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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$183k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$500kPhilanthropy$297kCommunity Improvement$150kRecreation & Sports$30k
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $978k
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$183,330
PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$166,665
HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$166,665
POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1$166,665
TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT-1$166,665
FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$75,000
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$52,928
HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS$30,000
STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY$10,000
SMITHSON CRAIGHEAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
NASHVILLE PREP$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $167k → 11%CITY YEAR: $100k → 16%THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $183k → 10%STOCKTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50k → 12%MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $100k → 16%ECTOR COUNTY: $150k → 16%ALDINE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $100k → 16%TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT-1: $167k → 15%DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 14%THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BREVARD COUNTY FLORIDA: $34k → 10%EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH: $50k → 11%ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $91k → 13%THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA: $98k → 13%CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $100k → 11%SMITHSON CRAIGHEAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10k → 14%GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $125k → 16%CITY OF PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50k → 14%HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $30k → 8%POUDRE SCHOOL DISTRICT R-1: $167k → 11%COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $50k → 12%INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75k → 16%OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $22k → 15%HIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $167k → 9%MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $30k → 23%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $130k → 4%OPPORTUNITY 180: $50k → 13%FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $50k → 19%FOUNDATION FOR TULSA SCHOOLS: $100k → 15%NEW VENTURE FUND: $42k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75k → 13%STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $25k → 14%INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $53k → 16%OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $15k → 15%STUDENTS TO SCIENCE: $50k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR TULSA SCHOOLS: $50k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50k → 13%NASHVILLE PREP: $10k → 14%INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $175k → 16%STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
NV
IN
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 5 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +68% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

$700k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+68%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Schools
    3× · 2018–2020 · $275k · revenue -80%
  • IP
    INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $228k · revenue +135%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $125k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • EC
    ECTOR COUNTY ISD
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • DP
    DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -64%
  • CC
    Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Fund for Public Schools Inc

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.

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2
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
3
The Philadelphia Education Fund

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…

Youth Development
4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
5
Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation Inc

We are the leading advocate for okcps. we strengthen our schools through community investment, strategic partnerships, and innovative programs.

Education
6
North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.

Education
7
New Schools Fund

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.

Education
8
Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc

Jpef activates community support, connects partners, and advances effective ideas for the success of allstudents.

Education
9
Austin Public Education Foundation

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…

Education
10
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation

To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.

Education
11
Equal Opportunity 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…

Education
12
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Public Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMPASS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL: $166,665 · OtherCOMPASS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE SCHOOLPHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $166,665 · OtherPHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTTULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $166,665 · OtherTULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLSECTOR COUNTY ISD: $150,000 · OtherECTOR COUNTY ISDFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCClarksville-Montgomery County Schools: $100,000 · OtherClarksville-Montgomery County SchoolsCITY YEAR INC: $100,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCAldine Independent School District: $100,000 · OtherAldine Independent School DistrictTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY: $98,400 · OtherTHE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTYOrange County Public Schools: $91,253 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 · Other+12 more: $483,000 · Other+12 moreThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $275,000 · EducationThe Foundation for Tulsa SchoolsINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $227,928 · EducationINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUC…THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $183,330 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUN…DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE …OPPORTUNITY 180: $50,000 · EducationOPPORTUNITY 180+3 more: $45,000 · EducationHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $166,665 · PhilanthropyHIGHLINE SCHO…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $130,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $99,734 · PhilanthropySan Antonio F…STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC: $50,000 · Science & TechNEW VENTURE FUND: $41,500 · Environment
Other$1,822,648Education$931,258Philanthropy$396,399Science & Tech$50,000Environment$41,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Foundation for Tulsa Schools: $275,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $227,928 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $183,330 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHLINE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE: $166,665 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $130,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $99,734 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY 180: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT REFLECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPUBLIC SCHOOLS NASHVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Round It Up America I…For Inspiration and R…GenYOUTH IncorporatedNRA Foundation IncProject Lead the Way …Share Our StrengthRockefeller Philanthr…Feed the Children IncThe Mr Holland's Opus…Project Lead the Way …Good Sports IncDick's Sporting Goods…
Round It Up America IncCA25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chiefs for Change funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chiefs for Change. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 37 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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where grant money is based, and what stays home