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The New Common School Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to explore the promotion of excellence in education, both public and private, with the expanded use of volunteers and tutors, the development of funding sources, the transformation of teaching and learning, the formation of character in the jesuit tradition of holiness, and seeking efforts to develop one or…

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$3.4MReligion$1.1MPhilanthropy$300kYouth Development$88kCommunity Improvement$30k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
$270,168
Median grant
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRO ECCLESIA SANCTA$1,000,000
CORNERSTONE EDUCATION GROUP$932,761
JEFFERSON DOUGLAS ACADEMY$502,885
MADISON CARVER ACADEMY$270,168
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$75,000
YOUTH MENTORING WORLDWIDE INC$37,848
DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORGANIZATIONS$30,000
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION & PEACE$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN CHESTERTON SOCIETY: $5k → 11%SCWAUB FUND FOR CHARITABLE: $75k → 13%CORNERSTONE EDUCATION GROUP: $1.2M → 8%YOUTH MENTORING WORLDWIDE INC: $38k → 13%CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOC: $57k → 21%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $75k → 13%CORNERSTONE EDUCATION GROUP: $367k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $75k → 13%THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 8%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
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
Foundation for Catholic Secondary Education of Greater Grand Rapids Inc

The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities

Education
2
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc

In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.

3
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Chesterton Academy of Atlanta Inc

The corporation will serve to establish and direct a classical high schoolgrounded in the catholic faith in western cobb county, georgia, usa.

Education
6
Global Scholars

Global scholars exists so that christian academics are adequately equipped to have a redemptive influence among their students, colleagues, universities and disciplines, at a reasonable cost.

7
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
8
California Charter Schools Association Advocates

To increase the involvement of the charter school community in the political process, create a pipeline of charter school supporters and activitists, endorse and support public officials who are committed to california charter public…

Education
9
Cornerstone Christian Schools

Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.

Education
10
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

12
Axiom Christian Classical School

To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pro Ecclesia Sancta of California. 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

12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER — $2,537,697 · OtherTHREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERJEFFERSON DOUGLAS ACADEMY — $502,885 · OtherJEFFERSON DOUGLAS ACADEMYMADISON CARVER ACADEMY — $270,168 · OtherMADISON CARVER ACADEMY+1 more — $11,850 · OtherPRO ECCLESIA SANCTA OF CALIFORNIA — $1,000,000 · ReligionPRO ECCLESIA SANCTA OF C…CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 · ReligionDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $57,457 · EducationHARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE — $25,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING WORLDWIDE INC — $75,696 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,322,600Religion$1,050,000Philanthropy$330,000Education$82,457Youth Development$75,696Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING WORLDWIDE INC — $75,696 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $57,457 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Catholic Foundation of MichiganMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 New Common School Foundation 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The New Common School Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The New Common School 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.

    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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