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Choice2020

The specific purpose of this organization is to research, collect, aggregate and disseminate critical insights into the workings of the california educational system and the improvements that school choice would confer upon it. CHOICE2020 seeks to create poignant and informative content that educates californians on the benefits of…

$635k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
60%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$78k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 60% of the organizations Choice2020 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20205$627k60%
FY20193$515kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Religion$1.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vineyard Outreach America$1,000,0002n/a
Mariners Church$97,3061n/a
Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks$20,0002n/a
The Grove Community Church$10,0001n/a
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills$10,0001n/a
Serving Christ Personally Inc$5,0001n/a

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Choice2020

How much does Choice2020 give?
Choice2020 reported 5 grants totaling $634,806 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Choice2020 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (100%).
Who are Choice2020's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Vineyard Outreach America ($1.0M), Mariners Church ($97k), Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks ($20k).
Does Choice2020 fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Choice2020?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Choice2020 based?
Choice2020 is based in CA.

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 6 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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