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Citybridge Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2020
81
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.6MInternational$506kYouth Development$266kFood & Nutrition$126kCivil Rights$112kCrime & Legal$70kArts & Culture$61kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2020 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k37 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $454k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Education Forward DC$150,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
Teach For America - DC Region$125,000
Emory University$100,000
KIPP Foundation$100,000
DC Education Equity Fund$100,000
Rocketship Education$100,000
Junior Achievement Of Greater Washington$100,000
Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law$100,000
KIPP Foundation - Opportunity Fund - Year 1$100,000
KIPP New Orleans Schools$70,000
GOODProjects$65,000
DC College Access Program$50,000
Girls Global Academy$50,000
Statesmen College Preparatory Academy For Boys PCS$50,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Gideon's Promise: $1k → 13%Heeling House Inc: $1k → 4%Homestretch: $1k → 4%Educare of Washington DC: $1k → 14%Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League: $1k → 14%Educare of Washington DC: $1k → 14%Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League: $1k → 14%Educare Of Washington DC: $1k → 14%Family & Youth Initiative: $1k → 14%Asian American LEAD: $1k → 14%New Futures: $5k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 49 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2020, 9 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
57

Total granted

$4.8M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+47%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • KD
    KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $655k · revenue +112%
  • ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $425k · revenue +95%
  • KF
    KIPP FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • CC
    CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $1.7M · revenue -15%
  • MS
    MONUMENTAL SCHOLARS FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • DL
    DC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -97%

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
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
2
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
3
Two Rivers Public Charter School Inc

Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.

Education
4
Capital City Public Charter School Inc

The organization's mission is to enable a diverse group of children to meet high expectations, develop creativity, critical thinking, problem solving skills, and achieve a deep understanding of complex subjects, while acquiring a love of…

Education
5
Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy

To prepare students to succeed in competitive colleges and to empower them to use public policy to create a more just, free, and equal world.

Education
6
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
7
Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education
8
Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School

A professional learning community of master teachers and teacher residents who ensure that a diverse group of students achieve their potential as accomplished learners, thoughtful citizens, and imaginative and inquisitive problem solvers…

Education
9
Democracy Prep Public Schools

To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.

Arts & Culture
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
12
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Standardswork Inc. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development ServicesEquine Therapy Programs
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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%37%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr15%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%47%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr16%4%35–55yr15%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/118
the rest of the field
12%
1,599/12,883

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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 146 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/116
Grantees still filing
85/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE — $1,662,175 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $655,000 · EducationKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSTeach for America Inc — $525,000 · EducationTeach for America IncROCKETSHIP EDUCATION — $425,000 · EducationROCKETSHIP EDUCATIONKIPP FOUNDATION — $350,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONEDUCATION FORWARD DC — $300,000 · EducationKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC — $280,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $275,000 · EducationDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $200,000 · Education+47 more — $1,145,500 · Education+47 moreChild Protection Unit Network Org — $375,000 · OtherChild Protection Unit N…EMORY UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…DC Education Equity Fund — $100,000 · OtherDC Education Equity Fun…Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $100,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for …MONUMENTAL SCHOLARS FUND — $100,000 · OtherMONUMENTAL SCHOLARS FUN…KIPP Foundation - Opportunity Fund - Year 1 — $100,000 · OtherKIPP Foundation - Oppor…+59 more — $533,000 · Other+59 moreMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionWHITE TRUCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD PROJECTS INC — $90,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyDC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HIGH TEA SOCIETY — $14,000 · Arts & CultureThe MusicianShip DC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $100,000 · InternationalTilting Futures Incorporated — $5,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalSEE FOREVER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$5,817,675Other$1,633,000Food & Nutrition$126,000Philanthropy$118,500Arts & Culture$118,000International$106,000Crime & Legal$61,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $655,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $525,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION — $425,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC — $280,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $275,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDC PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $136,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $52,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE TRUCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMONUMENT ACADEMY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION — $40,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEUPHEMIA L HAYNES PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOUR TURN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAHARA INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPARK THE JOURNEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE — $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HIGH TEA SOCIETY — $14,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetKINDRED INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark Charitable Foun…Education Forward DCNew Schools FundCityschools Collabora…Philip L Graham Fund …Walton Family Foundat…Gates FoundationUnited Way of the Nat…Flamboyan Foundation …Charter Fund Inc D/B/…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC58.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Education Forward DC · New Schools Fund · Cityschools Collaborative · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund

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 Citybridge Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Standardswork Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Citybridge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Citybridge Foundation 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.

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 146 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.5M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home