· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MEMONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +39% · 67% of their budget
- MPMAEF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +181%
- AAALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +143% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSUBRECIPIENT CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $665k
- ICIRON CITY EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BSBARNABAS SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Schools of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Alabama Classical Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MONTGOMERY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAEF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds LIFE LADIES INFLUENCING FREEDOM AND EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CLASSICAL GROUP ↗
- Who funds Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc ↗
- Who funds Covenant Academy of Mobile ↗
- Who funds FLORETTA P CARSON VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
- Who funds University Charter School ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Schools of Alabama ↗
- Who funds LEAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legacy Schools ↗
- Who funds Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds I DREAM BIG ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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