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Ascend Learning Inc

To develop a scalable solution to the underachievement of economically disadvantaged children by providing a network of urban college preparatory charter schools, operating with widely available resources, and achieving academic levels equal or superior to suburban schools educating students from middle-class families.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,448,362
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,448,362
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Ascend Learning Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’23
RenewedFirst-time
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$1.4M100%
FY20231$3.5M0%
FY20211$1.3M0%
FY20181$50k0%
FY20171$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$6.4M

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
Ascend Charter Schools$4,946,26342%
Ascend Learning Inc$1,448,36217%

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About Ascend Learning Inc

How much does Ascend Learning Inc give?
Ascend Learning Inc reported 1 grants totaling $1,448,362 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ascend Learning Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Ascend Learning Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ascend Charter Schools ($4.9M), Ascend Learning Inc ($1.4M).
Does Ascend Learning Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Ascend Learning Inc based?
Ascend Learning Inc is based in NY.

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 2 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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