How much does Cityschools Collaborative give?

Cityschools Collaborative reported 22 grants totaling $1,643,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Cityschools Collaborative fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Employment (17%), Youth Development (4%).

Who are Cityschools Collaborative's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cityworks DC ($2.5M), DC Public Education Fund ($578k), Raising A Village Foundation ($545k).

Does Cityschools Collaborative fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cityschools Collaborative?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Education Forward DC, 50can Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation.

Where is Cityschools Collaborative based?

Cityschools Collaborative is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Cityschools Collaborative

CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE (formerly citytutor dc) catalyzes high-impact tutoring and strategic talent models to serve thousands of students, improving student well-being, accelerating academic performance, and enhancing flexible staffing systems in schools.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $280,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 36; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Cityschools Collaborative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$1.6M	19%
FY2024	22	$1.9M	18%
FY2023	34	$4.9M	50%
FY2022	36	$2.7M	69%
FY2021	14	$777k	43%
FY2020	10	$1.0M	40%
FY2019	13	$1.1M	92%
FY2018	7	$1.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$11MEmployment$2.5MYouth Development$660kPhilanthropy$220kCommunity Improvement$157kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$95kScience & Tech$40kOther$0

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cityworks DC	$2,525,475	1	38%
DC Public Education Fund	$577,500	6	6%
Raising A Village Foundation	$545,000	4	29%
Teach for America Inc	$534,625	3	0%
The Literacy Lab	$513,671	2	1%
The Wildflower Foundation	$430,015	3	2%
Blueprint Schools Network Inc	$392,946	3	5%
Girls Global Academy Public Charter School	$365,168	5	16%
I Dream Public Charter School	$364,621	4	n/a
Sojourner Truth School	$358,225	6	15%

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All grantees of Cityschools Collaborative by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cityworks DC	$2,525,475	1	38%
DC Public Education Fund	$577,500	6	6%
Raising A Village Foundation	$545,000	4	29%
Teach for America Inc	$534,625	3	0%
The Literacy Lab	$513,671	2	1%
The Wildflower Foundation	$430,015	3	2%
Blueprint Schools Network Inc	$392,946	3	5%
Girls Global Academy Public Charter School	$365,168	5	16%
I Dream Public Charter School	$364,621	4	n/a
Sojourner Truth School	$358,225	6	15%
Good Projects Inc	$350,000	4	7%
The Fishing School Inc	$340,000	3	17%
Higher Achievement Program Inc	$325,000	3	2%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$320,000	1	0%
The George Washington University	$312,607	4	0%
Global Citizens Public Charter School	$310,000	3	22%
Social Justice Public Charter School Inc	$309,122	4	48%
Georgetown University	$270,412	3	0%
Perry Street Preparatory Public Charter School	$250,000	4	1%
DC Scores	$240,000	2	3%
National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector	$225,000	2	7%
Horton's Kids Inc	$220,000	2	2%
The Next Step Public Charter School	$210,000	1	2%
Resources to Inspire Students & Educators-Dc	$208,000	2	30%
Friendship Public Charter School Inc	$205,000	5	0%
City Year Inc	$204,000	2	0%
Great Oaks Foundation Inc	$197,000	3	1%
Reading Partners	$195,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate	$191,950	2	1%
Digital Pioneers Academy Public Charter School	$185,057	1	14%
Statesmen College Preparatory Academy for Boys	$175,000	1	16%
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers	$170,000	2	3%
Tutor Partners	$155,000	2	n/a
American University	$149,300	3	0%
Cambiar Education	$144,150	2	0%
Saga Innovations Inc	$140,000	1	0%
Lee Montessori Public Charter School	$137,660	5	1%
Capital Village Schools	$132,150	3	n/a
Multicultural Career Intern Program	$130,000	1	5%
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science	$125,000	1	2%
Latin American Youth Center	$120,000	1	1%
Harriet Tubman Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization	$120,000	1	n/a
Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy	$107,450	3	0%
Serve Your City	$100,000	1	17%
Benjamin Orr Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization	$100,000	1	n/a
Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy Inc	$95,000	1	12%
Booknook Inc	$94,892	1	n/a
Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc	$86,500	1	6%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc	$84,345	1	0%
Capital Village Public Charter School	$80,000	1	24%
Kid Power Inc	$75,000	1	4%
DC Scholars Public Charter School Inc	$67,297	3	0%
Federal City Council	$59,986	2	2%
Amira Learning Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Bright Beginnings Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Reading Assist Institute	$50,000	1	1%
Enlightened Inc	$49,552	2	n/a
Center City Public Charter Schools	$48,000	1	0%
The Trigger Project	$40,000	1	n/a
Sparc	$40,000	1	n/a
Polyglot Tot	$40,000	1	n/a
Relevant Learner Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Thrive Industries Incorporated	$40,000	1	n/a
617 Education Inc	$40,000	2	n/a
Varsity Tutors for Schools Inc	$34,875	1	n/a
Teach to Lead LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Socialgrlz LLC	$30,000	1	n/a
Innovative Academy of Liberal Arts & Sciences	$30,000	1	n/a
The Creative School Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Kipp DC Public Charter Schools	$25,000	1	0%
DC Language Immersion Project Inc	$20,101	1	13%
Thurgood Marshall Academy	$20,000	1	0%
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School	$20,000	1	0%
City Teaching Alliance Inc	$18,240	1	0%
Integrated Design Electronics Academy Public Charter School	$10,000	1	0%
Nonprofit Wellness	$10,000	1	n/a
Trilogy Mentors Inc	$9,600	1	n/a
Corporation of the Washington Latin School	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Cityschools Collaborative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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.

Education Forward DCDC49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Education Forward DC · 50can Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · New Schools Fund · Citybridge Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Gates 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.

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About Cityschools Collaborative

How much does Cityschools Collaborative give?: Cityschools Collaborative reported 22 grants totaling $1,643,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cityschools Collaborative fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Employment (17%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Cityschools Collaborative's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cityworks DC ($2.5M), DC Public Education Fund ($578k), Raising A Village Foundation ($545k).
Does Cityschools Collaborative fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cityschools Collaborative?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Education Forward DC, 50can Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
Where is Cityschools Collaborative based?: Cityschools Collaborative is based in DC.