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Renaissance Scholarships Inc

At rsi, our mission is to provide high quality education opportunities to low income students by partnering with the most academically rigorous, private k5-12 schools in the state of alabama through a scholarship granting program.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$130,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTGOMERY CATHOLIC$273,541
RANDOLPH SCHOOL$213,389
ALTAMONT SCHOOL$175,823
DONOHO SCHOOL$163,806
HIGHLANDS SCHOOL$140,000
ADVENT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$130,000
INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL$115,000
JOHN CARROLL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$104,863
ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL$89,654
MONTGOMERY ACADEMY$65,000
NE MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$45,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $115k → 7%RANDOLPH SCHOOL: $213k → 11%ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $176k → 16%MONTGOMERY CATHOLIC: $274k → 18%DONOHO SCHOOL: $164k → 19%HIGHLANDS SCHOOL: $140k → 16%MONTGOMERY ACADEMY: $65k → 18%ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $90k → 16%NE MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $45k → 16%JOHN CARROLL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $105k → 16%ADVENT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $130k → 16%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.

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 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
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
2
Gulf Stream School Inc

Education of grades pre-school through eighth grade.

Education
3
Doane Academy

Private School

4
Brown School

Running a private school.

5
Landon School

Landon school is committed to the ethical, intellectual, and personal development of boys. we challenge and inspire them to think deeply, individually, and broadly; to live with respect and honor; and to grow into healthy, well-rounded men…

Education
6
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
7
Morganton Day School Inc

The school is dedicated to a philosophy of experiential education, parental involvement and a concern for the uniqueness of the individual as a member of a global community.

8
Ecole Francaise Internationale De Philadelphie

The ecole francaise internationale de philadelphie, also known as efip or french international school of philadelphia, is an independent school serving a multicultural community and offering a dual curriculum in french and in english,…

Education
9
Oakhill Day School

Oakhill day school is a community where students are challenged, known, valued and inspired to be their best self.

10
Episcopal Day School Inc

To provide a strong foundation for lifelong learning by engaging the mind, body, and spirit in a nurturing community grounded in episcopal history, tradition, and identity.

Education
11
Manhattan Christian School

Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth

12
Episcopal Day Private School of Manatee County Inc

Education - The School is committed to providing a superior academic program which prepares each student for a college or university compatible with the individual's academic ability, interest and needs (Pre-K through Grade 12).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Altamont School and the most unlike its peers is The Donoho 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RANDOLPH SCHOOL — $213,389 · EducationRANDOLPH SCHOOLTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $175,823 · EducationTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOLTHE DONOHO SCHOOL — $163,806 · EducationTHE DONOHO SCHOOLADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC — $130,000 · EducationADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INCALABAMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION & INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL A CORP — $115,000 · EducationALABAMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION & INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL A CORPN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOLMONTGOMERY CATHOLIC PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $273,541 · OtherMONTGOMERY CATHOLIC PREPARATORY SCHOOLHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $140,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INC — $104,863 · OtherDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INCST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL — $89,654 · OtherST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOLTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY — $65,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$843,018Other$608,058Food & Nutrition$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRANDOLPH SCHOOL — $213,389 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $175,823 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DONOHO SCHOOL — $163,806 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC — $130,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetALABAMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION & INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL A CORP — $115,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY — $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetN E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $45,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Scholarships for Kids Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Renaissance Scholarships Inc 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Renaissance Scholarships Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Renaissance Scholarships Inc 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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