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Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$563k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MCommunity Improvement$64kArts & Culture$47kHuman Services$20k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $433k
$39,476
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL$139,624
LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY$135,000
ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$94,599
CENTRO METROPOLITANO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITARIOS$63,544
SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO$39,476
SOAR ACADEMY$30,000
WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$21,000
INVESTING IN KIDSINK$20,000
AMANI WOMEN CENTER$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $140k → 7%HOUSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $59k → 8%WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $21k → 8%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $95k → 9%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $52k → 14%INVESTING IN KIDSINK: $20k → 6%WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE IMMERSION INSTITUTE: $69k → 15%SOAR ACADEMY: $33k → 7%AMANI WOMEN CENTER: $20k → 14%LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY: $135k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $60k → 7%HOUSTON HIGH SCHOOL: $29k → 8%WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $19k → 8%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $59k → 9%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $32k → 14%INVESTING IN KIDSINK: $20k → 6%AKII CHARTER SCHOOL: $30k → 15%SOAR ACADEMY: $30k → 7%LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY: $127k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $60k → 7%WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $11k → 8%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $51k → 9%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $31k → 14%WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE IMMERSION INSTITUTE: $22k → 15%SOAR ACADEMY: $25k → 7%LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY: $36k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $32k → 7%WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $49k → 9%POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%WAADOOKODAADING OJIBWE LANGUAGE IMMERSION INSTITUTE: $17k → 15%LITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY: $30k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30k → 7%WABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $9k → 8%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $49k → 9%ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $29k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $92k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30k → 7%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $48k → 9%POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $17k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $90k → 14%HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $29k → 7%ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $40k → 9%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $90k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $89k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $85k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $39k → 14%SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $19k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 12 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$2.4M
$196k

Still filing today

25%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $505k
  • RC
    ROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $391k
  • HM
    HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $380k

Funded once

  • UA
    UNIVERSIDAD ANA G MENDEZ
    one grant, 2020 · $77k
  • HE
    HOUSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $59k
  • AC
    AKII CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $504,517 · OtherSAN MIGUEL SCHOOL OF CHICAGOROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $390,773 · OtherROCHESTER CATHOLIC SCHOOLSHUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $379,943 · OtherHUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOLLITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMY: $327,397 · OtherLITTLE VILLAGE ACADEMYORTIZ LORD HOPE ASSOCIATES: $187,093 · OtherORTIZ LORD HOPE ASSOCIATESIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherWABASHA-KELLOGG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $82,027 · OtherUNIVERSIDAD ANA G MENDEZ: $76,845 · Other+6 more: $228,368 · Other+6 moreST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $150,509 · EducationST MARYS UN…SOAR ACADEMY AUGUSTA INC: $88,266 · EducationSOAR ACADEM…AMANI WOMEN CENTER INC: $20,000 · EducationAMANI WOMEN…CENTRO METROPOLITANO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITARIOS INC: $63,544 · Community ImprovementPOLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $47,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,261,963Education$258,775Community Improvement$63,544Arts & Culture$47,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $150,509 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOAR ACADEMY AUGUSTA INC: $88,266 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRO METROPOLITANO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITARIOS INC: $63,544 over 1y, 84% of budgetPOLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $47,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetAMANI WOMEN CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
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 ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SOAR ACADEMY AUGUSTA INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO METROPOLITANO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITARIOS INC ↗
  • Who funds POLISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMANI WOMEN CENTER INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation Inc 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.

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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