· Public charity
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
The charter school growth fund identifies the country's best public charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $988k
- $50k–250k108 grants · $15M
- $250k+155 grants · $128M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $8,606,615 |
| COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND | $7,000,000 |
| TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT INC | $5,000,000 |
| MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC | $3,360,000 |
| HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000,000 |
| DOVE SCHOOLS INC | $2,185,000 |
| VALOR TEXAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,100,000 |
| DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,036,000 |
| MURMURATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC | $2,000,000 |
| THE GREAT HEARTS FOUNDATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| WALLACE STEGNER ACADEMY | $1,800,000 |
| ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEXAS | $1,750,000 |
| YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $1,750,000 |
| CAMBIAR EDUCATION | $1,650,000 |
| THE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,557,358 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +104% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
299 repeat relationships: 173 still active in FY2024, 126 since wound down; 54 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IPIDEA Public Schools7× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +257%
- KTKIPP Texas Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $16M · revenue +50%
- BTBLUEPRINT TEXAS3× · 2022–2024 · $14M · revenue ×109 · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCITY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +6%
- GAGREATHEARTS ARIZONAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +58%
- GCGEORGIA CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -18% · 55% of their budget
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.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…
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.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
To fulfill every student's individual potential by personalizing an educational plan that focuses on school and family partnership to achieve optimal student performance.
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…
Through rigorous academic instruction, values-based character development, and the pursuit of ambitious goals, legacy college preparatory charter school ensures all students in grades six through twelve are prepared to graduate from…
How this is measured
431 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 431 of the 473 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THIRD FUTURE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The Hughen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDNOVATE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC ↗
- Who funds DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING RESPONSIBLE INTELLIGENT CREATIVE KIDS ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NAVIGATOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New Paradigm for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT SCHOOLS OF EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds CORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds DOVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES COLLEGE-BOUND LANGUAGE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
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: New Schools Fund · City Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · 50can Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · The Broad Center · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Great Public Schools Now · The Center for Education Reform · Gates Foundation · Education Forward DC
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc: 51% of income from government
- YouthBuild Newark Inc: 27% of income from government
- Great Oaks Charter School: 9% of income from government
- True North Classical Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
- Dove Schools Inc: 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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