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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$478k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meaning Foundation$150,00019%
The Lab School of Memphis Inc$150,000145%
Asu Preparatory Academy Inc$150,00010%
Hollow Reed Inc$150,0001100%
Black Mothers Forum Inc$150,000112%
Kind Academy Corporation$150,000155%
Issaquah School District$100,0001n/a
Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona$100,00010%
Purdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc$100,00011%
Past Foundation$100,00012%
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All grantees of Getting Smart Collective by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meaning Foundation$150,00019%
The Lab School of Memphis Inc$150,000145%
Asu Preparatory Academy Inc$150,00010%
Hollow Reed Inc$150,0001100%
Black Mothers Forum Inc$150,000112%
Kind Academy Corporation$150,000155%
Issaquah School District$100,0001n/a
Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona$100,00010%
Purdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc$100,00011%
Past Foundation$100,00012%
Ellemercito Academy$100,0001n/a
Escondido Union School District$40,0001n/a
Lincoln Hornets Alumni Association$25,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Getting Smart Collective supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMeaning Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetThe Lab School of Memphis Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetAsu Preparatory Academy Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHollow Reed Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetBlack Mothers Forum Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKind Academy Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetGoodwill of Central and Northern Arizona: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Polytechnic High School of Indianapolis Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPast Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Center for Education ReformDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Getting Smart Collective?

Find your warmest path to Getting Smart Collective through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Getting Smart Collective

How much does Getting Smart Collective give?
Getting Smart Collective reported 14 grants totaling $1,505,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Getting Smart Collective fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (83%), Human Services (10%), Employment (7%).
Who are Getting Smart Collective's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Meaning Foundation ($150k), The Lab School of Memphis Inc ($150k), Asu Preparatory Academy Inc ($150k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Getting Smart Collective?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Center for Education Reform, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Getting Smart Collective based?
Getting Smart Collective is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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