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Chiefs for Change
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE accelerates progress in public education by building leaders and systems' capacity to provide young people with 21st-century experiences that prepare them for success on a pathway to economic and social mobility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $978k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $183,330 |
| TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT-1 | $166,665 |
| HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $166,665 |
| PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $166,665 |
| POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1 | $166,665 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $52,928 |
| HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| SMITHSON CRAIGHEAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE PREP | $10,000 |
| STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your 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 +125% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools3× · 2018–2020 · $275k · revenue -80%- IPINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $228k · revenue +135%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- ECECTOR COUNTY ISDone grant, 2020 · $150k
- CCClarksville-Montgomery County Schoolsone grant, 2021 · $100k
- DPDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -64%
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.
The fund for public schools is dedicated to supporting new york city's public schools with private, philanthropic investment from foundations, individuals, businesses, and other charitable partners.
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.
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
We are the leading advocate for okcps. we strengthen our schools through community investment, strategic partnerships, and innovative programs.
Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.
To improve public education by identifying and supporting the most promising education ventures in the country, and creating a nationwide network of education entrepreneurs committed to closing the achievement gap.
Jpef activates community support, connects partners, and advances effective ideas for the success of allstudents.
Austin ed fund supports austin independent school district by developing and stewarding meaningful public and private partnerships that promote innovation and support opportunities that prepare austin isd students for college, career and…
To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY 180 ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REPUBLIC SCHOOLS NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REFLECT 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: Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · GenYOUTH Incorporated · NRA Foundation Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Feed the Children Inc · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods 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 Chiefs for Change 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
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.