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National Charter Collaborative
NATIONAL CHARTER COLLABORATIVE catalyzes the power of community to support school leaders of color to connect and build the best schools reflective of the communities they serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $7,000 |
| CAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHO | $7,000 |
| STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ELEMEN | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 91% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
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 FY2022, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
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
- QCQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +86%
- UAUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +155%
- GCGESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SSSHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -4%
- SCSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +223%
- RWRICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ARTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +28%
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.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
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…
It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…
The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
The mission of compass academy charter school is to increase each child's success in learning, and as a result, academic achievement. using the "let me learn process" as its innovative approach, the school leadership and teachers will help…
Summit academy charter school bridges the gap between aspirations and reality by preparing sixth through twelfth-grade students to gain acceptance to, excel in, and graduate from college by using three pillars of success: mastery of core…
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.
To equip all scholars in grades five through eight with the academic skills, professional habits, and strength of character to graduate from college and lead lives of opportunity.
Through rigorous academic instruction, values-based character development, and the pursuit of ambitious goals, legacy college preparatory charter school ensures all students in grades six through twelve are prepared to graduate from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paul Public Charter School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Strive Collegiate Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds RICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ART ↗
- Who funds HOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ROOTS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
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: 50can Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Charter Collaborative 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.
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.
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