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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.

$60k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$270k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY$25,000
CAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHO$7,000
STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY$7,000
QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$7,000
UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ELEMEN$7,000
GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$7,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY: $25k → 20%Shining Stars Montessori Academy: $20k → 14%STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $18k → 14%GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $18k → 17%UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ELEMEN: $18k → 14%QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $18k → 10%CAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHO: $18k → 14%STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $7k → 14%GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $7k → 17%UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS ELEMEN: $7k → 14%QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $7k → 10%Howard University Middle School: $20k → 14%CAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHO: $7k → 14%Statesman College Preparatory Acad: $20k → 14%Paul Public Charter School: $20k → 14%Roots Public Charter School: $20k → 14%Richard Write Public Charter School: $20k → 14%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 5 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$125k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • QC
    QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • UA
    UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +155%
  • GC
    GESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SS
    SHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -4%
  • SC
    STATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +223%
  • RW
    RICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +28%
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
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education
2
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
3
Multicultural Academy Charter School

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…

Education
4
Independence Academy

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…

Education
5
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

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…

Education
6
Compass Academy Charter School

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…

Education
7
Summit Academy Charter School

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…

Education
8
Brooklyn Charter School

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…

Education
9
Global Citizens Public Charter School

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…

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10
Chester Charter Scholars Academy

Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.

Education
11
Valence College Preparatory Charter School

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.

Education
12
Legacy College Preparatory Charter School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paul Public Charter School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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.

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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INCGESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationGESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLSSTRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationSTRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMYBROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationBROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMYCAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationCAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationSHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS: $20,000 · EducationSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYSRICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ART: $20,000 · EducationRICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ARTHOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE: $20,000 · EducationHOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCEROOTS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationROOTS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLPAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationPAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC
Education$270,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUEEN CITY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGESTALT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSHINING STARS MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRICHARD WRIGHT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR JOURNALISM AND MEDIA ART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $20,000 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

50can IncAmazonsmile Foundation
50can IncDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to National Charter Collaborative?

    Find your warmest path to National Charter Collaborative through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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