· Public charity
Communities in Schools
Surround students with a community of support and empower them to stay in school and achieve in life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k6 grants · $852k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $1,745,136 |
| PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $611,839 |
| LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $376,428 |
| SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $331,164 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $281,875 |
| PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $257,044 |
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $236,840 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $191,910 |
| NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $158,418 |
| GROWING TOGETHER | $123,734 |
| NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION | $71,119 |
| SUPPORTERS OF TEXAS STUDENTS SUCCESS | $70,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY4× · 2018–2021 · $803k · revenue +90%
- LTLEARN TO EARN DAYTON4× · 2018–2021 · $776k · revenue +287%
- SIStriveTogether Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $535k · revenue +735%
Funded once
- BOBOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST FUNDone grant, 2023 · $109k · revenue +22%
- AAAmerican Association of School Administrators Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +59%
- NTNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +5%
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 mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…
Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
See schedule o, page 45.founded in 1956 and incorporated in 1961, the purpose of the council of the great city schools (the council) is to represent the needs, challenges, and successes of major-city public school districts and their…
We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
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.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Board of Education of Montgomery County Employee Benefit Trust Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds StriveTogether Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTERS OF TEXAS STUDENTS SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds SEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds GROWING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds American Association of School Administrators Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA MCADOO SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FCOE 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: Gates Foundation · Share Our Strength · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Wallace Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Save the Music Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · World Vision Inc · Strider Education Foundation Inc · Digital Promise Global
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 Communities in Schools 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Growing Together Inc — 9% 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.