Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
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About Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
Charter School Growth Fund is focused on accelerating the expansion and capacity of charter school networks, making large, targeted investments to enable new schools and scale existing high-performing operators. Their grants concentrate on charter school development and growth, with a clear geographic emphasis on Texas and Colorado and preference for organizations that build network capacity or support replication and facility expansion. The foundation favors funding established charter management organizations and intermediary funds that can deploy capital at scale to open or grow schools.
Focus Areas
Charter school network expansion in TexasCharter school capacity-building and replication (operator development/intermediaries)Charter school growth and facility/expansion support in ColoradoGrowth-stage charter management organizations (CMOs) scaling operations
Who They Fund
charter schools (individual schools)charter school networks/management organizationsK-12 students served by charter schoolscharter school leaders and teachers
About Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund
A $8.6 million grant to Success Academy Charter Schools Inc is the largest recent award in the dataset, and it fits the foundation’s broader pattern of backing charter school networks as they add schools and expand capacity. Charter Fund Inc D/b/a Charter School Growth Fund directs most of its grantmaking to charter growth, with a portfolio that includes both operating support for school networks and capacity-building for intermediary organizations that help replication scale. Recent large awards also include $7 million to Colorado Schools Fund for charter school capacity-building and $5 million to Texas Charter School Development Inc for the same purpose, showing that the funder works at both the network and ecosystem levels. Other grants go to established operators such as Harmony Public Schools, Third Future Schools, and Democracy Prep Public Schools, alongside organizations that support broader charter infrastructure. The foundation also makes program-related investments and uses grants and low-interest loans in some of its growth programs, indicating a capital structure that is not limited to conventional philanthropy. Its active programs include seed-stage support for new and expanding schools, later-stage scale funding, and a character-and-culture strategy focused on codifying practices that can be used across school networks.
What Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund Funds
Charter school growth is the clearest theme in the recent grants list. The foundation gave $3.175 million to Third Future Schools in Aurora, Colorado for charter school growth, and $2.185 million to Dove Schools Inc in Oklahoma City for the same purpose. It also supported expansion-oriented work at Yes Prep Public Schools Inc in Houston and Santa Fe South Schools Inc in Oklahoma City. Capacity-building is the other major strand. Texas Charter School Development Inc received $5 million in 2025 for charter school capacity-building, while Memphis Education Fund Inc received $3.36 million for the same purpose. The foundation also gave $3 million to Texas Charter Schools Association in Austin and $2 million to Murmuration Research Institute Inc in New York for capacity-building. A smaller but distinct area is impact and innovation. Cambiar Education in San Diego received $1.65 million in 2025 under that label, showing that the funder sometimes backs work beyond direct school growth when it aligns with charter-sector development.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$143.5M
Total Assets
$720.3M
Total Revenue
$232.4M
Total Expenses
$189.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $66K and $250K, with a median of $150K.
25th Percentile
$66K
Median
$150K
75th Percentile
$250K
Geographic Reach
National39 states funded
About 8% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 980 | $322.4M | 99.7% |
| 2 |
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