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Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$4.8MHuman Services$106kPublic Benefit$69kSocial Science$57kYouth Development$16kScience & Tech$10kPhilanthropy$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $935k
$59,863
Median grant
12
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$135,000
GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS$132,083
SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$130,000
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT$125,088
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$83,000
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY$80,216
PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL SCHOLARS$67,500
Individual grant recipient$62,000
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$60,358
SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$59,863
THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$45,000
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$37,500
Individual grant recipient$33,000
Individual grant recipient$27,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$23,088
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 (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SECUREFUTURES INC: $20k → 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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Next Gen Personal Finance’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Next Gen Personal Financelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 21 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
247

Total granted

$3.1M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+23%

Still filing today

29%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationSocial ScienceHuman 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

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $270k · revenue +93%
  • FS
    FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $270k · revenue +92%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • PG
    PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $140k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $107k
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -5%

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
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
2
21ST Century Cyber Charter School

Empower all students and families to become active participants in their own learning and equip them with skills for the future. we achieve this through engaging content, delvered by innovative teaching in a culture of caring.

Education
3
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
4
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
5
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
6
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
7
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
8
Chester Charter Scholars Academy

Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.

Education
9
Darnall Charter School

We are committed to academic excellence by vigorously engaging students in a rigorous, student-centered learning environment that will foster the development of global citizens.

Education
10
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
11
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
12
Creative City Public Charter School Foundation Inc

Creative City Public Charter School's teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for Economic Education and the most unlike its peers is Fairhill School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%28%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

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.

05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 273 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $270,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCCHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT — $269,254 · OtherCHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG SCHOOL DISTRICTSFUSD — $260,000 · OtherSFUSDCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $255,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $214,183 · OtherGUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS — $196,640 · OtherSCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $182,301 · OtherDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $178,645 · OtherMIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $167,382 · OtherDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY — $160,432 · OtherFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY — $157,005 · Other+169 more — $2,196,291 · Other+169 moreFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC — $270,000 · EducationFINANCIAL SC…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSE…MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $65,500 · EducationMISSISSIPPI …CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $35,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN CO…JUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY — $31,250 · EducationJUMPSTART CO…+12 more — $65,500 · Education+12 moreCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $55,800 · Social ScienceNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $4,000 · Social ScienceSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Human Services
Other$4,507,133Education$567,250Social Science$59,800Human Services$20,000

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 budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $270,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC — $270,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $255,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $65,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $55,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY — $31,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $27,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA DISTANCE LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROXBORO COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPinnacle Classical Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSSEX ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR STUDENT LEARNING CHARTER SCHO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRHILL SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA MENNONITE SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpectrum Charter School Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds FINANCIAL SCHOLARS INC
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds JUMPSTART COALITION FOR PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY
  • Who funds MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
  • Who funds SECUREFUTURES 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.

Share Our StrengthDC23× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Save the Music Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · Feed the Children Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods 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 Next Gen Personal Finance 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Champlain College Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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How do I get to Next Gen Personal Finance?

Find your warmest path to Next Gen Personal Finance through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 273 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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