How much did NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA grant in FY2024?

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA reported 17 grants totaling $5,032,809 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA based?

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is based in AL.

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA

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· Public charity

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA

Our mission is to support the growth of excellent public charter schools in alabama to ensure that every child has access to a quality public education.

$5.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.1M

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$16MHuman Services$2.2MOther$839k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

supp info

2021

see scheduleschedule supplementalsupplemental information

2022

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2023

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2024

see scheduleschedule supplementalsupplemental information

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k2 grants · $52k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$250k+6 grants · $4.0M

$130,500

Median grant

States reached

$8.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY$1,103,457
ALABAMA CLASSICAL GROUP$1,070,935
FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY$694,915
EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC$479,053
COVENANT ACADEMY OF MOBILE$331,657
BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL$288,517
INDEPENDENCE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA$187,021
WOODLAWN COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL$185,802
MAEF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC$130,500
ALABAMA AEROSPACE AND AVIATION SCHOOLS INC$118,306
UNIVERSITY CHARTER SCHOOL$104,000
LEAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$79,500
PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES INDIANA INC$76,500
LEGACY SCHOOLS$75,000
MAGIC CITY ACCEPTANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$54,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 17 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$815k

Still filing today

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman 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

ME
MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FUND
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +68% · 67% of their budget
MP
MAEF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +255%
AA
ALABAMA AEROSPACE AND AVIATION SCHOOLS INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +2415% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

SC
SUBRECIPIENT CHARTER SCHOOLS
one grant, 2020 · $665k
IC
IRON CITY EDUCATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k
BS
BARNABAS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Independence Academy

Independency academy mission statement: at independence academy charter school, how children learn is as important as what they learn. our mission is to inspire learners to engage in challenges and demonstrate resiliency. we nuture…

Education

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

American Legacy Academy

American Legacy Academy is a charter school who provides a classical education

Education

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

Vision Academy Charter School

The mission of vision academy charter school is to prepare students in kindergarten through 8th grade to become responsible and articulate students and citizens by using a comprehensive curriculum designed to foster academic success and…

Education

Ivy Bound Academy

Education

Achievement House Charter School

It is the mission of the achievement house cyber charter school to provide all students with an experience that is complete with improved personal outcome and academic success and achievement in a rich and personalized learning environment…

Education

Gateway Preparatory Academy

A charter school serving students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

Education

Legacy College Preparatory Charter

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

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

Global Scholars Academy (Gsa)

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

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

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$15,943,822Human Services$2,158,891Other$838,942

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.

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.

Charter Fund IncCO30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc · New Schools Fund · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · 50can Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +68% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463586388 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to New Schools for Alabama?

Find your warmest path to New Schools for Alabama through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to New Schools for Alabama?

More from the funding graph

NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to New Schools for Alabama?

More from the funding graph