· Public charity
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
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLOSSAL COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| KIND ACADEMY CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| BLACK MOTHERS FORUM INC | $150,000 |
| THE LAB SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS INC | $150,000 |
| THE MEANING FOUNDATION (PRIMER MICROSCHOOLS) | $150,000 |
| ASU PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| ELLEMERCITO ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| SPARK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC | $100,000 |
| ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 411 | $100,000 |
| PAST FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ESCONDIDO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| LAMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| LINCON HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona ↗
- Who funds PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds PAST FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Getting Smart Collective funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Getting Smart Collective. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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