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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.

$376k
Granted FY2021
25
Grants FY2021
15
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Education$5.5M
02FY2021 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k8 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $302k
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS$38,743
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$36,000
CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS$27,000
TULSA PUBLIC 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
TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY$10,000
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $50k → 10%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $94k → 16%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $78k → 22%SAN JOSE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $80k → 8%KIPP LA SCHOOLS: $33k → 14%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $54k → 20%UPLIFT EDUCATION: $68k → 14%TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $170k → 15%KIPP DC INC: $57k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS: $65k → 11%MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $89k → 15%KIPP NASHVILLE: $37k → 14%SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $45k → 17%HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $43k → 8%INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $89k → 16%CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $55k → 14%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $78k → 22%SAN JOSE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $48k → 8%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $34k → 20%UPLIFT EDUCATION: $38k → 14%TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $118k → 15%KIPP DC INC: $36k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS: $64k → 11%MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $59k → 15%HENRY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $42k → 8%DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $106k → 12%NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $45k → 14%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $40k → 22%UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $64k → 17%TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $69k → 15%PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOLS: $39k → 11%DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $92k → 12%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $36k → 22%ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $41k → 7%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $79k → 10%UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $62k → 17%MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $105k → 22%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $46k → 10%DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $81k → 14%EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM: $50k → 17%EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM: $50k → 17%CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $64k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $45k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $52k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $45k → 14%ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $59k → 14%EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $47k → 14%EQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $47k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 56 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2021, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
12

Total granted

$5.3M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+51%

Still filing today

61%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $142k · revenue +67%
  • KB
    KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $140k · revenue +120%
  • KD
    KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
    4× · 2018–2021 · $134k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • KI
    KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • KS
    KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • EC
    EXCELLENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +150%
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.

1
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
2
Kipp Indianapolis Inc

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…

Education
3
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
4
Leadership Public Schools

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.

Education
5
Kipp Academy Charter School

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…

Education
6
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
7
Democracy Prep Public Schools

To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Arts & Culture
8
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

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…

Education
9
Elite Public Schools

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…

Education
10
Kipp San Diego

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.

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11
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
12
Kipp Capital Region Public Charter Schools

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $383,395 · OtherTULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLSSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $231,750 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIADenver Public Schools: $229,350 · OtherDenver Public SchoolsDreyfoos School of the Arts: $200,633 · OtherDreyfoos School of the ArtsCHICAGO CONNECTED: $190,200 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDMIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $163,350 · OtherMIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSCITY OF BOSTON: $155,131 · OtherCITY OF BOSTONGraystone Elementary School: $144,143 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $139,950 · OtherLOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $127,225 · OtherEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $115,500 · OtherHenry County Board of Education: $106,000 · Other+18 more: $717,308 · Other+18 moreUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $141,900 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $140,250 · EducationKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLSMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $135,630 · EducationKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $134,050 · EducationDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $113,850 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $113,050 · EducationEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $109,313 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATION: $106,425 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $103,950 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $102,350 · EducationACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $89,100 · EducationDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $86,850 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $85,500 · Education+25 more: $1,102,429 · Education+25 more
Other$2,903,935Education$2,564,647

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $141,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $140,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $135,630 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $134,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $115,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $113,850 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $113,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $109,313 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $106,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL CHARTER SCHOOLS: $103,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $102,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $89,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $86,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $85,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $85,025 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $81,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE: $74,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $66,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetALPHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $66,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $64,944 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC: $59,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc: $59,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC: $47,025 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $46,035 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT SCHOOLS INC: $44,550 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINTRINSIC SCHOOLS: $44,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $44,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST DENVER INNOVATION ZONE: $40,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc: $29,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $29,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP SAN ANTONIO INC: $29,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP MEMPHIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCELLENCE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC: $16,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $15,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP NEW YORK INC: $15,345 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE SCHOOLS: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PREPARATORY SCHOOLS: $14,850 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Project Lead the Way …For Inspiration and R…Good Sports IncProject Lead the Way …GenYOUTH IncorporatedThe Mr Holland's Opus…Rockefeller Philanthr…Round It Up America I…Kipp FoundationSave the Music Founda…Share Our Strength
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO61× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Achievement First Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kipp Jacksonville Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 68 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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