New York · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $250k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 90% of the organizations America Achieves Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $250k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $6.9M | 90% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $13M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $800k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $554k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $429k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $791k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $8,651,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Education Foundation Inc | $1,400,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $1,372,592 | 4 | 0% |
| Deans for Impact | $750,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Amira Learning Inc | $739,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Commit2dallas | $710,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education | $700,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Guilford Co Public Schools | $602,702 | 1 | n/a |
| Scholarmatch Inc | $577,026 | 5 | 8% |
| Cambiar Education | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $8,651,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Education Foundation Inc | $1,400,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $1,372,592 | 4 | 0% |
| Deans for Impact | $750,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Amira Learning Inc | $739,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Commit2dallas | $710,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education | $700,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Guilford Co Public Schools | $602,702 | 1 | n/a |
| Scholarmatch Inc | $577,026 | 5 | 8% |
| Cambiar Education | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Teach for America Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saga Innovations Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Zearn | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Schools for New Orleans Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Oakland REACH | $350,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Black Hills Special Services Cooperative | $300,225 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Oaks Foundation | $276,357 | 1 | 8% |
| Try Once Inc | $251,475 | 1 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jump Math Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 100% |
| University of Rhode Island | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ignite Reading Pbc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reading Partners | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Assistments Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Amplify | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Air Tutors LLC | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trilogy Mentors Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Lemnis | $190,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arlington Independent School District | $138,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Gec USA LLC | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Backfield in Motion | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| The Brookings Institution | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Visions for Public Schools Inc | $66,280 | 1 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unleashing the Power of Partnership for Learning Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Aff Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Uva School of Education and Human Development Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Accelerate Montana | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Institute for College Access & Success | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Carolina a & T State University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
America Achieves Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About America Achieves Inc
- How much does America Achieves Inc give?
- America Achieves Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $250,000, out of $372,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does America Achieves Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (92%), Employment (3%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are America Achieves Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($8.7M), Southern Education Foundation Inc ($1.4M), Scholarship America Inc ($1.4M).
- Does America Achieves Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as America Achieves Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Accelerate - the National Collaborative for Accelerated Learning, Gates Foundation, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is America Achieves Inc based?
- America Achieves Inc is based in NY.
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