· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE PREP WILLARD | $1,272,424 |
| CITIZENS ACADEMY SOUTHEAST | $766,566 |
| BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| VILLAGE PREP WOODLAND HILLS | $19,136 |
| VILLAGE PREP CLIFFS | $17,192 |
| CITIZENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY EAST | $14,682 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +97% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BPBREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS6× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +19%
- VPVillage Preparatory School III7× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +151%
- CACitizens Academy Southeast7× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +284%
Funded once
- LILakeshore Intergenerational Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $354k · revenue +27%
- TIThe Intergenerational Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $231k · revenue +69%
- NWNear West Intergenerational Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue +85%
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.
Burhan Academy provides high-quality, full-time education for Pre-K to 12th grade students, focusing on strong academics, character development, and personal growth. The school is dedicated to creating a supportive learning environment…
Primary Education
Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation from a four year college
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Our mission is to prepare students for a college preparatory high school that will ensure success and graduation and acceptance into a four year college.
To provide an innovative and effective educational experience for students from Pre-K to 8th grade
Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…
The Mission of Bridges Preparatory Academy is to create lifelong learners through high-quality primary education and social skills.
Bradford is a college preparatory school committed to academic excellence, nurturing personal relationships, and inspiring a growing passion for creativity and learning in all of our students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens Academy and the most unlike its peers is The Intergenerational School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 BREAKTHROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Village Preparatory School III ↗
- Who funds Citizens Academy Southeast ↗
- Who funds Citizens Academy East ↗
- Who funds Citizens Leadership Academy East ↗
- Who funds Citizens Leadership Academy ↗
- Who funds Citizens Academy ↗
- Who funds Village Preparatory School ↗
- Who funds Village Preparatory School Woodland Hills ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep ↗
- Who funds Lakeshore Intergenerational School ↗
- Who funds The Intergenerational School ↗
- Who funds Near West Intergenerational School ↗
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.
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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 Friends of Breakthrough 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.
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.