· Private foundation
The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORS CHOOSEORG | $130,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 14 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $260k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2021–2022 · $26k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2022–2023 · $11k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
Our mission at Peninsula Preparatory Academy is to motivate and inspire students tobecome curious lifelong learners and critical thinkers. We aim to empower ourstudents to achieve their full potential by offering a rigorous and…
Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…
The international leadership charter high school will implement an academically rigorous college preparatory curriculum that will elevate students' intellectual capacity, provide a superior high school education to prepare our scholars for…
The mission of jersey city community charter school (jcccs) is to provide each student with innovative learning experiences that develop positive intellectual, social, and physical outcomes. jcccs is focused on promoting self-directed,…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 260 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Flag Foundation for Excellence in Education. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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