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Elevate 215

Elevate 215 is a catalyst for preparing students for the world of tomorrow by modernizing the learning experience in philadelphia schools today.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$622k
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 2025.

Education$43MCommunity Improvement$625kEmployment$501kEnvironment$272kReligion$82kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Esperanza Academy Charter School$622,204
The Fund for the School District of PA$398,585
Philadelphia Charters for Excellence$383,800
Center for Black Educator Development$268,396
KIPP Octavius Catto Academy$175,000
Pan American Academy Charter School - V$153,500
Young Scholars Charter School$137,500
National Center for Grow Your Own$135,000
Children First PA CTE$100,000
Big Picture Philadelphia$100,000
MAST Community Charter School II$75,000
Alliance For Progress Charter School$71,121
Teach Plus$62,500
African American Charter School Coalition$50,000
Mastery Shoemaker$40,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Children First PA CTE: $100k → 22%Children First PA CTE: $100k → 22%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

MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 53 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
69

Total granted

$41M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+36%

Still filing today

96%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • KP
    KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +102%
  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +5%
  • TI
    TNTP INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.5M · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PHILADELPHIA HEBREW PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue +71%
  • MP
    MASTERY PREP ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $375k · revenue +71%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HFWA RECORDS
    one grant, 2024 · $130k
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
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
2
Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education
3
Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences At Hr Edmunds

To educate each child according to age and development so that learning and growth are united, integrate the developing mind and body of the child with academics and the performing arts to ensure each child's excellence in core and…

Education
4
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
5
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
6
Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education
7
Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter

A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.

Education
8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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9
Chester Charter Scholars Academy

Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.

Education
10
Franklin Towne Charter High School

Basic high school education for high school students.

Education
11
Philadelphia Electrical & Technology Cha

The mission of the philadelphia electrical and technology charter high school is to develop students who will be employable in the emeraging high-tech industries; while giving students a strong foundation in the core academic…

Education
12
21ST Century Cyber Charter School

Empower all students and families to become active participants in their own learning and equip them with skills for the future. we achieve this through engaging content, delvered by innovative teaching in a culture of caring.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Academy of Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Adaire. 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

106 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. 106 of the 127 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/106
Grantees still filing
84/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $4,203,846 · EducationKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOLMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,961,894 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $2,570,556 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSTNTP INC: $2,454,218 · EducationTNTP INCMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL II: $2,386,401 · EducationMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL IIMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL III: $1,575,000 · EducationDeep Roots Charter School: $1,535,550 · EducationINQUIRY SCHOOLS: $1,505,989 · EducationEsperanza Academy Charter School: $1,503,799 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,425,000 · Education+76 more: $12,353,046 · Education+76 moreSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,121,121 · OtherSCHOOL DISTR…FAITH IN THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $603,282 · OtherFAITH IN THE…STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $343,500 · OtherSTEPPINGSTON…The Center for Better Schools: $240,400 · OtherFINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION: $238,200 · OtherChildren First PA: $200,000 · OtherJOUNCE PARTNERS INC: $192,459 · Other+28 more: $821,176 · Other+28 morePHILADELPHIA CHARTERS FOR EXCELLENCE: $1,429,375 · ReligionPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $1,193,822 · Community ImprovementTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,188,354 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $1,110,470 · Arts & CultureNEW VENTURE FUND: $322,060 · EnvironmentKIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $219,000 · Environment
Education$34,475,299Other$4,760,138Religion$1,429,375Community Improvement$1,193,822Philanthropy$1,188,354Arts & Culture$1,110,470Environment$541,060

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $4,203,846 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,961,894 over 4y, 11% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $2,570,556 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTNTP INC: $2,454,218 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL II: $2,386,401 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetMAST COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL III: $1,575,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetDeep Roots Charter School: $1,535,550 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetINQUIRY SCHOOLS: $1,505,989 over 6y, 88% of budgetEsperanza Academy Charter School: $1,503,799 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHARTERS FOR EXCELLENCE: $1,429,375 over 5y, 88% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,425,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $1,193,822 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,188,354 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT: $1,110,470 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HEBREW PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,010,068 over 3y, 14% of budgetGLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $885,976 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PROGRESS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $846,624 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSKYROCKET EDUCATION: $738,360 over 3y, 70% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $713,284 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $603,282 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetRUSSELL BYERS CHARTER SCHOOL: $588,858 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPAN AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $560,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA: $530,453 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $394,700 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMASTERY PREP ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $375,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetIMPACT CHARTER SCHOOL WEST: $370,136 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $343,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $332,672 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $322,060 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIANA BRACETTI ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $309,513 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFOLK ARTS CULTURAL TREASURES CHARTER SCHOOL: $299,272 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Center for Better Schools: $240,400 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetFINISHING TRADES INSTITUTE OF THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION: $238,200 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFREIRE CHARTER SCHOOL: $233,465 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $219,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNational Center for Grow Your Own: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetChildren First PA: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJOUNCE PARTNERS INC: $192,459 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $182,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIMHOTEP INSTITUTE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $140,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPOLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA: $122,483 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAspira Inc of Pennsylvania: $120,816 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY CS SOUTHWEST A: $108,408 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWest Oak Lane Charter School: $100,680 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $97,322 over 4y, 0.3% 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.

Business Leadership O…The Neubauer Family F…The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationThe Patricia Kind Fam…Hamilton Family Chari…Future Standard Found…Hamilton Family Found…The Saramar Charitabl…The Barra Foundation …
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA44.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · Future Standard Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc

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 Elevate 215 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elevate 215. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 127 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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