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The Snapdragon Book Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$10k
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 FY20202025.

Education$579kReligion$18kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dale Junior High School$10,000
Harrison Elementary Promise Academy$10,000
Academia Antonia Alonso Charter$10,000
Altoona School$10,000
Joe Harrison Carter Elementary$8,000
Individual grant recipient$6,920
Owen Middle School$6,844
North Hartsville Elementary School$6,537
Individual grant recipient$6,500
Woodland Jr Sr High School$6,100
Mt Vernon Enola School District$5,000
Holmes Elementary$5,000
Pathways$5,000
Harbor Creek School District$3,600
North Fork High School$3,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Holmes Elementary: $5k → 11%Academia Antonia Alonso Charter: $10k → 10%Academia Cesar Chavez Charter Schoo: $12k → 14%Brockton School District: $13k → 24%Dale Junior High School: $10k → 10%Dennis G Earl Elementary: $5k → 15%PAVE Academy Charter School: $5k → 20%Mott Hall Science and Technology: $15k → 28%Pathways: $5k → 10%Life School Oak Cliff Elementary: $5k → 14%Burnett Elementary: $5k → 16%Meeker Public School: $5k → 15%Ator Heights Elementary: $5k → 15%Mission Elementary: $10k → 19%Jane Edwards Elementary: $7k → 12%North Hartsville Elementary School: $7k → 21%Lower Lee Elementary: $7k → 28%Mt Vernon Enola School District: $5k → 15%Savoy Elementary School: $6k → 14%Altoona School: $10k → 10%Whispering Pines Education Center: $10k → 13%Grant Wood Elementary School: $5k → 9%West Utica Elementary: $10k → 10%Elsanor Elementary School: $20k → 12%Crater Renaissance Academy: $7k → 13%Durant Road Elementary School: $10k → 8%Owen Middle School: $7k → 12%Fairview Elementary Artful Learning: $6k → 18%Madison Comprehensive High School: $6k → 15%Madison Elementary: $10k → 15%Talcott Elementary School: $7k → 23%Longwood Elementary: $20k → 14%Saint Joseph Pro-Cathedral School: $8k → 12%Saint Benedict Catholic School: $6k → 22%Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe: $18k → 42%Collegiate Academies: $20k → 23%Harrison Elementary Promise Academy: $10k → 15%Russell Springs Elementary School: $10k → 20%Joe Harrison Carter Elementary: $8k → 21%Elkhorn City Elementary: $10k → 25%Woodland Jr Sr High School: $6k → 16%Buffalo Collegiate Charter: $14k → 13%North Shore Middle School: $8k → 16%Stapleton School: $10k → 12%Austin East Magnet High School: $10k → 12%Millington Primary School: $10k → 17%Audubon Schools: $10k → 23%Delta Elementary: $7k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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.

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The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
2
Alliance Charter Academy

Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.

Education
3
Multicultural Academy Charter School

It is the mission of the multicultural academy charter school to educate the whole child by providing a safe environment where students can learn and teachers can instruct while emphasizing the importance of parental involvement in the…

Education
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Academy of Collaborative Education

Public charter school

Education
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The Park Academy

Park academy provides an inclusive community where evidence-based practices empower students with dyslexia and related learning differences to reach their highest academic and personal potential.

Education
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American Leadership Academy - Charlotte

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
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Emblaze Academy Charter School

Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…

Education
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Ambition Preparatory Charter School

Through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work, ambition preparatory charter school ensures that all students in kindergarten through grade eight have academic skills and self-discipline for college and life…

Education
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Minnesota Transitions Charter School

We are a student-centered learning community that inspires and supports all learners to achieve excellence through equitable, relevant learning experiences.

Education
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Pathways High Inc

To unleash all learners' potential. now.

Education
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Pacific Coast Academy

Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.

Education
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Vega Collegiate Academy

Vega Collegiate Academy is designed with an extended school day and a slightly longer school year focusing on developing strong skills in literacy and math. It executes an academically rigorous curriculum aligned with common core standards…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate Academies and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Adult Living Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherElsanor Elementary School — $20,000 · Other+99 more — $494,523 · Other+99 moreCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES — $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGIAT…ACADEMIAS LA PAZ — $12,000 · EducationACADEMIAS…ALTOONA SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationALTOONA S…PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationPAVE ACAD…+1 more — $774 · EducationPATHWAYS ADULT LIVING INC — $5,000 · Health
Other$534,523Education$47,774Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMIAS LA PAZ — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALTOONA SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS Durant Road Elementary School — $9,891 over 1y, 17% of budgetPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc — $774 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES
  • Who funds ACADEMIAS LA PAZ
  • Who funds ALTOONA SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS Durant Road Elementary School
  • Who funds PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Snapdragon Book 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Snapdragon Book Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Snapdragon Book 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 107 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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