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Project Renaissance

To develop and license teachers with diverse backgrounds and experiences for schools in Middle TN.

$613k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
10
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$437,500
States reached, FY2017
2
Total assets, FY2017
$2.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Relay Graduate School of Education$437,50011%
Instruction Partners$37,5001n/a
Intrepid College Preparatory School$28,00011%
Nashville Classical Charter School$18,00011%
STEM Preparatory Academy$18,00010%
Martha O'Bryan Center Inc$18,00010%
Purpose Preparatory Academy Inc$18,00010%
RePublic Schools Jackson Inc$18,00010%
Strive Collegiate Academy$10,00010%
New Vision Charter School$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Project Renaissance supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRelay Graduate School of Education: $437,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIntrepid College Preparatory School: $28,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNashville Classical Charter School: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEM Preparatory Academy: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMartha O'Bryan Center Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPurpose Preparatory Academy Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRePublic Schools Jackson Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStrive Collegiate Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Scarlett Family FoundationTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scarlett Family Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · Joe C Davis Foundation · City Fund · 50can Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Project Renaissance

How much does Project Renaissance give?
Project Renaissance reported 10 grants totaling $613,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Project Renaissance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Project Renaissance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Relay Graduate School of Education ($438k), Instruction Partners ($38k), Intrepid College Preparatory School ($28k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Project Renaissance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scarlett Family Foundation, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust.
Where is Project Renaissance based?
Project Renaissance is based in TN.

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 10 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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