· Public charity
Catalyst Education Inc
To mobilize and leverage the collective expertise in education to strengthen schools, school systems, and education nonprofits to ensure equity and excellence for all kids.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $234,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $243,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado Dept Of Education | $50,000 |
| OSSE District of Columbia | $50,000 |
| New Mexico Public Ed Dept | $46,000 |
| Parent Leadership Train Inst | $19,000 |
| Parent Power Lab Inc | $19,000 |
| Dreams KC | $15,500 |
| Hope Leadership Academy | $14,250 |
| Art as Mentorship | $7,000 |
| McEL United Inc | $6,750 |
| Heart of America Indian Ctr | $6,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HOHEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +31%
- AAART AS MENTORSHIP INC2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +28%
- MUMCEL UNITED INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- NMNew Mexico Public Ed Distone grant, 2022 · $26k
- UTURBAN TECHNOLOGY EMPOWERED COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +106%
- POPEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue -36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Kuumba Academy Mission is to provide an innovative learning environment focused on the whole child. Kuumba Academy directors, staff and parents share a core belief that parents are the primary educators and are in partnership with Kuumba…
Operation of a public charter school.
It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…
Education - Grades 6 through 12 Lincoln Leadership Academy Charter School (LLACS) is committed to providing a holistic learning community dedicated to the academic, emotional, social and spiritual success of each student.
To prepare middle school students to lead in academics service, and civic engagement during high school, college and beyond.
Leader in me is a whole-school transformation model and process developed in partnership with educators that empowers students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.
To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
To organize and operate a charter school in chicago, il and engage in other education activities permissable under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Capitol Region Education Councilfoundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE-KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds URBAN TECHNOLOGY EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Parent Power Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS SUCCEED ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ART AS MENTORSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MCEL UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO TECH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Distinctive Schools of Illinois ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL REGION EDUCATION COUNCILFOUNDATION INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · New Schools Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Catalyst Education Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.