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Friends of Education
The organization's mission is to improve the education of children.
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.
The 7 grants below total $134,871 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $144,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,999 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RON CLARK ACADEMY | $60,000 |
| EAGLE RIDGE ACADEMY | $19,175 |
| ST CROIX PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $16,500 |
| COLOGNE ACADEMY | $15,350 |
| NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $10,500 |
| SEVEN HILLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $6,846 |
| ASPEN ACADEMY | $6,500 |
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 71% 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 +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- EREAGLE RIDGE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +59%
- SCSt Croix Preparatory Academy9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +42%
- DADAVINCI ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE6× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- RCRON CLARK ACADEMY INCone grant, 2025 · $60k · revenue 0%
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.
We provide accelerated curricula in all subjects with an emphasis on math and science.
It is the mission of arcadia charter school to prepare our students to transition intellectually, emotionally, and ethically to higher education, future employment, and engaged citizenship.
The phoenix academy of art and science school program has been developed on research- backed foundational teaching and learning practices and with the intent of offering a curriculum that is more experiential and personally appealing to…
The mission of rivers edge academy is, in partnership with parents and community, to prepare urban high school students for their further education and career with rigorous academics, innovative projects and an interdisciplinary…
To ensure that all students graduate with the skills to achieve in college, to contribute positively to society, and to be accepting of all people.
The new millennium academy (nma) community prepares learners for life, engages them in high academic achievement, and fosters hmong cultural pride and identity.
North lakes academy provides a rigorous, liberal arts curriculum in a small, personalized, developmentally appropriate learning environment and graduate students who are confident, skilled scholars and citizens.
The mission of wla is to utilize leadership based programs and strategies grounded in solid research, combined with the demonstrated success of core knowledge curriculum as the basis of a rigorous overall educational program that builds…
Prodeo academy is a college preparatory school that prepares students to be critical thinkers and intelligent leaders, expanding their opportunities to contribute positively and productively to society.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
We are a student-centered learning community that inspires and supports all learners to achieve excellence through equitable, relevant learning experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Academy and the most unlike its peers is Ron Clark Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 EAGLE RIDGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds St Croix Preparatory Academy ↗
- Who funds DAVINCI ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Cologne Academy ↗
- Who funds SEVEN HILLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YINGHUA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds RON CLARK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PARNASSUS PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ACADEMY ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Friends of Education 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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