· Public charity
Communities in Schools
Surround students with a community of support and empower them to stay in school and achieve in life.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k6 grants · $852k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $1,745,136 |
| PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $611,839 |
| LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $376,428 |
| SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $331,164 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $281,875 |
| PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $257,044 |
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $236,840 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA | $191,910 |
| NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $158,418 |
| GROWING TOGETHER | $123,734 |
| NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION | $71,119 |
| SUPPORTERS OF TEXAS STUDENTS SUCCESS | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY4× · 2018–2021 · $803k · revenue +90%
- LTLEARN TO EARN DAYTON4× · 2018–2021 · $776k · revenue +287%
- SIStriveTogether Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $535k · revenue +735%
Funded once
- BOBOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST FUNDone grant, 2023 · $109k · revenue +22%
- AAAmerican Association of School Administrators Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +59%
- NTNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…
Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…
Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.
Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
See schedule o, page 45.founded in 1956 and incorporated in 1961, the purpose of the council of the great city schools (the council) is to represent the needs, challenges, and successes of major-city public school districts and their…
We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
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.
The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds StriveTogether Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTERS OF TEXAS STUDENTS SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds SEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
- Who funds GROWING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF EDUCATION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds American Association of School Administrators Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF NORTH LOUISIANA MCADOO SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FCOE INC ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Share Our Strength · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Wallace Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Save the Music Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · World Vision Inc · Strider Education Foundation Inc · Digital Promise Global
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Communities in Schools funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communities in Schools. Bigger dots raise more.
- Growing Together Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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