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Getting Smart Collective
GETTING SMART COLLECTIVE actively builds the future of learning by designing, accelerating and amplifying equitable innovations that empower all people to thrive and lead in a complex world.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOTHERS FORUM INC | $150,000 |
| THE MEANING FOUNDATION (PRIMER MICROSCHOOLS) | $150,000 |
| ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| KIND ACADEMY CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| COLOSSAL COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| THE LAB SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS INC | $150,000 |
| ELLEMERCITO ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC | $100,000 |
| ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 411 | $100,000 |
| PAST FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SPARK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| LAMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| ESCONDIDO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| LINCON HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asu Preparatory Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Past Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 Meaning Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Lab School of Memphis Inc ↗
- Who funds ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLOW REED INC ↗
- Who funds Black Mothers Forum Inc ↗
- Who funds KIND ACADEMY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona ↗
- Who funds PAST FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Center for Education Reform · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Getting Smart Collective 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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