· Public charity
Honest Game Foundation
Honest Game Foundations mission is to level the playing filed so that every student has a fair and equitable opportunity to attend college.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 | $150,000 |
| San Antonio Independent School Dist | $33,000 |
| Fresno Unified School District | $20,000 |
| Klein Independent School Dist | $20,000 |
| Central Unified School District | $10,000 |
| Madera Unified School District | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of its 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.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHICAGO CONNECTED3× · 2023–2025 · $450k
- KIKLEIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $59k · revenue -7%
- CMCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS2× · 2023–2024 · $37k
Funded once
- MPMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FWFORT WORTH ISDone grant, 2024 · $22k
- NSNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 16 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.
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: Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Reading Is Fundamental Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Honest Game Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honest Game Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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