· Public charity
Scholarships for Kids Inc
Our mission is to support education and educational opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $477k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+20 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA | $4,933,139 |
| RESTORATION ACADEMY | $2,618,000 |
| VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY | $894,380 |
| LINCOLN ACADEMY | $785,000 |
| BANKS ACADEMY | $764,792 |
| MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $618,253 |
| DECATUR HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $541,137 |
| HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $533,380 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $507,740 |
| SHOAL'S CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $498,965 |
| THE CAPITOL SCHOOL | $421,956 |
| SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL | $416,250 |
| BUILD UP ENSLEY | $380,000 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $378,600 |
| ELLWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $375,989 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +56% · 48% of their budget
- TRTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +118% · 43% of their budget
- VCVALIANT CROSS ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +13% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE DIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMAone grant, 2022 · $893k
- TCTHE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $83k
- CPCENTRAL PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $71k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Education - private christian school grades k-12
Christian education
Elementary and high school education
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
Christian education, pre-k through 12th grade
The mission of maryville christian school is to partner with christian parents by providing an academically excellent, biblically-based education,producing students with distinctive christian character.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Chattahoochee christian school is committed to be a school that partners with families to create a foundation of christian faith and character upon which to build academic excellence.
Ankeny christian academy provides a biblical based education to over 500 children per school year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Mildred K Neff Tua Fbo St Lukes Catholic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 89 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 CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN VILLAGE PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITOL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ALLIANCE FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILDRED K NEFF TUA FBO ST LUKES CATHOLIC ↗
- Who funds SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAITH ACADEMY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
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: Education Freedom Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Folds of Honor Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Renaissance Scholarships Inc · Operation Round-Up of Cullman & Winston Counties · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable 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 Scholarships for Kids 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.
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.
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