Ohio · Public charity
Friends of Breakthrough Schools
Our mission is to perform fundraising and advocacy activities that exclusively support the opertions and growth of the breakthrough public schools management organization and all its member schools.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,272,424
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $107M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Friends of Breakthrough Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $258k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $382k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $5.8M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $4.4M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Public Schools | $4,632,243 | 6 | 23% |
| Village Preparatory School III | $3,436,829 | 7 | 15% |
| Citizens Academy Southeast | $2,466,106 | 7 | 13% |
| Citizens Academy East | $1,532,648 | 5 | 13% |
| Citizens Leadership Academy East | $1,324,964 | 6 | 42% |
| Citizens Leadership Academy | $1,295,981 | 5 | 20% |
| Citizens Academy | $1,123,151 | 5 | 11% |
| Village Preparatory School | $976,098 | 7 | 9% |
| Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills | $923,246 | 7 | 6% |
| Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep | $596,560 | 3 | 10% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough Public Schools | $4,632,243 | 6 | 23% |
| Village Preparatory School III | $3,436,829 | 7 | 15% |
| Citizens Academy Southeast | $2,466,106 | 7 | 13% |
| Citizens Academy East | $1,532,648 | 5 | 13% |
| Citizens Leadership Academy East | $1,324,964 | 6 | 42% |
| Citizens Leadership Academy | $1,295,981 | 5 | 20% |
| Citizens Academy | $1,123,151 | 5 | 11% |
| Village Preparatory School | $976,098 | 7 | 9% |
| Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills | $923,246 | 7 | 6% |
| Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep | $596,560 | 3 | 10% |
| E Prep Woodland Hills | $443,983 | 3 | n/a |
| Lakeshore Intergenerational School | $354,222 | 1 | 17% |
| The Intergenerational School | $231,269 | 1 | 8% |
| Near West Intergenerational School | $41,740 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friends of Breakthrough Schools supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Friends of Breakthrough Schools
- How much does Friends of Breakthrough Schools give?
- Friends of Breakthrough Schools reported 6 grants totaling $2,190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Friends of Breakthrough Schools fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Friends of Breakthrough Schools's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Breakthrough Public Schools ($4.6M), Village Preparatory School III ($3.4M), Citizens Academy Southeast ($2.5M).
- Does Friends of Breakthrough Schools fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends of Breakthrough Schools?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Breakthrough Public Schools, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Friends of Breakthrough Schools based?
- Friends of Breakthrough Schools is based in OH.
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