· Public charity
Kipp Foundation
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to succeed in college and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $39,987,265 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $41,856,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,869,315 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $627k
- $250k+24 grants · $39M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,138,908 |
| KIPP INDY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,638,726 |
| KIPP NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,476,942 |
| KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,350,619 |
| KIPP PUBLIC SCHOOLS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,719,394 |
| KIPP NASHVILLE | $2,500,662 |
| KIPP CAPITAL REGION PUBLIC SCHOOLS (FKA ALBANY) | $2,144,496 |
| KIPP WHOLE CHILD CENTER - KIPP DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,919,239 |
| KIPP COLUMBUS | $1,737,321 |
| KIPP MIAMI INC | $1,649,716 |
| KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,238,914 |
| KIPP PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,231,890 |
| KIPP NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $1,123,314 |
| KIPP JACKSONVILLE SCHOOLS | $1,108,304 |
| KIPP DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,086,067 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KNKIPP NEW YORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +254%
- KSKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +171%
- TATEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +129%
Funded once
- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -15%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +71%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Kipp academy's mission is to operate schools that will help students develop their academic and character skills they need to be successful in high school and college, to be self-sufficient in the competitive world beyond, and to build a…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose-college, career, and beyond-so they can lead fulfilling…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose - college, career, and beyond - so they can lead…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to succeed in college and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
Kipp nyc public charter school's mission is to operate charter schools that will help students develop their academic and character skills they need to be successful in high school and college, to be self-sufficient in the competitive…
To promote the financial well-being of kipp academy lynn public charter schools and kipp academy boston public charter schools (the schools) by soliciting, receiving and administering funds for construction, operation and maintenance of…
Providing business, facility, administrative, and development support to kipp schools in the philadelphia area and awarding of scholarship grants, including educational improvement grants as defined under pennsylvania law to public…
To promote the financial well-being of kipp academy boston public charter school and kipp massachusetts, inc. by soliciting, receiving and administering funds for construction, operation and maintenance of the school, and to support the…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Towns - the One World Network of Schools co Uka Ventures. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TEAM ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Kipp Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP WHOLE CHILD CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds KIPP Colorado Schools ↗
- Who funds KIPP CAPITAL REGION PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds KIPP OKC PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Minnesota ↗
- Who funds KIPP LYNN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DALLAS-FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds KIPP ENC PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP TULSA ACADEMY COLLEGE PREP INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DELTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP COOPER NORCROSS INC A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TOWNS - The One World Network of Schools co UKA Ventures ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Broad Center · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · 50can Inc · The Karsh Family Foundation · City Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kipp Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Team Academy Charter School Inc — 10% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kipp Jacksonville Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.