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We Can Learn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$477k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$439k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$3.8MHealth$164kInternational$85kHuman Services$77kYouth Development$73kHousing & Shelter$22k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $250k+1 grant · $439k
$3,707
Median grant
7
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE$439,375
HOPE ACADEMY SCHOOLS EBCM$14,407
ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL$7,169
EMMANUEL INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE JOS$4,807
KIDS ON POINT$3,707
PROJECT BUILD$3,607
RAISING EXPECTATIONS$2,797
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$714
KIM'S OPEN DOOR$707
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Child Help: $52k → 11%PROJECT BUILD: $4k → 10%CHILD HELP: $22k → 11%CHILD HELP: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MA
CA
AZ
TN
SC
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 8 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$4.2M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • A
    ALIGHT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +22%
  • EY
    EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
  • KO
    KIDS ON POINT INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SUCCESS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • Family Biz Builder
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
2
The Peer Power Foundation Inc

Peer power foundation hires, trains, and deploys college students to be success coaches in economically disadvantaged high schools. (expanded mission on schedule o)these success coaches work primarily inside of english, math, and science…

Education
3
Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme

Project extreme provides innovative programming and solutions for teens in -need, their families and communities. project extreme uses a combination of experiential and intellectual learning opportunities to provide the social, educational…

Youth Development
4
The Young People's Project Inc

The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.

Education
5
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
6
Bearings Bike Shop Inc

The organization's mission is to put the right tools in the hands of youth enabling them to advance their skills to build productive lives.

Human Services
7
King Street Center Inc

King street center empowers youth to explore their talents and find their voice through learning, play, and opportunity.

Human Services
8
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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9
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc

To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…

Education
10
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
11
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
12
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raising Expectations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Care Fresno 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $2,205,568 · EducationTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE+3 more: $16,647 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH: $1,580,019 · OtherBREAKTHROUGHSt Jude Research Hospital: $163,569 · OtherSt Jude Research Hospital+4 more: $42,070 · OtherALIGHT: $85,080 · InternationalCHILDHELP INC: $77,012 · Human ServicesPROJECT BUILD SWFL: $3,607 · Human ServicesEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $29,597 · Youth Development+1 more: $707 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS ON POINT INC: $26,257 · Recreation & Sports
Education$2,222,215Other$1,785,658International$85,080Human Services$80,619Youth Development$30,304Recreation & Sports$26,257

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: $2,205,568 over 2y, 38% of budgetALIGHT: $85,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $77,012 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $29,597 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $26,257 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCARE FRESNO INC: $21,856 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Biz Builder: $3,850 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPROJECT BUILD SWFL: $3,607 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAISING EXPECTATIONS INC: $2,797 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIM'S OPEN DOOR INC: $707 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization We Can Learn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We Can Learn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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