How much does Propel Schools Foundation give?

Propel Schools Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $612,618, out of $714,069 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Propel Schools Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).

Who are Propel Schools Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Propel Schools Inc ($5.9M), Propel Charter School-Montour ($419k), Propel Charter School - Pitcairn ($370k).

Does Propel Schools Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Propel Schools Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tickets for Kids Foundation.

Where is Propel Schools Foundation based?

Propel Schools Foundation is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Propel Schools Foundation

The PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION supports the mission of propel schools: to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access to high-performing public schools. PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION seeks and accepts donations and other resources that advance our imperative work that empowers our scholars to achieve…

$714k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 4
Itemized grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $613k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $121,459
Largest grant, FY2025: $470,985
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 8; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Propel Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	4	$613k	0%
FY2024	7	$1.2M	0%
FY2023	8	$835k	0%
FY2022	8	$826k	0%
FY2021	8	$538k	0%
FY2020	8	$1.2M	0%
FY2019	7	$693k	0%
FY2018	8	$930k	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$7.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Propel Schools Inc	$5,856,591	9	4%
Propel Charter School-Montour	$418,768	9	1%
Propel Charter School - Pitcairn	$369,919	8	3%
Propel Charter School-McKeesport	$346,699	8	2%
Propel Charter School-East	$292,559	7	2%
Propel Charter School-Hazelwood	$235,028	9	2%
Propel Charter School-Northside	$127,011	7	1%
Propel Charter School Sunrise	$123,831	9	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Propel Schools Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Tickets for Kids FoundationPA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Propel Schools Foundation

How much does Propel Schools Foundation give?: Propel Schools Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $612,618, out of $714,069 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Propel Schools Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Propel Schools Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Propel Schools Inc ($5.9M), Propel Charter School-Montour ($419k), Propel Charter School - Pitcairn ($370k).
Does Propel Schools Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Propel Schools Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tickets for Kids Foundation.
Where is Propel Schools Foundation based?: Propel Schools Foundation is based in PA.