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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.

$425k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$722kYouth Development$25kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH CINNCINNATI$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH SAN FRANCISCO$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH KENT DENVER$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH SACRAMENTO$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH PHILADELPHIA$25,000
THE WHEELER SCHOOL$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW ORLEANS$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY$25,000
BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER BOSTON: $60k → 8%BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES: $25k → 14%SEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $6k → 11%BREAKTHROUGH PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%ST MARGARET'S OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $35k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH SACRAMENTO: $25k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK: $30k → 17%BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS: $60k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH FORT WORTH: $25k → 11%BREAKTHROUGH HOUSTON: $25k → 16%BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE: $25k → 12%BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI: $6k → 15%THE WHEELER SCHOOL: $25k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $25k → 13%BREAKTHROUGH KENT DENVER: $25k → 8%BREAKTHROUGH CINNCINNATI: $25k → 16%BREAKTHROUGH NORFOLK: $25k → 19%BREAKTHROUGH NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%BREAKTHROUGH MANCHESTER: $25k → 7%BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE: $25k → 15%BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON: $37k → 8%ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $10k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK: $25k → 17%BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS: $30k → 10%SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $6k → 12%THE WHEELER SCHOOL: $6k → 14%KENT DENVER SCHOOL: $6k → 8%BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $6k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK: $12k → 17%BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS: $10k → 10%BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER BOSTON: $6k → 8%BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS: $6k → 10%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

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MN
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MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
NM
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Breakthrough Collaborative’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 12%.

The Breakthrough Collaborativelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 8 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$461k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+97%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +73%
  • BN
    BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $67k · revenue +23%
  • SM
    ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • BM
    BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +97%
  • SA
    SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +22%
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.

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Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education
2
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
3
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
6
Mark Day School

Innovative 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 communities.

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Bridgton Academy

To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
10
Breakthrough Public Schools

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.

Education
11
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
12
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $112,600 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INCBREAKTHROUGH: $105,600 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $66,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INCSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $40,250 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOLSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,500 · EducationFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $25,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Cities: $25,000 · EducationISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationBreakthrough Houston: $25,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherST MARGARE…THE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE DERRYF…Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$652,450Other$70,000Community Improvement$25,000Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $112,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $105,600 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC: $66,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $40,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $5,500 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.

Fidelity FoundationThe Malone Family Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…New York Life Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…United Way WorldwideAmerican Endowment Fo…
Fidelity FoundationMA18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Breakthrough Collaborative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Breakthrough Collaborative. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 22 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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