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· Public charity
PROJECT RENAISSANCE
To develop and license teachers with diverse backgrounds and experiences for schools in middle tn.
$613k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants
2
Communities
$438k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
- $250k+1 grant · $438k
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY$18,000
- NASHVILLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY$18,000
- STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY$10,000
- NEW VISION CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
North East Carolina Preparatory
North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.
Education
2
Oxford Preparatory Academy
Operate charter schools serving students in grades tk-8 in a classroom-based instructional setting.
Education
3
Legacy College Preparatory Charter
Through rigorous academic instruction, values-based character development, and the pursuit of ambitious goals, legacy college preparatory charter school ensures all students in grades six through twelve are prepared to graduate from…
Education
4
Community Preparatory School
Community preparatory school is an independent private school, serving grades 4 to 8, striving to empower our diverse student body to reach full academic and leadership potential while building a beloved community.
Education
5
Gateway Preparatory Academy
A charter school serving students from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Education
6
Ambition Preparatory Charter School
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…
Education
7
Dc Preparatory Academy
Dc prep is a network of public charter schools serving pk3-8th grade students in washington, dc.
Education
8
Episcopal School of Nashville
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.
Education
9
Scholarship Prep
To provide a university-inspired pathway of success for all students.
Education
10
Oxford Preparatory School Inc
Operation of a public charter school
Education
11
Parents in Partnership
Operate a charter school that prepares students for college through challenging methodologies.
Education
12
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stem Preparatory Academy 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.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$567,000Other$28,000Religion$18,000
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 D2D ↗
- Who funds INTREPID COLLEGE PREP ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE PREP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REPUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- 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.
Scarlett Family FoundationTN18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Scarlett Family Foundation · Charter Fund Inc · Tennessee State Collaborative On · City Fund · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 275316628 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Share of budget not derivable.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Project Renaissance?
Find your warmest path to Project Renaissance through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines