· Public charity
The Broad Center
Our mission is to raise student achievement by recruiting, training and supporting leadership talent from across america to transform urban school systems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS | $38,743 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA | $36,000 |
| TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS | $27,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $19,500 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY | $18,800 |
| KIPP TEXAS INC | $18,500 |
| KIPP NASHVILLE | $18,500 |
| DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INC | $18,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC | $10,000 |
| PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE | $10,000 |
| OFFICE OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT DC | $10,000 |
| HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| KIPP DC INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2021, 31 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- USUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $142k · revenue +67%
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS3× · 2018–2020 · $140k · revenue +120%
- KDKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS4× · 2018–2021 · $134k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- KIKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Incone grant, 2018 · $30k
- KSKIPP SAN ANTONIO INCone grant, 2018 · $30k
- OUOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
KIPP Indy is a network of tuition-free, open-enrollment, college preparatory, public charter schools. KIPP Indy's mission is to create a network of schools that provides educationally underserved children with a rigorous education that…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
Kipp academy's mission is to operate schools that will help students develop their academic and character skills they need to be successful in high school and college, to be self-sufficient in the competitive world beyond, and to build a…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
To ensure that students develop the academic skills, intellectual habits, and character traits needed to succeed in the top quality high schools, colleges and the competitive world beyond.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Mission: together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose- college, career, and beyond- so they can lead…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Harlem Tutorial Program 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 19 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 68 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.
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 UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STEM PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Kindezi School Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
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: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Good Sports Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Round It Up America Inc · Kipp Foundation · Save the Music Foundation · Share Our Strength
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 Broad Center 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.
- Achievement First Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kipp Jacksonville Inc — 0% 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.