Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Citybridge Foundation
Its FY2025 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
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Median grant, FY2020
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 10
- Total assets, FY2020
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Citybridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 80 | $2.3M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $1.6M | 59% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.1M | 72% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cityschools Collaborative | $1,662,175 | 1 | n/a |
| Kipp DC Public Charter Schools | $655,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $525,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rocketship Education | $425,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kipp Foundation | $350,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Education Forward DC | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kipp of New Orleans Inc | $280,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Schools Fund | $275,000 | 4 | 1% |
| DC Preparatory Academy | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Emory University | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 118 grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Citybridge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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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.
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About Citybridge Foundation
- How much does Citybridge Foundation give?
- Citybridge Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $2,284,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does Citybridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (30%), International (2%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Citybridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Cityschools Collaborative ($1.7M), Kipp DC Public Charter Schools ($655k), Teach for America Inc ($525k).
- Does Citybridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Citybridge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Citybridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation.
- Where is Citybridge Foundation based?
- Citybridge Foundation is based in DC.
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