· Public charity
Uncommon Schools Inc
Uncommon schools starts and operates outstanding urban public schools that close the college completion gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $250k+8 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNCOMMON NEW YORK CITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $3,478,803 |
| ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,580,454 |
| NORTH STAR ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $1,991,080 |
| CAMDEN PREP FOUNDATION INC | $1,830,305 |
| NORTH STAR ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,392,626 |
| ROXBURY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL | $467,156 |
| CAMDEN PREP | $332,957 |
| ROCHESTER PREP FOUNDATION INC | $308,912 |
| ROXBURY PREP FOUNDATION INC | $11,458 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- CPCAMDEN PREP FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $16M · revenue +130% · 72% of their budget
- UNUNCOMMON NEW YORK CITY CHARTER SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +39%
- CPCAMDEN PREP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +392%
Funded once
- NSNJ STUDENTS SUCCEED INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of unity preparatory charter school of brooklyn is to empower students as scholars and citizens so they may lead fulfilling academic, personal, and professional lives.
The mission of university prep charter high school is to prepare students for success in college, leadership and life. university prep charter high school will achieve this mission by creating a small, college-preparatory high school where…
To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.
Uncommon schools starts and operates outstanding urban public schools that close the college completion gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college. uncommon schools serves over 20,000 students in 52…
The founding group and board of trustees have a core belief that students who have left high school before graduations, or who have not had academic success in a traditional school environment, have the right to a free and appropriate…
To provide historically disadvantaged students with the college and career readiness skills needed to become responsible and engaged citizens for social justice.capital prep charter schools ny strives to ensure that all students are able…
To educate responsible citizen-scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.
Serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, brooklyn prospect pairs students with excellent teachers in a college preparatory environment using the international baccalaureate program. we prepare students to become global citizens and help…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence they need to pursue the paths they choose-college, career, and beyond-so they can lead fulfilling…
To provide students in rochester, new york with a safe, supportive, and intellectually challenging eductional environment.
North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Prep Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nj Students Succeed Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CAMDEN PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON NEW YORK CITY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN PREP INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON LENDER INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH TROY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHO ↗
- Who funds NJ STUDENTS SUCCEED INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Uncommon Schools Inc 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.
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.