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City Fund

To support city-based non-profit organizations in their efforts to improve public education outcomes for local children, and to make investments to increase the number of high-performing public schools in cities.

$109M
Granted FY2025still arriving
121
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2025.

Education$413MPhilanthropy$16MPublic Benefit$2.8MArts & Culture$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MCivil Rights$1.1MScience & Tech$1.0MHuman Services$823kOther$0
02FY2025 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $401k
  • $50k–250k67 grants · $7.2M
  • $250k+40 grants · $102M
$145,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS$10,416,000
THE MIND TRUST INC$10,000,000
NEW JERSEY CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC$9,410,000
THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST$8,900,000
CAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC$8,150,000
EDUCATION FORWARD DC$5,465,000
ROCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH INC$5,262,000
NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE$5,000,000
ROOTED$4,743,000
CITY EDUCATION PARTNERS$4,324,000
EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC$4,000,000
REDEFINED ATLANTA$3,195,000
RHODE ISLAND EDUCATION COLLECTIVE INC$2,700,000
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE$2,200,000
BLAQUE KC$2,000,000
02The need
03

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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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION: $693k → 8%50CAN ACTION FUND INC: $460k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION: $336k → 8%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $225k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC: $300k → 8%NATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC: $150k → 8%THE CURRENT PROJECT: $45k → 17%THE CURRENT PROJECT: $40k → 17%THE CURRENT PROJECT: $35k → 17%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.

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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 City Fund’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.

City Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$398M · 92 repeat orgs$35M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
81

Total granted

$398M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

99%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TM
    THE MIND TRUST INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $54M · revenue +853% · 57% of their budget
  • EF
    EDUCATION FORWARD DC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $34M · revenue +80% · 68% of their budget
  • NS
    NEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE
    6× · 2019–2025 · $31M · revenue +205% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • LL
    Lead Liberated
    one grant, 2019 · $4.3M · revenue -92% · 67% of their budget
  • B
    BLUEPRINTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue +96% · 43% of their budget
  • NC
    NEWARK CHARTER SCHOOL FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue 0%

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

04Your 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.

1
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
3
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
4
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
5
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
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Greatschools Inc

Greatschools is the leading nonprofit providing high-quality information that supports parents pursuing a great education for their child, schools striving for excellence, and communities working to diminish inequities in education.

Education
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The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
9
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
10
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
11
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
12
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Social ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%19%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%32%5–10yr19%42%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/218
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,347

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

213 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. 213 of the 219 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
208/213
Grantees still filing
99/213
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MIND TRUST INC — $53,914,500 · EducationTHE MIND TRUST INCEDUCATION FORWARD DC — $33,856,000 · EducationEDUCATION FORWARD DCROOTED — $31,725,000 · EducationROOTEDNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE — $30,916,668 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGECAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $28,618,987 · EducationCAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INCNEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $26,962,500 · EducationNEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION — $26,469,167 · EducationTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATIONNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $17,518,500 · EducationEVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC — $13,828,455 · Education+128 more — $118,602,018 · Education+128 moreSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $28,776,500 · OtherSAN ANTONIO …BLAQUE — $5,852,500 · OtherBLAQUEDENVER FAMILIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,600,000 · OtherDENVER FAMIL…+32 more — $9,325,300 · Other+32 moreTHE 74 MEDIA INC — $1,540,000 · Arts & CultureLOST DEBATE INC — $675,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT — $350,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Educational Opportunities Foundation — $250,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC — $1,478,500 · Human Services50CAN ACTION FUND INC — $460,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $225,000 · Human ServicesCURRENT PROJECT — $120,000 · Human ServicesSAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $298,960 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $290,000 · PhilanthropyT GARY AND KATHLEEN ROGERS PRIVATE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $200,000 · PhilanthropyPHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOLORADO SCHOOLS FUND — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $449,970 · Civil RightsALABAMA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATI — $375,000 · Civil RightsThe Mosaic Institute — $100,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsBLACK GIRLS VOTE 4 HER INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsLatino Educators Advancing Leadership (LEAL) — $50,000 · Civil RightsFuturo San Antonio — $400,000 · Public BenefitCLCS ACTION — $239,000 · Public Benefit
Education$382,411,795Other$46,554,300Arts & Culture$2,915,000Human Services$2,283,500Philanthropy$1,513,960Civil Rights$1,124,970Public Benefit$639,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MIND TRUST INC — $53,914,500 over 6y, 57% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC — $33,856,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetROOTED — $31,725,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGE — $30,916,668 over 6y, 91% of budgetCAMDEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $28,618,987 over 5y, 100% of budgetNEW JERSEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $26,962,500 over 6y, 96% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION — $26,469,167 over 5y, 90% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $17,518,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetEVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC — $13,828,455 over 6y, 51% of budgetFORT WORTH EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,770,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetBLAQUE — $5,852,500 over 3y, 92% of budgetRHODE ISLAND EDUCATION COLLECTIVE — $5,835,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetROCHESTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUTH — $5,277,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetBATON ROUGE ALLIANCE FOR STUDENTS — $4,729,262 over 3y, 77% of budgetMEMPHIS EDUCATION FUND INC — $4,344,500 over 5y, 55% of budgetLead Liberated — $4,250,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN A PLUS INC — $3,407,500 over 5y, 30% of budgetBLUEPRINT — $3,000,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $2,914,980 over 2y, 30% of budgetExcellent Schools New Mexico — $2,700,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $2,662,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKIPP TEAM AND FAMILY SCHOOLS INC — $2,615,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDENVER FAMILIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,600,000 over 3y, 73% of budget50CAN INC — $2,585,464 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetDC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE — $2,365,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $2,350,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC — $2,315,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE — $2,082,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,814,077 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,759,833 over 2y, 96% of budgetFUTURE READY CLEVELAND — $1,752,200 over 1y, 70% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC — $1,700,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE 74 MEDIA INC — $1,540,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC — $1,533,333 over 2y, 10% of budgetGREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR INDY INC — $1,506,725 over 4y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL PARENTS UNION INC — $1,478,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetGEORGIA CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $1,425,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $1,302,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetEDUCATION UNITED INDY INC — $1,272,500 over 2y, 90% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,185,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,165,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEVEL FIELD FACILITIES FUND INC — $1,150,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetREVOLUCION EDUCATIVA — $1,119,300 over 1y, 74% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $1,115,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA — $1,100,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS — $1,054,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetBLUEPRINT TEXAS — $1,000,000 over 2y, 6.5% 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.

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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Walton Family Foundat…New Schools FundCampaign for Great Pu…Gates FoundationCharles and Helen Sch…Tennessee State Colla…Joe C Davis FoundationThe Bloomberg Family …Carnegie Corporation …Charles and Lynn Schu…Louis Calder Foundati…
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO119.6× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Schools Fund · Campaign for Great Public Schools · Gates Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Louis Calder 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 City Fund 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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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation — 100% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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

Source object · view filing

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