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Kipp Philadelphia Charter School

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 lives and build a more just world.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$711k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$3.3MEnvironment$2.3MFood & Nutrition$69kHealth$33kHuman Services$25k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$465,759
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL$710,956
KIPP WEST PHILADELPHIA ELEMENTARY ACADEMY$465,759
KIPP PHILADELPHIA OCTAVIUS CATTO CHARTER SCHOOL$307,968
KIPP DUBOIS CHARTER SCHOOL$252,535
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%POTENTIAL INC SPRINGTIME SCHOOL: $25k → 6%MARTIN LUTHER SCHOOL: $17k → 7%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 7 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$5.5M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+101%

Still filing today

86%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • KN
    KIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +124%
  • KW
    KIPP WEST PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +43%
  • KP
    KIPP PHILADELPHIA OCTAVIUS CATTO CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $807k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • KD
    KIPP DUBOIS CHARTER ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $69k
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS
    one grant, 2018 · $62k
  • PI
    POTENTIAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +138%
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

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.

1
Kipp Philadelphia Charter School

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…

Education
2
Mastery Charter School - Pickett Campus

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
Mastery Prep Elementary Charter School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
4
Mastery Charter School - Mann Elementary

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
5
Mastery Charter School - Thomas Campus

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for post-secondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
6
Frederick Douglass Mastery Charter School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
7
Mastery Charter School - Gratz Campus

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
8
Mastery Charter School - Smedley Elementary

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Mastery Charter School John Wister Campus

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for post-secondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

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10
Kipp Administrative Services Corporation

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…

Education
11
Mastery Charter School Pastorius - Richardson Elementary

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for post-secondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

—
12
Grover Cleveland-Mastery Charter School Elementary

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for post-secondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp North Philadelphia Charter School; the most unlike its peers is Potential Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP WEST PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,528,117 · EducationKIPP WEST PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOLKIPP PHILADELPHIA OCTAVIUS CATTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $806,594 · EducationKIPP PHILADELPHIA OCTAVIUS CATTO CHARTER SCHOOLKIPP DUBOIS CHARTER SCHOOL: $641,701 · EducationKIPP DUBOIS CHARTER SCHOOL+2 more: $30,187 · EducationKIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $2,263,593 · EnvironmentKIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOLSPECIALIZED EDUCATION SERVICES: $175,802 · OtherKIPP DUBOIS CHARTER ACADEMY: $69,227 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS: $61,764 · OtherTHE CAMELOT SCHOOLS OF PA LLC: $12,806 · Other+1 more: $8,315 · OtherPOTENTIAL INC: $24,886 · Human ServicesGemma Services: $16,711 · Human ServicesThe Devereux Foundation: $32,569 · Health
Education$3,006,599Environment$2,263,593Other$327,914Human Services$41,597Health$32,569

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIPP NORTH PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $2,263,593 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetKIPP WEST PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,528,117 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetKIPP PHILADELPHIA OCTAVIUS CATTO CHARTER SCHOOL: $806,594 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetKIPP DUBOIS CHARTER SCHOOL: $641,701 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Devereux Foundation: $32,569 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHMC Integrated: $24,987 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOTENTIAL INC: $24,886 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGemma Services: $16,711 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUTTONWOOD FARMS INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Kipp Philadelphia Charter School funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kipp Philadelphia Charter School. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 14 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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