California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,303,000 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Center for the Collaborative Classroom does
Mission
Our mission is to help students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers while they develop the social and emotional skills necessary to thrive. Founded in 1980, Center for the Collaborative Classroom conducted seminal research on social development. (see sch o) collaborative classroom has evolved into a partner for schools and is dedicated to transforming the school experience, developing students, and empowering teachers as they engage students. Center for the Collaborative Classroom is dedicated to students' growth as critical thinkers who learn from, care for, and respect one another.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Center for the Collaborative Classroom provides a complete k6 literacy program that gets to the core of what is needed to enhance instructional practice in reading and language arts classrooms throughout the united states. Our suite of integrated literacy programs effectively motivate all students to learn and to help all students master basic literacy skills while also learning to think deeply about what they read and write. In addition, our programs facilitate students' acquisition of social and emotional skills and ethical and caring dispositions, as a seamless part of academic instruction establish classroom conditions in which all students are able to form supportive relationships with one another and their teachers and, in the process, effectively "bond" to their school, their teachers, and their peers.
$19,579,436 spent$15,965,615 earned by the program98% of program spendingThe Center for the Collaborative Classroom provides early childhood resources for children ages 35 that are informed by classroom experience and what research tells us young children need to thrive and become kindergarten-ready. All of our early childhood resources align with our k5 curricula and prepare children for kindergarten success.
$362,318 spent$412,971 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe caring school community (csc) program is an approach to creating caring school environments that support students' character development and academic learning by building supportive relationships among students, teachers, and parents and by guiding students' ethical, social, and emotional as well as academic growth. Csc strengthens students' connectedness to schoolan important element for increasing academic motivation and achievement and for reducing violence and delinquency. Schools which have implemented the csc program have experienced measureable gains in reading and math scores as well as an environment within the schools where students display an increased level of empathy and cooperation that carries over into academics.
$416,843 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,941,754.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $28M (+58%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kelly Stuart
CEO/president
Board chair
Susan Wally
Chairperson of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $562k → $156k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$1k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$1k
- CLOUD SERVICES$800
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM?
- CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,303,000 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,303,000 in grants to CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing