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Project Renaissance
To develop and license teachers with diverse backgrounds and experiences for schools in Middle TN.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
- $250k+1 grant · $438k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $437,500 |
| D2D | $37,500 |
| INTREPID COLLEGE PREP | $28,000 |
| PURPOSE PREP ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| EXPLORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| REPUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $18,000 |
| NASHVILLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $18,000 |
| STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NEW VISION CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.
Through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work, ambition preparatory charter school ensures that all students in kindergarten through grade eight have academic skills and self-discipline for college and life…
The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.
To develop and license teachers with diverse backgrounds and experiences for schools in Middle TN.
To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.
Leadership preparatory charter school is an academically challenging, disciplined, supportive, and joyful school. our mission isa to provide k-8 students with the academic and character foundation necessary to excel in high school,…
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
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…
North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intrepid College Preparatory School and the most unlike its peers is Nashville Classical Charter School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds INSTRUCTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds INTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RePublic Schools Jackson Inc ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
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: Scarlett Family Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · Joe C Davis Foundation · City Fund · 50can Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Project Renaissance 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.