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The Founders Academy Foundation

To support the establishment of new charter schools and to help provide support to the ongoing operations of charter schools operating in the state of new hampshire.

$1.3M
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
3
Organizations funded FY2022
67%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$485,825
Largest grant, FY2022
$752,687
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$5.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 67% of the organizations The Founders Academy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $759k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20223$1.2M67%
FY20212$457k0%
FY20202$126k50%
FY20192$18k50%
FY20171$650n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$1.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies$1,010,825451%
Lionheart Classical Academy Chartered Public School$752,687250%
The Founders Academy Public Charter School$61,81671%
Windham Academy$15,0001n/a
Gathering Waters Chartered Public School$6,25010%

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How do I get to The Founders Academy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Founders Academy Foundation 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.

About The Founders Academy Foundation

How much does The Founders Academy Foundation give?
The Founders Academy Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,252,911 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Founders Academy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Founders Academy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies ($1.0M), Lionheart Classical Academy Chartered Public School ($753k), The Founders Academy Public Charter School ($62k).
Does The Founders Academy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Founders Academy Foundation based?
The Founders Academy Foundation is based in NH.

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 5 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $17k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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