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New Futures

Mission: to create educational opportunities for rewarding careers.

$469k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Education$345kYouth Development$62kHuman Services$16k
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $40,407, the rows itemized in this filing. The $469,036 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $428,629 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$13,560
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAYC CAREER ACADEMY$14,907
COLLEGE TRACKS$13,560
LIBERTY'S PROMISE$11,940
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Liberty's Promise: $31k → 9%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $15k → 9%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $12k → 9%Covenant House Washington: $16k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 5 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$257k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CI
    COLLEGETRACKS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $118k · revenue +120%
  • LP
    LIBERTY'S PROMISE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +61%
  • LC
    LAYC CAREER ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • LA
    LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +25%
  • THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $41k · revenue -8%
  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +40%
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
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
2
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
3
The Maya Angelou Public Charter School

To create learning communities in lower income urban areas where all students, particularly those who have not succeeded in traditional schools, can reach their potential and prepare for college, career and a lifetime of success.

Education
4
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
5
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
6
Liguori Inc

The mission of liguori academy is to prepare future leaders through individualized learning in a community that offers boundless opportunities. liguori academy uses individualized curricula to drive the instructional approach each student…

Education
7
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
8
Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America

Leadership enterprise for a diverse america (leda) empowers a community of exceptional young leaders from under-resourced backgrounds by supporting their higher education and professional success in order to create a more inclusive and…

Education
9
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
10
Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

Human Services
11
The Work Group Inc

The work group provides at-risk youth in transition to adulthood with the resources they need to become self-directed, self-sufficient individuals and productive, responsible members of their families and communities.

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12
Multicultural Career Intern Program

The mission of mcip and its public school affiliate, chec, is to strive to become a model professional learning community that respects and responds to the diverse needs of our underserved students by preparing them for the acasemic rigors…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Next Step Public Charter School; the most unlike its peers is New York Avenue Foundation. 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

15 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGETRACKS INC: $117,514 · EducationCOLLEGETRACKS INCLAYC CAREER ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $47,081 · EducationLAYC CAREER ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLTHE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $31,200 · EducationTHE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLYEAR UP INC: $7,800 · EducationLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $57,855 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISECOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $15,600 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE WASH…THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $41,200 · EmploymentTHE URBAN ALLIANCE…JUBILEE JOBS INC: $27,336 · EmploymentJUBILEE JOBS INCLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $62,400 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AMERICAN Y…NEW YORK AVENUE FOUNDATION: $7,800 · OtherACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,500 · Other
Education$203,595Human Services$73,455Employment$68,536Youth Development$62,400Other$15,300

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $117,514 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $62,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE: $57,855 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLAYC CAREER ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $47,081 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $41,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $31,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS INC: $27,336 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $15,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…Network for GoodCorina Higginson Trus…John Edward Fowler Me…World Bank Community …Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Network for Good · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 11 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $395k 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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