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The College-Ready Promise

The organization's purpose is to increase college-ready graduation rates by increasing the number and distribution of highly effective teachers in schools and classrooms serving low-income and minority students.

$425k
Granted FY2018
5
Grants FY2018
4
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
3
Total assets, FY2018
$771k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations The College-Ready Promise funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20184$425k0%
FY20178$510kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$935k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Partnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace$290,00021%
Strive Preparatory Schools$146,53020%
Aspire Public Schools$120,00020%
Mastery Charter Schools Foundation$99,82511%
Green Dot Public Schools$93,00010%
Noble Network of Charter Schools$75,00020%
Denver School of Science and Technology Inc$60,22511%
Kipp Foundation$50,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The College-Ready Promise supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPartnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace: $290,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetStrive Preparatory Schools: $146,530 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAspire Public Schools: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMastery Charter Schools Foundation: $99,825 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGreen Dot Public Schools: $93,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoble Network of Charter Schools: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver School of Science and Technology Inc: $60,225 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKipp Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

The Broad CenterCharter Fund Inc D/B/…Project Lead the Way …Gates FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Broad CenterCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Broad Center · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Project Lead the Way Inc · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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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How do I get to The College-Ready Promise?

Find your warmest path to The College-Ready Promise through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The College-Ready Promise

How much does The College-Ready Promise give?
The College-Ready Promise reported 5 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The College-Ready Promise fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The College-Ready Promise's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Partnerships to Uplift Communities Lakeview Terrace ($290k), Strive Preparatory Schools ($147k), Aspire Public Schools ($120k).
Does The College-Ready Promise fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The College-Ready Promise?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Broad Center, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Project Lead the Way Inc.
Where is The College-Ready Promise based?
The College-Ready Promise 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 8 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 2018, released 2018. 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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