How much does New Schools for Alabama give?

New Schools for Alabama reported 16 grants totaling $10,377,657 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does New Schools for Alabama fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are New Schools for Alabama's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Montgomery Education Foundation ($5.5M), Maef Public Charter Schools Inc ($2.3M), I3 Academy ($2.0M).

Does New Schools for Alabama fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as New Schools for Alabama?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, New Schools Fund, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.

Where is New Schools for Alabama based?

New Schools for Alabama is based in AL.

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Alabama · 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.

$10M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 17
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $547,844
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,851,300
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 17; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations New Schools for Alabama funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

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

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	16	$10M	13%
FY2024	17	$5.0M	18%
FY2023	17	$5.2M	29%
FY2022	12	$3.9M	42%
FY2021	9	$3.8M	78%
FY2020	3	$920k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$19M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Montgomery Education Foundation	$5,453,309	5	67%
Maef Public Charter Schools Inc	$2,327,687	5	20%
I3 Academy	$2,043,434	5	5%
Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter School Alabama	$1,864,342	2	62%
Breakthrough Charter School	$1,760,755	4	12%
Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School	$1,728,001	4	33%
Empower Schools of Alabama	$1,682,001	5	28%
Covenant Academy of Mobile	$1,351,456	3	22%
Floretta P Carson Visual and Performing Arts Academy	$1,211,637	3	46%
Life Ladies Influencing Freedom and Excellence	$1,155,006	3	8%

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All grantees of New Schools for Alabama by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Montgomery Education Foundation	$5,453,309	5	67%
Maef Public Charter Schools Inc	$2,327,687	5	20%
I3 Academy	$2,043,434	5	5%
Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter School Alabama	$1,864,342	2	62%
Breakthrough Charter School	$1,760,755	4	12%
Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School	$1,728,001	4	33%
Empower Schools of Alabama	$1,682,001	5	28%
Covenant Academy of Mobile	$1,351,456	3	22%
Floretta P Carson Visual and Performing Arts Academy	$1,211,637	3	46%
Life Ladies Influencing Freedom and Excellence	$1,155,006	3	8%
I Dream Big Academy Charter School	$1,113,000	2	61%
Independence Schools of Alabama	$1,100,000	3	87%
Alabama Classical Group	$1,099,995	2	0%
Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc	$1,042,881	4	45%
University Charter School	$971,472	4	1%
Lead Education Foundation	$717,844	4	n/a
Legacy Schools	$613,716	4	1%
Phalen Leadership Academy - Indiana	$476,500	3	1%
Freedom Preparatory Academy Inc	$340,000	2	1%
Black Alabamians for Educational Options	$200,000	1	38%
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles	$150,000	2	0%
Iron City Education	$100,000	1	n/a
Invictus Career Institute	$100,000	1	n/a
Barnabas School of Leadership	$50,000	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($665k), not named here.

New Schools for Alabama supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · 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

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.

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About New Schools for Alabama

How much does New Schools for Alabama give?: New Schools for Alabama reported 16 grants totaling $10,377,657 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does New Schools for Alabama fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are New Schools for Alabama's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Montgomery Education Foundation ($5.5M), Maef Public Charter Schools Inc ($2.3M), I3 Academy ($2.0M).
Does New Schools for Alabama fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as New Schools for Alabama?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, New Schools Fund, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
Where is New Schools for Alabama based?: New Schools for Alabama is based in AL.