· Public charity
The Breakthrough Collaborative
Breakthrough collaborative works with motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH KENT DENVER | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH NORFOLK | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CINNCINNATI | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH FORT WORTH | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SACRAMENTO | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Breakthrough Collaborative’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- BBREAKTHROUGH4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +73%
- BNBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $67k · revenue +23%
- SMST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- BMBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +97%
- SASEWICKLEY ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +22%
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.
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The breakthrough public schools mission is to provide cleveland area scholars with an education that empowers them to lead lives full of impact and opportunity.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough Louisville Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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.
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 BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Houston ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
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: Fidelity Foundation · The Malone Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · New York Life Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
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.