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Breakthrough Charter Schools

The breakthrough public schools mission is to provide cleveland area scholars with an education that empowers them to lead lives full of impact and opportunity.

$2.0M
Granted FY2018
8
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$634k
Largest
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 FY20172018.

Education$4.0M
02FY2018 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $903k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$180,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITIZENS ACADEMY$633,854
VILLAGE PREP SCH WOODLAND HTS$450,699
VILLAGE PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL$235,369
LAKESHORE INTERGENERATIONAL SCHOOL$180,625
CITIZENS ACADEMY EAST$138,266
CITIZENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$138,159
E PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL$130,568
E PREP SCHOOL WH$79,779
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CITIZENS ACADEMY SOUTHEAST: $201k → 17%VILLAGE PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL: $276k → 17%VILLAGE PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL: $235k → 17%E PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL: $153k → 17%E PREP CLIFFS SCHOOL: $131k → 17%FRIENDS OF BCS: $89k → 17%LAKESHORE INTERGENERATIONAL SCHOOL: $181k → 17%LAKESHORE INTERGENERATIONAL SCHOOL: $7k → 17%VILLAGE PREP SCH WOODLAND HTS: $465k → 17%CITIZENS ACADEMY: $634k → 17%VILLAGE PREP SCH WOODLAND HTS: $451k → 17%CITIZENS ACADEMY EAST: $270k → 17%E PREP SCHOOL WH: $118k → 17%CITIZENS ACADEMY: $192k → 17%E PREP SCHOOL WH: $80k → 17%CITIZENS ACADEMY EAST: $138k → 17%CITIZENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $220k → 17%CITIZENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $138k → 17%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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 8 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$3.9M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-53%

Still filing today

38%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • VP
    Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills
    2× · 2017–2018 · $916k · revenue +97%
  • CA
    Citizens Academy
    2× · 2017–2018 · $826k · revenue +7%
  • VP
    Village Preparatory School
    2× · 2017–2018 · $511k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $89k · revenue -53%

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
Citizens Leadership Academy East

To prepare middle school students to lead in academics service, and civic engagement during high school, college and beyond.

Education
2
Citizens Academy Southeast

The mission of Citizens Academy Southeast is to produce learners who exemplify academic excellence and responsible citizenship.

Education
3
Village Preparatory School Iii

The School's mission is to seek to provide a high quality, academically rigorous education for the college bound scholars. The School empowers their scholars to think critically, assume social responsibility and serve as advocates for…

Education
4
Breakthrough Public Schools

The breakthrough public schools mission is to provide cleveland area scholars with an education that empowers them to lead lives full of impact and opportunity.

Education
5
Golden Bridge Academy

Primary Education

6
Cleveland College Preparatory School

Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation from a four year college

Education
7
Burhan Academy

Burhan Academy provides high-quality, full-time education for Pre-K to 12th grade students, focusing on strong academics, character development, and personal growth. The school is dedicated to creating a supportive learning environment…

Education
8
University of Cleveland Preparatory School

Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.

Education
9
Bradford Preparatory School

Bradford is a college preparatory school committed to academic excellence, nurturing personal relationships, and inspiring a growing passion for creativity and learning in all of our students.

Education
10
Bridges Community Academy

The Mission of Bridges Preparatory Academy is to create lifelong learners through high-quality primary education and social skills.

11
Charlotte Preparatory School Inc

Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.

Education
12
Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Academy and the most unlike its peers is Lakeshore Intergenerational School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills — $915,896 · EducationVillage Preparatory School Woodland HillsVillage Preparatory School — $510,945 · EducationVillage Preparatory SchoolCitizens Leadership Academy — $357,672 · EducationCitizens Leadership AcademyLakeshore Intergenerational School — $187,612 · EducationLakeshore Intergenerational SchoolFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $88,579 · EducationCitizens Academy — $826,275 · OtherCitizens AcademyCitizens Academy East — $609,036 · OtherCitizens Academy EastCleveland Entrepreneurship Prep — $283,125 · OtherCleveland Entrepreneurship PrepE PREP WOODLAND HILLS — $197,737 · OtherE PREP WOODLAND HILLS
Education$2,060,704Other$1,916,173

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVillage Preparatory School Woodland Hills — $915,896 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCitizens Academy — $826,275 over 2y, 13% of budgetCitizens Academy East — $609,036 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetVillage Preparatory School — $510,945 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCitizens Leadership Academy — $357,672 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCleveland Entrepreneurship Prep — $283,125 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLakeshore Intergenerational School — $187,612 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS — $88,579 over 1y, 0.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Friends of Breakthrough SchoolsOH22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Friends of Breakthrough Schools

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 Breakthrough Charter Schools 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    3report 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, FY2025

    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 9 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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