· Private foundation
The Drexel Fund
THE DREXEL FUND IS A VENTURE PHILANTHROPY FUND THAT INVESTS AND PARTNERS IN THE GROWTH OF HIGH QUALITY, FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS OF FAITH BASED OR OTHER PRIVATE SCHOOLS Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $275,000 |
| CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| THE MEANING FOUNDATION (PRIMER) | $195,000 |
| CRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| DUBUQUE DREAM CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| THE BASILICA SCHOOL OF ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA | $150,000 |
| CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| LAB SCHOOL OF MEMPHIS INC | $124,000 |
| YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM TORAS EMES | $100,000 |
| COOLANU INC | $100,000 |
| ICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL CLEVELAND | $100,000 |
| ICON PREPARATORY JAX AND TAMPA | $100,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $100,000 |
| SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $95,000 |
| CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HS NC | $93,750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +113% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- FFFUGEES FAMILY INC4× · 2018–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +159% · 83% of their budget
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORK5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +211%
- TOThe Oaks Academy Inc3× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +114%
Funded once
- KPKINGDOM PREPone grant, 2018 · $500k
- CRCRISTO REY TAMPA HIGH SCHOOL AT MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS INCone grant, 2017 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
Guided by Christian faith, St. Therese Academy guides students with Montessori, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and classical principles to live out the gospel message, achieve academic excellence, and joyfulluy lead by faith, virtue and…
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…
In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.
Education - private christian school grades k-12
As a classical christian school, st. stephen's academy aims to provide an academically excellent education in a grace-filled environment that develops christian character and equips students with tools of learning that will last a…
Regina luminis academy is a private, independent school grades pre-k through 12, founded, with the help of gods grace, to assist parents in the education and formation of their children by providing a classical liberal arts education in…
Liberty classical academy is an independent private school offering college-preparatory academics and christian faith in the classical tradition for minneapolis-st. paul students in preschool and kindergarten through the 12th grade.
The mission of vision academy charter school is to prepare students in kindergarten through 8th grade to become responsible and articulate students and citizens by using a comprehensive curriculum designed to foster academic success and…
The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners and the most unlike its peers is Generation Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 137 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 FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds JULIE BILLIART NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MISSION NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds BUILD UP ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECCLESIAL SCHOOLS INITIATIVE IN ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY MIAMI HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATHEARTS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds COOLANU INC MELNICK ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY ORANGE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey St Viator Las Vegas Work Study ↗
- Who funds STARS AUTISM SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINK SCHOOL ↗
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: Cristo Rey Network · The Center for Education Reform · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund · Pwc Foundation Inc · City Forward Collective Inc · The Howley Foundation · The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc
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 Drexel Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Icon Preparatory School Inc — 22% of income from government
- Impact Christian Academy — 7% of income from government
- Stars Autism Schools Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Autism Inspired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 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.