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Schoolhouse Connection

SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION is a national non-profit organization working to overcome homelessness through early care and education.

$13k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Education$210kCivil Rights$7k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD START AND ECEAP$6,250
CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$6,250
02The need
03

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 (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $13k → 11%CA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20k → 12%HI CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $20k → 9%YOUNG INVINCIBLES: $7k → 14%ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON: $6k → 12%OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20k → 14%CHILD CARE SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $7k → 13%UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7k → 27%SCHOOL ON WHEELS: $7k → 16%BUILDING CHANGES: $20k → 9%NEVADA DEPT OF EDUCATION: $7k → 13%NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20k → 13%ERLANGERELSMERE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%COLLABORATIVE SUPPORT SERVICES: $7k → 9%CHILD CARE SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $6k → 13%UGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 27%WASHINGTON STATE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD START AND ECEAP: $6k → 9%ERLANGER ELSMERE SCHOOLS: $7k → 11%ERLANGER ELSMERE SCHOOLS: $6k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
OR
NV
IN
CA
KY
NC
DC
HI
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 4 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$65k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthCivil RightsMembership BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ND
    NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $27k
  • EY
    EARLY YEARS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +24%
  • UO
    University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUILDING CHANGES
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • ES
    ERLANGERELSMERE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • HC
    HAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +272%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Foundation for Child Development
Education
2
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
3
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
4
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
5
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
6
Hawaii State Teachers Association

Served hsta members as their exclusive collective bargaining agent,administered members' contract negotiations with the state of hawaiiconcerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, fringe benefits, hoursand other employment conditions.

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7
Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network Dba Child Care Aware Wa

Child care aware of washington provides thorough and independent information and support for families seeking quality child care, for child care programs seeking to improve quality, and for effective policy making.

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8
California State Student Association

CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.

Education
9
Council of Chief State School Officers

Ccsso through leadership, advocacy and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an american education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life.

Education
10
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children

Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…

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11
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
12
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Children's Action Network; the most unlike its peers is California State Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $26,600 · OtherNEVADA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONERLANGERELSMERE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherERLANGERELSMERE SCHOOL DISTRICTOREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20,000 · OtherOREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONCA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20,000 · OtherCA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONEARLY YEARS INC: $12,850 · OtherEARLY YEARS INCERLANGER ELSMERE SCHOOLS: $12,850 · OtherERLANGER ELSMERE SCHOOLSMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $12,850 · OtherMINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLSCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6,250 · OtherECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON: $6,250 · OtherHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 · EducationHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTIO…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $12,850 · EducationUniversity of Georgia R…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $6,600 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCWashington State Association of Head State and ECEA Programs: $6,250 · EducationWashington State Associ…BUILDING CHANGES: $20,000 · HealthBUILDING C…YOUNG INVINCIBLES: $6,600 · Civil RightsCollaborative Support Services Inc: $6,600 · Membership Benefit
Other$137,650Education$45,700Health$20,000Civil Rights$6,600Membership Benefit$6,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEARLY YEARS INC: $12,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $12,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $6,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCollaborative Support Services Inc: $6,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWashington State Association of Head State and ECEA Programs: $6,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.9% 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 Robert Wood Johns…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · 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 Schoolhouse Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schoolhouse Connection. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Schoolhouse Connection?

    Find your warmest path to Schoolhouse Connection 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 16 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $34k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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