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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

The NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS is the leading national nonprofit organization committed for advancing the charter school movement.

$690k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$104kCivil Rights$85kHuman Services$23kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$540k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $496,008 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $690,360 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,352 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $346k
$24,307
Median grant
12
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPTOE & JOHNSON$119,304
GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR IOWA$100,000
LANDMARK LAW PLLC$76,329
WYOMING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION$50,000
CROWE & DUNLEVY$25,068
THE ARNOLD LAW FIRM$25,000
GRAY ICE HIGDON$24,307
COUCH WHITE LLP$23,500
EDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION$15,000
EDVILLAGE GROUP$10,000
EDCHOICE$10,000
NEWDEAL$10,000
PATTERSON HARKAVY$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION: $23k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$430k · 6 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
32

Total granted

$430k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • LL
    LANDMARK LAW PLLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $117k
  • DP
    DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $104k · revenue 0%
  • CB
    CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $133k · revenue +49%
  • ROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $116k · revenue +28%
  • KF
    KIPP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $108k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Charter Schools Association Advocates

To increase the involvement of the charter school community in the political process, create a pipeline of charter school supporters and activitists, endorse and support public officials who are committed to california charter public…

Education
2
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
3
Mastery Charter High 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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
5
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
6
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
7
Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy

To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.

Education
8
Network of Schools of Public Policy Affairs and Administration

To ensure excellence in education and training for public service and to promote the ideal of public service.

—
9
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
10
Icahn Charter School 1

See schedule othe mission of icahn charter schools is to cultivate a climate of collaborative excellence among students, staff, families, and the community. our four pillars of transformative education guide icahn educators as they adopt a…

Education
11
Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools

The organization's mission is to advocate, communicate, engage in coalition building, and support quality to create an environment conducive to the growth of pennsylvania's charter movement, and provide services to its charter school…

Education
12
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Democracy Prep Public Schools and the most unlike its peers is Education Writers Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%14%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%12%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,518

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $132,932 · EducationTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATIONROCKETSHIP EDUCATION — $115,916 · EducationROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONKIPP FOUNDATION — $107,500 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR IOWA — $100,000 · EducationGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR IOWA50CAN INC — $70,794 · Education50CAN INCILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $68,551 · EducationILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLSLA COALITION FOR EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOL — $55,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $51,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $50,525 · EducationHIGHER GROUND ACADEMY — $48,118 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $42,500 · EducationCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $38,682 · Education+15 more — $240,404 · Education+15 moreSTEPTOE & JOHNSON — $119,304 · OtherSTEPTOE & JOHNSONLANDMARK LAW PLLC — $117,005 · OtherLANDMARK LAW PLLCCROWE & DUNLEVY — $50,068 · OtherCROWE & DUNLEVYWYOMING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherWYOMING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS A…THE ARNOLD LAW FIRM — $46,304 · OtherTHE ARNOLD LAW FIRMEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION — $37,750 · OtherEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES — $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION C…GRAY ICE HIGDON — $24,307 · OtherCOUCH WHITE LLP — $23,500 · Other+5 more — $42,098 · Other+5 moreDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $104,151 · Arts & CultureCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,300 · Civil RightsNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS PARENTS UNITED INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEWDEAL — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,122,422Other$540,336Arts & Culture$104,151Civil Rights$85,300Human Services$23,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $132,932 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION — $115,916 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $104,151 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR IOWA — $100,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budget50CAN INC — $70,794 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $68,551 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLA COALITION FOR EXCELLENT PUBLIC SCHOOL — $55,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $51,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $50,525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIGHER GROUND ACADEMY — $48,118 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $42,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO LEAGUE OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $38,682 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEDUCATION WRITERS ASSOCIATION — $37,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE — $32,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARTER SCHOOLS ACTION FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetMAPSA Foundation — $23,550 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLUUM INC — $20,519 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $17,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $17,384 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHEAST CHARTER SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $17,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $13,789 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS FOR SCHOOL OPTIONS — $11,425 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PARENTS UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEdChoice Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWDEAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIOTA Community Schools — $8,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Oak Lane Charter School — $5,447 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION A NJ NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $5,445 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Walton Family Foundat…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…City FundGates FoundationCampaign for Great Pu…Carnegie Corporation …Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Walton Family Foundation IncAR31.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · City Fund · Gates Foundation · Campaign for Great Public Schools · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Charter Public School Association Inc — 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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