· Public charity
Breakfree Education
Our mission is to radically improve education in the juvenile and criminal justice systems by investing in the potential and dignity of all its students.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS FOR JUSTICE | $125,000 |
| VISITORS SERVICE CENTER INC | $28,333 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD | $16,667 |
| SEE FOREVER FOUNDATION | $16,666 |
| DC JUSTICE LAB | $8,333 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VSVISITORS SERVICE CENTER INC VOICES FOR A SECOND CHANCE2× · 2024–2025 · $38k · revenue 0%
- CFCOUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +51%
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE SO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue -75%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -21%
- SLSECOND LOOK PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
- DODREAMING OUT LOUDone grant, 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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VISITORS SERVICE CENTER INC VOICES FOR A SECOND CHANCE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR COURT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE SO INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds SEE FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND LOOK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DC JUSTICE LAB ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Breakfree Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Breakfree Education. Bigger dots raise more.
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