $136k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 5 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
34

Total granted

$4.2M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
EducationSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalScience & TechOther

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

  • SE
    SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +66%
  • SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +37%
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $710k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • University of Chicago
    one grant, 2022 · $8.7M · revenue +22%
  • DF
    Deans for Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +75% · 31% of their budget
  • AL
    Amira Learning Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $739k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
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
3
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
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
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
12
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Oaks Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Chicago — $8,651,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,400,000 · EducationSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $1,372,592 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $805,669 · EducationDeans for Impact — $750,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLAS — $710,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $700,000 · Education+17 more — $5,048,306 · Education+17 moreAmira Learning Inc — $739,240 · OtherAmira Learning In…Guilford Co Public Schools — $602,702 · OtherGuilford Co Publi…BLACK HILLS SPECIAL SERVICES COOPERATIVE — $300,225 · OtherBLACK HILLS SPECI…GREAT OAKS FOUNDATION — $276,357 · OtherGREAT OAKS FOUNDA…TRY ONCE INC — $251,475 · OtherTRY ONCE INCAMPLIFY — $250,000 · OtherAMPLIFYIGNITE READING PBC — $250,000 · OtherIGNITE READING PB…Trilogy Mentors Inc — $250,000 · OtherTrilogy Mentors I…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHO…AIR TUTORS LLC — $250,000 · OtherAIR TUTORS LLCARLINGTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — $138,600 · Other+5 more — $275,000 · Other+5 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,650,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $70,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $75,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 · Social ScienceTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAFF FOUNDATION — $50,000 · InternationalCOMMONWEALTH CENTER FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING — $40,000 · Science & Tech
Education$19,437,567Other$3,833,599Community Improvement$1,720,000Social Science$140,000Philanthropy$100,000Recreation & Sports$100,000International$50,000Science & Tech$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago — $8,651,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,650,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $1,372,592 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $805,669 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeans for Impact — $750,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $710,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — $700,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC — $577,026 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetZEARN — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $350,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION — $276,357 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetASSISTMENTS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMP MATH INC — $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLEMNIS — $190,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION — $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $66,280 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAFF FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CENTER FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE MONTANA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Institute for College Access & Success — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Accelerate - the Nati…Gates FoundationWalton Family Foundat…New Schools FundCarnegie Corporation …WK Kellogg FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Michael & Susan Dell …Lumina Foundation for…The San Francisco Fou…The William & Flora H…Tides Foundation
Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated LearningTN41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning · Gates Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Schools Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation

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 America Achieves Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Zearn — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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