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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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$9.7MPhilanthropy$720kCommunity Improvement$545kYouth Development$443kHuman Services$340kArts & Culture$20kOther$3.5M
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA$280,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$189,000
RAISING A VILLAGE FOUNDATION$147,500
BLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK$147,000
GREAT OAKS FOUNDATION$108,000
MCIP INC$107,500
FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$80,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$75,000
READING PARTNERS$75,000
KID POWER INC$75,000
READING ASSIST$50,000
CESAR CHAVEZ PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS FOR PUBLIC POLICY$44,833
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$40,412
DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$33,333
PERRY STREET PREP PCS$31,667
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 (FY22–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $120k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $120k → 14%FISHING SCHOOL: $100k → 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
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 37 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
38

Total granted

$9.6M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+35%

Still filing today

89%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • DP
    DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2018–2025 · $578k · revenue +82%
  • RA
    Raising A Village Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $545k · revenue +62% · 29% of their budget
  • GG
    GIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $365k · revenue +590%

Funded once

  • CD
    CITYWORKS DC
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -42% · 38% of their budget
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $320k · revenue +53%
  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $210k · revenue +40%

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
Ingenuity Prep

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

Education
2
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
3
Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
9
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
10
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
11
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
12
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

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 Bright Beginnings 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 backsteadyYouth Development ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersIndependent 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 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr15%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%21%<5yr14%24%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/80
the rest of the field
12%
1,598/12,921

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

61 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. 61 of the 81 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITYWORKS DC — $2,525,475 · EducationCITYWORKS DCDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $577,500 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDTeach for America Inc — $534,625 · EducationTeach for America IncTHE LITERACY LAB — $513,671 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $430,015 · EducationBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $392,946 · EducationI DREAM PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $364,621 · EducationSOJOURNER TRUTH SCHOOL — $358,225 · Education+30 more — $4,035,795 · Education+30 moreGIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $365,168 · OtherGIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBL…HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $325,000 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRA…GLOBAL CITIZENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $310,000 · OtherGLOBAL CITIZENS PUBLIC CH…DC SCORES — $240,000 · OtherDC SCORESHORTON'S KIDS INC — $220,000 · OtherHORTON'S KIDS INCCITY YEAR INC — $204,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION INC — $197,000 · OtherGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $191,950 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF G…TUTOR PARTNERS — $155,000 · OtherCAPITAL VILLAGE SCHOOLS — $132,150 · OtherMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM — $130,000 · OtherHARRIET TUBMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $120,000 · Other+20 more — $869,250 · Other+20 moreGOOD PROJECTS INC — $350,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $170,000 · PhilanthropySERVE YOUR CITY — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyRaising A Village Foundation — $545,000 · Community ImprovementRESOURCES TO INSPIRE STUDENTS & EDUCATORS-DC — $208,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentKID POWER INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRIGGER PROJECT — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Fishing School Inc — $340,000 · Human ServicesDC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC — $20,101 · Arts & Culture
Education$9,732,873Other$3,459,518Philanthropy$720,000Community Improvement$545,000Youth Development$443,000Human Services$340,000Arts & Culture$20,101

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 budgetCITYWORKS DC — $2,525,475 over 1y, 38% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $577,500 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetRaising A Village Foundation — $545,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $534,625 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $513,671 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION — $430,015 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK INC — $392,946 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetGIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $365,168 over 5y, 16% of budgetSOJOURNER TRUTH SCHOOL — $358,225 over 6y, 15% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC — $350,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc — $340,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $325,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $320,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $312,607 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $310,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $309,122 over 4y, 48% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $270,412 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERRY STREET PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $250,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDC SCORES — $240,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR — $225,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $220,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $210,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRESOURCES TO INSPIRE STUDENTS & EDUCATORS-DC — $208,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetFRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $204,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT OAKS FOUNDATION INC — $197,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $195,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $191,950 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $185,057 over 1y, 14% of budgetSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS — $175,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $170,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $149,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $144,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAGA INNOVATIONS INC — $140,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEE MONTESSORI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $137,660 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHOWARD UNIVERSITY MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $120,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCESAR CHAVEZ PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $107,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSERVE YOUR CITY — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE METHOD INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY INC — $95,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC — $86,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $84,345 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL VILLAGE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $80,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKID POWER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDC SCHOLARS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $67,297 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL — $59,986 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Education Forward DC50can IncGreater Washington Co…New Schools FundCitybridge FoundationThe Morris and Gwendo…Clark Charitable Foun…Flamboyan Foundation …United Way of the Nat…Walton Family Foundat…Philip L Graham Fund …Gates Foundation
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

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 Cityschools Collaborative 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
  • Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Blueprint Schools Network Inc — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
34report 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.

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 81 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines