· Public charity
New Schools Fund
To improve public education by identifying and supporting the most promising education ventures in the country, and creating a nationwide network of education entrepreneurs committed to closing the achievement gap.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k75 grants · $12M
- $250k+24 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $701,250 |
| CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY | $322,500 |
| FOUST GAMING AND ROBOTICS SCHOOL (GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS) | $315,000 |
| RADICAL ARTS ACADEMY DENVER | $315,000 |
| EDGECOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $315,000 |
| CHATTACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $302,500 |
| EXCELSIOR VILLAGE ACADEMIES INC | $285,000 |
| BEDFORD STUYVESANT NEW BEGINNINGS CHARTER SCHOOLS | $272,500 |
| BELIEVE SCHOOLS | $265,000 |
| CULTIVATING LITERACY | $250,000 |
| THE AI EDUCATION PROJECT (AIEDU) | $250,000 |
| PEERTEACH INC | $250,000 |
| EDUCATE78 (DBA LEADERSHIP FOR LIBERATION) | $250,000 |
| PALOMA LEARNING INC | $250,000 |
| CAPTI - CHARMTECH LABS LLC | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
243 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 188 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M 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
- PPPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +731%
- IPImpact Public Schools7× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue ×20
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- NCNEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $792k · revenue -70%
- HAHIAWATHA ACADEMIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +61%
- FEFamily Engagement Labone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -40%
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.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
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…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…
Consistent with its approved charter, the purpose for which the corporation is organized is to establish and operate a charter school (the "charter school") to deliver an equitable educational experience for students in grades 6-12.…
Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Braille Box 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.
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 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
424 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. 424 of the 615 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Public Schools ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD DC ↗
- Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds VALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds THIRD FUTURE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE CIRCLE CITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSCEND INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds YouthBuild Newark Inc ↗
- Who funds FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATIONS IN ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Catalyst Public Schools ↗
- Who funds PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
- Who funds GROWTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds DEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Becoming Collegiate Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NYC FIRST Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile Area Education Foundation Inc ↗
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 · City Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · Education Forward DC · Gates Foundation · Camelback Ventures · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Profit Inc · Michael & Susan Dell 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 Fund 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.
- YouthBuild Newark Inc — 27% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Teachers' Lounge Inc — 14% of income from government
- Teach Western Mass Inc — 11% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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.