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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 it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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

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4
Brown School

Running a private school.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Altamont School; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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
0/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Renaissance Scholarships Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Renaissance Scholarships Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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