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Anna Julia Cooper School

The mission of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL is to love, educate, and uplift its students and graduates so that they may realize their god-given gifts.

$180k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$380kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,356 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,356 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$35,000
THE STEWARD SCHOOL$30,000
CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY$10,000
CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%THE STEWARD SCHOOL: $30k → 6%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $35k → 7%FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY: $10k → 8%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $35k → 9%CRISTO REY RICHMOND: $100k → 22%THE STEWARD SCHOOL: $23k → 6%TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $35k → 7%LEGACY ACADEMY: $20k → 9%THE STEWARD SCHOOL: $20k → 6%TRINITY EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 7%CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $22k → 7%CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $15k → 7%CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $10k → 7%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.
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 4 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$270k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+117%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +39%
  • TS
    THE STEWARD SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +28%
  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $47k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CR
    Cristo Rey Richmond High School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • PC
    PEOPLE CYCLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +117%
  • FU
    FORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $100,000 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond High School IncCARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $47,000 · EducationCARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMYCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $72,758 · OtherTHE STEWARD SCHOOLFORK UNION MILITARY ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherFORK UNION MILITARY ACA…PEOPLE CYCLE INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$297,000Other$82,758Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $135,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE STEWARD SCHOOL: $72,758 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN ACADEMY: $47,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPEOPLE CYCLE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 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.

The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Anna Julia Cooper School funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna Julia Cooper School. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 7 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $211k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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