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The Highlander Charter School

Using innovative education practices as a catalyst for social change, highlander charter school ensures that all children have the opportunity and support necessary to meet their full potential.

$366k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Education$408kHealth$334kHuman Services$97kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
$65,100
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER CORP$125,309
MEETING STREET$86,317
THRIVE BEHAVORIAL HEALTH INC$65,100
OCEAN STATE ACADEMY CRANSTON LLC$49,248
LIFESPAN SCHOOL SOLUTIONS ICN$32,482
LEARNWELL$6,174
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ACCESS POINT RI: $68k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$536k · 5 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$536k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+62%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Meeting Street
    4× · 2022–2025 · $234k · revenue +22%
  • SR
    SARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $173k · revenue +16%
  • THRIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $87k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AR
    ACCESSPOINT RI
    one grant, 2024 · $68k · revenue +6%
  • SE
    SPECIALIZED EDUCATION OF RI INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $52k
  • CS
    CRANSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $38k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tides Family Services Inc

Tides family services, inc. is a not-for-profit social services agency focusing on addressing the needs of children at risk. since its incorporation in 1983, tides has promoted family preservation and maintenance of youth within their…

Human Services
2
United Cerebral Palsy of Rhode Island Inc

The mission of United Cerebral Palsy of Rhode Island is to "advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of individuals with cerebral palsy and other disabilities." This mission is accomplished in part through the provision…

Health
3
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
4
The Providence Center Inc

The providence center helps adults, adolescents and children affected by psychiatric illnesses, emotional problems and addictions by providing treatment and supportive services within a community setting. since 1969, the providence center…

Health
5
Solutions Behavioral Healthcare Professionals Pc

Our mission is to provide high quality, accessible mental health and human services which are:-Rooted in the belief that change is possible-Person-centered and designed to empower independence-Technically sound and informed by…

Health
6
Care Transformation Collaborative of Ri

The mission of ctc-ri is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in rhode island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. ctc-ri brings together critical…

Health
7
Maine Behavioral Health Organization

The mission of maine behavioral health organization is to provide evidence based services leading to increased quality of life; through research, advocacy, education, operated services, and participation in public mental health policy…

Health
8
Center for Developmental Disabilities

The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.

Human Services
9
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
10
New York Institute for Special Education

The mission of the new york institute for special education is to provide quality educational programs and support to students and families in a safe caring environment to awaken and inspire student curiosity, lifelong learning and…

Education
11
Melmark New England Inc

Melmark new england, is a multi state human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark new england is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals…

Education
12
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accesspoint Ri and the most unlike its peers is Northern Rhode Island Collaborative. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Meeting Street — $234,431 · HealthMeeting StreetTHRIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $86,672 · HealthTHRIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $172,635 · EducationSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INCEAST BAY EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $34,000 · EducationEAST BAY EDUCATION COLLABORATIVELifespan School Solutions Inc dba The Bradley School — $32,482 · EducationLifespan School Solutions Inc dba The…Northern Rhode Island Collaborative — $29,438 · EducationNorthern Rhode Island CollaborativeYOUTHBUILD PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $20,000 · EducationYOUTHBUILD PREPARATORY ACADEMYSPECIALIZED EDUCATION OF RI INC — $52,198 · OtherSPECIALIZED EDUCATION…OCEAN STATE ACADEMY CRANSTON LLC — $49,248 · OtherOCEAN STATE ACADEMY C…CRANSTON SCHOOL DEPARTMENT — $37,752 · OtherCRANSTON SCHOOL DEPAR…LEARNWELL — $12,611 · OtherLEARNWELLCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND — $9,034 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF …ACCESSPOINT RI — $68,146 · Human ServicesACCESSPOINT …FAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $28,466 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…
Health$321,103Education$288,555Other$160,843Human Services$96,612

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMeeting Street — $234,431 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSARGENT REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $172,635 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHRIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $86,672 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACCESSPOINT RI — $68,146 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $34,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNorthern Rhode Island Collaborative — $29,438 over 3y, 13% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $28,466 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Rhode Island IncRI21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · The Beacon Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Highlander Charter School 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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