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State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Inc

To support high quality state charter schools serving children throughout Georgia by leveraging resources to help schools launch, build capacity, and grow.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$613k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$4.5MYouth Development$129kEmployment$33kHealth$33kCommunity Improvement$32kArts & Culture$27kInternational$16k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $393k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$75,044
Median grant
1
States reached
$699k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Excelsior Village Academie$613,052
Scintilla Charter Academy$293,189
Anchor Schools Inc$258,180
Utopian Academy for the Ar$178,426
Sankofa Montessori$76,740
Ethos Classical Academy$75,044
The Wright Community Schoo$62,499
Rocky Creek Charter Academ$40,800
Dominian Purpose School$27,267
Simple Vue Academy Charter$22,915
Yi Hwang Academy of Langua$20,059
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%7 Pillar Career Academy: $33k → 15%Atlanta Heights Charter: $16k → 13%Atlanta Heights Charter: $12k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 22 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$3.4M
$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+29%

Still filing today

91%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $787k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • AS
    ANCHOR SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $599k · revenue +698% · 41% of their budget
  • SM
    SANKOFA MONTESSORI
    3× · 2023–2025 · $458k · revenue +439% · 36% of their budget
  • UA
    UTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $452k · revenue +407%

Funded once

  • DB
    DEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $280k · revenue +29%
  • PA
    PEACE ACADEMY CHARTERgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $234k · revenue +30%
  • DS
    DELTA STEAM ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
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
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
2
Philips Academy Charter School Inc

Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.

Education
3
Ivy Bound Academy

Education

Education
4
Vision Academy Charter School

The mission of vision academy charter school is to prepare students in kindergarten through 8th grade to become responsible and articulate students and citizens by using a comprehensive curriculum designed to foster academic success and…

Education
5
American Legacy Academy

Provide students with an education that is both classical and American in its orientation

Education
6
Philips Academy Charter School of Paterson

We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…

Education
7
Georgia Cyber Academy Inc

Provide exemplary individualized/engaging education by incorporating school/community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum within a data-driven and student-centered instructional model.

Education
8
Academir Charter School Inc

Provide educational services to students in kindergarten to twelfth grade.

Education
9
Chester Charter Scholars Academy

Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.

Education
10
Ivy Academy Inc

The mission of ivy academy is to provide a quality program with an emphasis on scholarship, environmental stewardship, and volunteerism for all students, designed to prepare them to positively influence society and nature.

Education
11
Arts Academy Charter School

The Arts Academy Charter School: Serving students in grades 5-8, is a free, arts-enriched public school. Academic curriculum will be enriched by classes in dance, figure

Education
12
Emblaze Academy Charter School

Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Charter School of Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fulton Leadership Academy. 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

36 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. 36 of the 42 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EXCELSIOR VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $613,052 · EducationEXCELSIOR VILLAGE ACADEMIESANCHOR SCHOOLS INC: $599,401 · EducationANCHOR SCHOOLS INCSANKOFA MONTESSORI: $457,952 · EducationSANKOFA MONTESSORIUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC: $452,121 · EducationUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INCMILES AHEAD CHARTER SCHOOL: $400,000 · EducationMILES AHEAD CHARTER SCHOOLDEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INC: $280,200 · EducationDEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INCZEST PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $270,000 · EducationZEST PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCAMANA ACADEMY INC: $234,220 · EducationAMANA ACADEMY INCPEACE ACADEMY CHARTER: $234,220 · EducationPEACE ACADEMY CHARTER+23 more: $666,578 · Education+23 moreScintilla Charter Academy: $295,189 · PhilanthropyTIANA STEPHENSON DBA THE WRIGHT COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $62,499 · OtherThe Museum School: $50,000 · OtherDOMINION PURPOSE ACADEMY INC: $27,267 · OtherMOUNTAIN EDUCATION CENTER INC: $8,600 · Other+2 more: $6,500 · OtherYOUTHSERV360 INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesSAIL-SCHOOL FOR ARTS-INFUSED LEARNING: $2,000 · Religion
Education$4,207,744Philanthropy$295,189Other$154,866Human Services$127,500Religion$2,000

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 budgetEXCELSIOR VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $613,052 over 1y, 25% of budgetANCHOR SCHOOLS INC: $599,401 over 3y, 41% of budgetSANKOFA MONTESSORI: $457,952 over 3y, 36% of budgetUTOPIAN ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS THE MILLER FOUNDATION INC: $452,121 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMILES AHEAD CHARTER SCHOOL: $400,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetScintilla Charter Academy: $295,189 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDEKALB BRILLIANCE ACADEMY INC: $280,200 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAMANA ACADEMY INC: $234,220 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPEACE ACADEMY CHARTER: $234,220 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetETHOS CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $92,044 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIVY PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $75,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDUBOIS INTEGRITY ACADEMY: $56,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS INNOVATION ACADEMY INC: $52,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDELTA STEAM ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTYBEE ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA TYBEE ISLAND MARITIME ACADEMY: $49,960 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHephzibah Charter Foundation: $40,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA CHARTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFulton Leadership Academy: $25,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SIMPLE VUE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $22,915 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYI HWANG ACADEMY INC: $20,059 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COBB INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL OF ATLANTA INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Charter Academy of Georgia Inc: $16,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSLAM ACADEMY OF ATLANTA INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESURGENCE HALL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrookhaven Innovation Academy: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL PLAINS EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATAULA CHARTER ACADEMY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCirrus Education Group Inc Cirrus Academy Charter School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL-SCHOOL FOR ARTS-INFUSED LEARNING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY TECH CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Every Student Every C…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…New Schools FundLouis Calder Foundati…High Tech High Gradua…The Reinvestment Fund…Atlanta Community Foo…New York Life Foundat…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Every Student Every Community IncGA36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Every Student Every Community Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund · Louis Calder Foundation · High Tech High Graduate School of Education · The Reinvestment Fund Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · New York Life Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Charter Schools Foundation of Georgia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 42 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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