· Private foundation
Wonderful Foundations
BY MEETING STUDENTS EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE AND TAILORING THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE TO THEIR PARTICULAR NEEDS, CHARTER SCHOOLS OFFER A PROVEN PATH FOR KIDS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYNE PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $60,965 |
| IMAGINE SCHOOL AT TOWN CENTER LLC | $57,800 |
| RICHMOND CHARTER ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| IMAGINE SCHOOL AT PALMER RANCH | $21,000 |
| IMAGINE AVONDALE ELEMENTARY INC | $18,500 |
| KID'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $16,500 |
| IMAGINE PREP COOLIDGE INC | $16,500 |
| IMAGINE COOLIDGE ELEMENTARY INC | $14,500 |
| IMAGINE PREP SUPERSTITION INC | $14,500 |
| SANDHILLS THEATRE ARTS RENAISSANCE SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| KCC ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTHEAST COUNTY INC | $12,000 |
| DESERT SAGE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Wonderful Foundations’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WPWAYNE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +26%
- IPIMAGINE PREP COOLIDGE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $87k · revenue +4%
- ISIMAGINE SCHOOLS NON-PROFIT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $84k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- APAMETHOD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +18%
- FAFIT ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +56%
- ISIMAGINE SCHOOL AT SOUTH INDIAN RIVER COUNTY LLCone grant, 2022 · $28k
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.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
Imagine camelback aspires to address the needs of individual students by establishing a rigorous learning environment and character education in a safe and secure atmosphere through partnerships with parents, community and stakeholders.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.
Kids community college is a nationally accredited (nac, nca-casi, advanced) premier provider of high quality nurturing and learning environments that prepare 9-12 students to excel developmentally and academically using howard gardners…
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
The mission of independence charter school (iacs) is to educate students of diverse ages and backgrounds - helping them understand, thrive in, and enhance our community, our environment,and our world. iacs regards learning as a continuing…
To operate a not for profit charter school and conduct educational research, evaluation, and development activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imagine Prep Coolidge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Desert Star Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 WAYNE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE PREP COOLIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE SCHOOLS NON-PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE AVONDALE ELEMENTARYINC ↗
- Who funds KID'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS INTEGRITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE COOLIDGE ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE PREP SUPERSTITION INC ↗
- Who funds AMETHOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FIT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG LEARNING ADMINISTRATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REX AND MARGARET FORTUNE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds KID'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTHEAST COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Desert Star Academy ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Imagine Schools Non-Profit 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 Wonderful Foundations 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Wonderful Foundations?
Find your warmest path to Wonderful Foundations 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.