· Public charity
Great Public Schools Now
The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $625k
- $50k–250k45 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCARE FOUNDATION | $676,934 |
| LA'S BEST | $597,324 |
| CITY OF LOS ANGELES - DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS | $592,372 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES | $411,388 |
| THE CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION | $300,000 |
| RAINBOW LABS | $295,066 |
| WOODCRAFT RANGERS | $270,182 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON | $262,300 |
| CITIZENS OF THE WORLD LOS ANGELES | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $238,800 |
| INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $220,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES | $211,272 |
| THINK TOGETHER | $210,595 |
| INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIPS | $207,025 |
| UNITED PARENTS & STUDENTS | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $3.4M) 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
93 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +171%
- EAEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +245%
- EIEDNOVATE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +370%
Funded once
- BBLUEPRINTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue +104%
- HLHIGHTECH LAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +122% · 33% of their budget
- BIBES INCone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -55%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
New los angeles charter school develops a diverse community of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community, and have respect for themselves and others.
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.
To cultivate a love of learning by fostering an environment that promotes self-discovery, independence, and an awareness of the connection between self and others.
Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…
High tech high's mission is to develop and support innovative public schools where all students develop the academic, workplace and citizenship skills for postsecondary success.
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
How this is measured
221 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.
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 CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDNOVATE INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PARENT REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds United Parents and Students ↗
- Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT ↗
- Who funds HIGHTECH LA ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR EDUCATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
- Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POWERFUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Great Public Schools Now funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Great Public Schools Now. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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