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· Public charity
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE
Provide academic, college-access, and peer-mentoring programs to help under-resourced students succeed
$48k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants
4
Communities
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.
Education$196kOther$10k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
programming
2022
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2023
success networkednetworked improvement
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK$11,500
- ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
- BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS$10,000
- BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON$10,000
02The need
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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.
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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 61% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Bosque School
Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…
Education
2
Davidson Day School
Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…
Education
3
The Berkeley School
A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.
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4
Mark Day School
See schedule oinnovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive…
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5
Austin Trinity School
Our independent school provides an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment.
Education
6
Brunswick School Inc
Brunswick is an independent college-preparatory day school for boys in grades pre-k through 12. students succeed by annually advancing matriculation, culminating with a 100% placement record for senior boys at nationally recognized, highly…
Education
7
Spartanburg Day School
Sds is a college preparatory, co-educational day school for students in grades 3-k through 12.
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8
Flintridge Preparatory School
Independent, coeducational day school for grades 7-12, committed to creating an environment that values ethical and emotional development as equally important to intellectual development.
Education
9
Berkshire Country Day School
Co-educational private day school grades pre-k through 8, encouraging academic excellence, individual promise and responsible citizenship
Education
10
The Buckley School
The organization is an independent co-educational, college preparatory day school.
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Fund for the New School
Boulder country day school provides a well-rounded education of academic excellence and character development in a safe environment, empowering our students to reach their full potential as lifelong learners and responsible, globally aware…
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12
Edmund Burke School Inc
Edmund burke school is a coed, college-preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12. the school combines rigorous curriculum with small classes and personal attention.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Day School and the most unlike its peers is Kent Denver Country Day School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$195,700Other$10,000
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 BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER 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.
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA16.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER BOSTON.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043307783 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER BOSTON, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Breakthrough Collaborative?
Find your warmest path to The Breakthrough Collaborative through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines