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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 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, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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, $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. Its 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
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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of City Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

City Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+17%
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
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

  • 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%
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
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
6
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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8
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

214 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 214 of the 219 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
209/214
Grantees still filing
98/214
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+129 more: $118,677,018 · Education+129 moreSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $28,776,500 · OtherSAN ANTONIO …BLAQUE: $5,852,500 · OtherBLAQUEDENVER FAMILIES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,600,000 · OtherDENVER FAMIL…+31 more: $9,250,300 · Other+31 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 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC: $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 RightsBLACK GIRLS VOTE 4 HER INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEANS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS 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$382,486,795Other$46,479,300Arts & Culture$2,915,000Human Services$2,283,500Philanthropy$1,513,960Civil Rights$1,124,970Public Benefit$639,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPROJECT READY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 74% 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.

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

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 City Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from City Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 219 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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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