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National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$815k
Granted FY2025still arriving
98
Grants FY2025still arriving
38
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$97kCivil Rights$73kCommunity Improvement$71kSocial Science$70kYouth Development$62kPublic Benefit$33kArts & Culture$30kHuman Services$16kOther$424k
02FY2025 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k66 grants · $257k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $558k
$5,500
Median grant
38
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
50CAN INC$40,000
SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC$35,000
UTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS$30,000
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$28,500
IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC$25,000
SLAM FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$25,000
NATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER$20,000
PARENTS UNITED AMERICA$20,000
BROWN HOUSE EXPERIENCE$20,000
FAMILIES EMPOWERED$20,000
OAKLAND ENROLLS$20,000
SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS$18,000
PA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE INC$15,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC$15,000
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 (FY24–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $15k → 10%GOLDEN GATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1k → 17%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

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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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 55 repeat orgs$684k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
34

Total granted

$1.6M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther

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

  • 5I
    50CAN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $119k · revenue +21%
  • UA
    UTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +45%
  • SF
    SLAM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $61k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NN
    NAVIGATE - NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE RESOURCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · 96% of their budget
  • MS
    MY SC EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue 0%
  • The Education Trust Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +9%

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
Liberty Charter School Inc

Public Education.

Education
2
Compass Public Charter School

Public Education.

Education
3
Scholarmade Educational Services

ScholarMade Educational Services provides program development support to new and existing charter schools.

Education
4
Another Choice Virtual Charter School

Public Education.

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5
Pocatello Community Charter School

Public Education.

Education
6
Elevate Academy

Public Education.

Education
7
Idaho Science & Technology Charter

Public Education.

Education
8
Alliance Charter Academy

Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.

Education
9
Technology for Education Consortium

To bring transparency, efficiency, and collaboration to k-12 schools engaged in evaulating and purchasing edtech products and services. we believe that greater transparency and better information will allow school districts to improve…

Education
10
Rise Charter School Inc

Public Education.

Education
11
Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center

Public Education.

Education
12
Academy of Charter Schools Inc

Form 990 - Organizations Mission The Academy provides education to Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade students. The Academy serves our students to develop college ready exemplary citizens by promoting excellence in academics character and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Challenge and the most unlike its peers is Guided Inc. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…School Parent OrganizationsIndependent K-12 Schools
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 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%20%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%22%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/109
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,456

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

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 128 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/90
Grantees still filing
39/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAVIGATE - NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $250,000 · EducationNAVIGATE - NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE RESOURCE CENTER INC50CAN INC — $119,000 · Education50CAN INCUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $80,000 · EducationUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSFAMILIES EMPOWERED — $75,000 · EducationSLAM FOUNDATION INC — $61,000 · EducationNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER — $50,700 · Education+52 more — $791,448 · Education+52 moreBLACK STUDENT FUND — $45,375 · OtherBLACK STUDENT FUNDOakland Enrolls — $35,000 · OtherOakland EnrollsALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL CHOICE INC DBA AFC GROWTH FUND — $32,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL CHOI…NATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC — $27,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARENTS UNION I…A FOR ARIZONA — $20,000 · OtherEDREFORM VIRGINIA INC — $19,465 · OtherALASKA SCHOOL CHOICE FUND — $17,500 · OtherMACKINAC CENTER — $23,000 · OtherNorth Carolina Alliance for Public Charter Schools — $28,900 · OtherNorth Carolina Alliance …+46 more — $253,134 · Other+46 moreTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $73,500 · PhilanthropyARIZONA SCHOOL CHOICE TRUST INC — $22,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPARENTS UNITED AMERICA — $35,000 · Civil RightsBlack Mothers Forum Inc — $32,500 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's Forum — $5,000 · Civil RightsSCISSORTAIL COMMUNITY DEVELOP CORP — $46,150 · Community ImprovementIDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMontana Family Institute Inc — $40,400 · Social ScienceAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $17,500 · Social ScienceCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc — $12,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROWN HOUSE EXPERIENCE INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentDeKalb Christian Home Educators Inc — $19,500 · Youth DevelopmentChildren Read Succeed — $6,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,427,148Other$502,374Philanthropy$97,000Civil Rights$72,500Community Improvement$71,150Social Science$69,900Youth Development$62,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNAVIGATE - NATIONAL SCHOOL CHOICE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 96% of budget50CAN INC — $119,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $80,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED — $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $73,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSLAM FOUNDATION INC — $61,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTER — $50,700 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC — $47,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSCISSORTAIL COMMUNITY DEVELOP CORP — $46,150 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBLACK STUDENT FUND — $45,375 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI — $42,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS — $41,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetMontana Family Institute Inc — $40,400 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FAMILIES UNITED FOR EDUCATION INCORPORATED — $37,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetPublic Charter Schools of New Mexico — $37,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetShow Me KC Schools Inc — $37,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPA FAMILIES FOR EDUCATION CHOICE — $37,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE BROWN HOUSE EXPERIENCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetOakland Enrolls — $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBlack Mothers Forum Inc — $32,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $32,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Alliance for Public Charter Schools — $28,900 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPARENTS CHALLENGE — $27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC — $24,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $23,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SCHOOL CHOICE TRUST INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetParents for Educational Freedom in NC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE REFORM ALLIANCE — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDCHOICE KENTUCKY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetEDUCATION FREEDOM ALABAMA — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetA FOR ARIZONA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeKalb Christian Home Educators Inc — $19,500 over 3y, 36% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE YOUR SCHOOL — $16,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHomeschool Yo Kids Organization — $15,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE — $13,888 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARENT ADVOCATES FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI — $12,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLACK ALABAMIANS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 6.4% 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.

The Seminar Network I…American Federation f…EdChoice IncThe Lynde and Harry B…State Policy NetworkBeth and Ravenel Curr…The Center for Educat…Donors Trust IncWalton Family Foundat…Bradley Impact Fund I…Charles Koch Foundati…Yes Every Kid Inc
The Seminar Network IncVA35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Seminar Network Inc · American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc · EdChoice Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · State Policy Network · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · The Center for Education Reform · Donors Trust Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Yes Every Kid Inc

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 School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc 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 · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Indian River Charter High School Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 128 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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