· Public charity
Excellent Schools Washington
Our mission is to accelerate the growth and sustainability of high-quality schools in the state of washington that foster equitable access and innovation for families and students who have been systemically underserved.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $1,412,939 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,475,613 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,674 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $363k
- $250k+3 grants · $947k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOLOPS LLC | $435,800 |
| ALWAYS BE LEARNING INC | $261,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $250,000 |
| MARIPOSA CONSULTING GROUP LLC | $128,200 |
| LDOR STRATEGY LLC | $75,000 |
| HMH EDUCATION COMPANY | $55,325 |
| AFTON PARTNERS LLC | $54,748 |
| CATALYST CONNECTIONS LLC | $50,000 |
| WA CHARTERS | $20,092 |
| SIMPLICITY EDUCATION LLC | $18,349 |
| KLG & ASSOCIATES LLC | $15,075 |
| AMH STRATEGIES LLC | $15,000 |
| JOULE GROWTH PARTNERS INC | $12,500 |
| EDUCATION DATA COLLECTIVE LLC | $12,050 |
| 7GEN LEGACY GROUP | $9,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $869k went to new ones.
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
- SLSCHOOLOPS LLC2× · 2024–2025 · $901k
- LSLDOR STRATEGY LLC2× · 2024–2025 · $135k
- KAKLG & ASSOCIATES LLC2× · 2024–2025 · $53k
Funded once
- IPImpact Public Schoolsone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- TLTURNERDEV LLCone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SISpokane International Academyone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 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. 6 of the 23 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.
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: Washington State Charter Schools Association · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Gates Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Excellent Schools Washington 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.
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.
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