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Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$790k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$23MPhilanthropy$1.7MCommunity Improvement$632kEnvironment$165kReligion$25kOther$1.8M
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.7M
$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIPP NASHVILLE$789,753
NASHVILLE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE$600,000
PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS$583,110
VOLUNTEER SCHOOLS DBA NASHVILLE INCUBATOR$500,000
NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL$465,000
CHATTANOOGA 20$400,000
MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY$393,600
MEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE$375,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$300,000
LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS$250,000
AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$226,832
TENNESSEE CAREER ACADEMY$206,610
PIVOT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEADERS$200,000
MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY HIGHLAND PARK$170,268
LIBERTAS SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS$160,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PAHARA INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 14%PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $583k → 12%KIPP NASHVILLE: $790k → 14%PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $500k → 12%KIPP NASHVILLE: $477k → 14%TNACHIEVES: $863k → 12%LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $400k → 14%KIPP NASHVILLE: $400k → 14%MEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE: $375k → 17%CHATTANOOGA 20: $400k → 12%LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $250k → 14%HAMILTON-CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC ED FUND: $400k → 12%LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $200k → 14%THE MEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE: $224k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA: $300k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA: $300k → 12%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $589k → 14%HAMILTON-CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC ED FUND: $300k → 12%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%CHATTANOOGA 20: $300k → 12%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND: $770k → 17%HAMILTON-CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC ED FUND: $300k → 12%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND: $750k → 17%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $400k → 14%MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY: $394k → 17%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $335k → 14%MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND: $385k → 17%AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $227k → 14%MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND: $385k → 17%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATIONFOUNDATION: $300k → 14%MEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND: $340k → 17%AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $179k → 14%NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%TENNESSEE CAREER ACADEMY: $207k → 17%NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $465k → 14%NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $438k → 14%NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $348k → 14%PIVOT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEADERS: $200k → 14%PENCIL FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 14%PENCIL FOUNDATION: $456k → 14%NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%NASHVILLE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE: $600k → 14%NASHVILLE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE: $250k → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $200k → 14%VOLUNTEER SCHOOLS DBA NASHVILLE INCUBATOR: $500k → 14%VOLUNTEER SCHOOLS DBA NASHVILLE INCUBATOR: $500k → 14%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 28 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
26

Total granted

$24M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+59%

Still filing today

89%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentReligionOther

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

  • PF
    PENCIL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +8%
  • KN
    KIPP NASHVILLE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +20%
  • NC
    NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PI
    PAHARA INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +59%
  • NS
    NASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +38%
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +66%

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

04Your 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
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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2
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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3
Purpose Preparatory Academy Inc

Through rigorous curriculum, high-quality instruction, and positive character development, purpose preparatory academy charter school ensures that all kindergarten through grade four students achieve the academic skills, knowledge, and…

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4
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education

The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…

Education
5
Episcopal School of Nashville

The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.

Education
6
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
7
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
8
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
9
Memphis Rise Academy Inc

To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.

Education
10
Tennessee Geographic Alliance

Education

Education
11
Leadership Preparatory Inc Leadership Prerparatory Charter School

Leadership preparatory charter school is an academically challenging, disciplined, supportive, and joyful school. our mission isa to provide k-8 students with the academic and character foundation necessary to excel in high school,…

Education
12
Valor Collegiate Academies

To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Joe C Davis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%16%<5yr14%22%5–10yr17%33%10–20yr13%11%20–35yr11%11%35–55yr24%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%9%<5yr14%19%5–10yr17%30%10–20yr13%19%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr24%4%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,333

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 67 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,590,867 · EducationNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,780,000 · EducationMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INCPENCIL FOUNDATION — $2,126,113 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATIONKIPP NASHVILLE — $1,667,153 · EducationKIPP NASHVILLENASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,250,469 · EducationNASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOLPREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,083,110 · EducationTNACHIEVES — $1,063,110 · EducationVOLUNTEER SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $1,000,000 · EducationNashville Charter Collaborative — $850,000 · EducationLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $850,000 · Education+26 more — $6,079,239 · Education+26 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $577,823 · OtherPAHARA INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 · OtherMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY — $192,975 · OtherEDUCATION FIRST CONSULTING LLC — $160,000 · OtherMOTLOW STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $88,440 · OtherSHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS — $83,500 · OtherJOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION — $66,500 · OtherTIPTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION — $61,796 · Other+13 more — $328,961 · OtherThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $790,645 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $700,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMaslow Development Inc — $542,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · Community ImprovementNEW VENTURE FUND — $150,385 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $25,000 · Religion
Education$23,340,061Other$1,809,995Philanthropy$1,715,645Community Improvement$632,000Environment$165,385Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $3,590,867 over 8y, 48% of budgetMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,780,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $2,126,113 over 3y, 23% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE — $1,667,153 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,250,469 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,083,110 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTNACHIEVES — $1,063,110 over 4y, 26% of budgetVOLUNTEER SCHOOLS — $1,000,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $1,000,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetNashville Charter Collaborative — $850,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $850,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc — $790,645 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMEMPHIS LIFT PARENT INSTITUTE — $699,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC — $592,040 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetAVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $583,332 over 3y, 17% of budgetMaslow Development Inc — $542,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetPERSIST NASHVILLE — $464,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetNISWONGER FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPIVOT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT LEADERS — $350,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetLittle Wonders Early Learning Center — $300,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAHARA INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTENNESSEE CAREER ACADEMY — $206,610 over 1y, 32% of budgetNASHVILLE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONTESSORI ELEMENTARY AT HIGHLAND PARK — $170,268 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetKNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $166,650 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSouthwest Tennessee Community College Foundation — $165,640 over 2y, 19% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER — $163,699 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSTEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $163,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTAS SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS — $160,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $150,385 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE PROPEL PARENT INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINVICTUS NASHVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL — $125,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCHATTACADEMY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC — $120,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetMAN UP TEACHER FELLOWS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVanderbilt University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Teacher Residency — $80,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION — $66,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTREPID COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTennessee Nature Academy — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSchoolSeed Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

City FundJoe C Davis FoundationCharter Fund Inc D/B/…Scarlett Family Found…Bill and Crissy Hasla…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…New Schools FundDollar General Litera…Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Gates Foundation50can Inc
City FundOR50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: City Fund · Joe C Davis Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Scarlett Family Foundation · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · New Schools Fund · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Gates Foundation · 50can Inc

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 Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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