· Public charity
The College-Ready Promise
The organization's purpose is to increase college-ready graduation rates by increasing the number and distribution of highly effective teachers in schools and classrooms serving low-income and minority students.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRIVE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| PUC-LVT | $100,000 |
| UPLIFT EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| THE NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS | $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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 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 FY2018, 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
- PTPARTNERSHIPS TO UPLIFT COMMUNITIES LAKEVIEW TERRACE2× · 2017–2018 · $290k · revenue +40%
- SPStrive Preparatory Schools2× · 2017–2018 · $147k · revenue +155%
- APASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MCMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -40%
- GDGreen Dot Public Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $93k · revenue +55%
- DSDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue ×14
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.
Ascend College Prep is a public high school for 10-12th grade students in Colorado Springs and the surrounding area. Our Mission is to "Prepare and inspire students to become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through rigorous…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
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…
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
To develop & manage high quality charter schools in densely populated urban communities with overcrowded & low achieving schools.vision: to facilitate school reform within lausd through a regional approach currently focused on the…
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.
Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…
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…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
Ararat charter is committed to educating students to their full potential in an environment that actively engages students in relevant programs and expected school wide learning results and standards.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspire Public Schools and the most unlike its peers is Mastery Charter Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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 PARTNERSHIPS TO UPLIFT COMMUNITIES LAKEVIEW TERRACE ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Broad Center · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Project Lead the Way Inc · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 College-Ready Promise 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to The College-Ready Promise through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.