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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
8
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$180,625
Largest grant, FY2018
$633,854
Organizations funded a year
8 to 9
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Breakthrough Charter Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20188$2.0M0%
FY20179$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$4.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills$915,89629%
Citizens Academy$826,275213%
Citizens Academy East$609,036210%
Village Preparatory School$510,94525%
Citizens Leadership Academy$357,67227%
Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep$283,12524%
E Prep Woodland Hills$197,7372n/a
Lakeshore Intergenerational School$187,61227%
Friends of Breakthrough Schools$88,57911%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Breakthrough Charter Schools supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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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.

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About Breakthrough Charter Schools

How much does Breakthrough Charter Schools give?
Breakthrough Charter Schools reported 8 grants totaling $1,987,319 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Breakthrough Charter Schools fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Breakthrough Charter Schools's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills ($916k), Citizens Academy ($826k), Citizens Academy East ($609k).
Does Breakthrough Charter Schools fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Breakthrough Charter Schools?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Friends of Breakthrough Schools.
Where is Breakthrough Charter Schools based?
Breakthrough Charter Schools is based in OH.

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 9 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 2018, released 2018. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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