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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.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
31
States reached
$701k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$190MCivil Rights$7.1MCommunity Improvement$5.6MYouth Development$3.4MHuman Services$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MScience & Tech$850kOther$0
02FY2024 · 102 grants

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
$200,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 10%BLACK MEN TEACH: $520k → 11%OJISDA' SUSTAINABLE INDIGENOUS FUTURES: $250k → 11%RISE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $250k → 6%LIFE ACADEMY: $215k → 12%THE INSTITUTE FOR ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION INC: $250k → 12%COMMUNITYSHARE: $250k → 15%BLACK MEN TEACH: $200k → 11%RISE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $250k → 6%MCEL (MEN OF COLOR IN ED LEADERSHIP): $250k → 13%SER FAMILIA INC: $250k → 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $200k → 22%MCEL (MEN OF COLOR IN ED LEADERSHIP): $160k → 13%BATTELLE EDUCATION: $195k → 15%PARENT POWER LAB: $250k → 15%PARENT POWER LAB: $200k → 15%ELLA BAKER INSTITUTE: $200k → 20%CONEXION AMERICAS: $205k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $155k → 14%PROGRESO LATINO INC: $150k → 14%THE INSPIRED COMMUNITY PROJECT INC: $200k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $205k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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VT
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ID
MN
IL
MI
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MA
OR
NV
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IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
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KY
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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AR
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DC
HI
OK
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AL
GA
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FL

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.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145M · 243 repeat orgs$67M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

243
319

Total granted

$145M
$57M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

  • PP
    PURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +731%
  • IP
    Impact Public Schools
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue ×20
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $792k · revenue -70%
  • HA
    HIAWATHA ACADEMIESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +61%
  • FE
    Family Engagement Lab
    one 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.

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.

1
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education
2
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
3
The Peak School

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…

Education
4
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

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…

Education
5
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
6
The Royal School System

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.

Education
7
Elite Public Schools

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…

Education
8
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

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…

10
Intellectus Preparatory Charter School

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.…

Education
11
Equal Opportunity Schools

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…

Education
12
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

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacySchool Parent OrganizationsLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%33%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%10%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%18/615
the rest of the field
13%
240,378/1,818,950

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

118
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
148
Early backer (in before they grew)
398/424
Grantees still filing
282/424
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+132 more — $92,340,547 · Education+132 moreTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $2,248,750 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL…DALLAS ISD — $2,072,680 · OtherDALLAS ISDGWINNETT COUNTY SCHOOLS — $1,890,000 · OtherGWINNETT COUNTY SCHOOLSFAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,190,000 · Other+42 more — $24,131,117 · Other+42 moreYouthBuild Newark Inc — $995,000 · Youth DevelopmentNYC FIRST Inc — $860,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentRADICAL ARTS ACADEMY OF DENVER — $530,000 · Youth DevelopmentFamily Engagement Lab — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC — $365,000 · Youth DevelopmentProject OneTen — $365,000 · Youth DevelopmentTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC — $1,710,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND — $905,000 · EnvironmentTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $750,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $450,000 · PhilanthropyADVANCE RURAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $397,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $385,000 · PhilanthropyBlack Men Teach — $720,000 · Human ServicesRISE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesParent Power Lab Inc — $450,000 · Human ServicesMCEL UNITED INC — $410,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AMERICAS — $360,000 · Human ServicesTECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION — $555,000 · Community ImprovementCAMELBACK VENTURES — $540,000 · Community ImprovementBeloved Community Inc — $410,000 · Community Improvement
Education$92,340,547Other$31,532,547Youth Development$4,215,000Environment$2,615,000Philanthropy$2,482,500Human Services$2,440,000Community Improvement$1,505,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPURDUE POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL OF INDIANAPOLIS INC — $2,580,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetImpact Public Schools — $2,452,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $2,248,750 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetZETA CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $2,230,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC — $2,125,129 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC — $1,710,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetVALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES — $1,475,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHIRD FUTURE SCHOOLS — $1,374,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $1,370,800 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $1,290,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBELIEVE CIRCLE CITY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $1,160,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetTRANSCEND INC — $1,157,638 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetLATINO EDUCATIONAL EQUITY — $1,155,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION — $1,075,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,040,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetDIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,040,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC — $1,035,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,005,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC — $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS — $1,000,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetYouthBuild Newark Inc — $995,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC — $965,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $950,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetASPIRA OF DELAWARE CHARTER OPERATIONS IN — $922,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $905,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $905,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCatalyst Public Schools — $894,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA — $890,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGROWTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $872,500 over 6y, 36% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $865,800 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetDEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INC — $860,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC — $860,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBecoming Collegiate Academy Inc — $860,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNYC FIRST Inc — $860,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMobile Area Education Foundation Inc — $855,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $850,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBLUUM INC — $840,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetHIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $830,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc — $827,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetI3 ACADEMY — $815,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA — $805,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $800,000 over 5y, 85% of budgetUniversity Charter School — $800,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $800,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetEDNOVATE INC — $800,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC — $791,667 over 1y, 18% of budgetALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL — $760,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetPHOENIX INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY — $755,000 over 5y, 74% of budget
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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO157.4× affinity112 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • YouthBuild Newark Inc27% of income from government
  • He Is Me Institute Inc16% of income from government
  • The Teachers' Lounge Inc14% of income from government
  • Teach Western Mass Inc11% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
77report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 615 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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