Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,378,688 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($47,600,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $70M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Chiefs for Change does
Mission
Chiefs for Change accelerates progress in public education by building leaders and systems' capacity to provide young people with 21st-century experiences that prepare them for success on a pathway to economic and social mobility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Chiefs for Change (cfc) fills a critical gap in the education sector by equipping system-level leaders with the training, tools, and influence needed to drive transformative change for students. Through its integrated focus on leadership development, system support, and policy and advocacy, cfc advances equity and excellence across k12 public education.leadership development:cfc prepares both sitting and aspiring superintendents and state chiefs to navigate the complexities of modern education leadership with clarity, compassion, and courage. Through cohort-based fellowships, executive coaching, and peer mentorship, cfc supports leaders in building the skills, mindsets, and networks required to lead transformative systems change.system support:cfc partners directly with member districts and states to co-design and deliver customized engagements and communities of practice that accelerate system improvement. Over the past year, these engagements have focused on strengthening early literacy, building sustainable educator pipelines, responsibly integrating new technologies, transforming high schools, and improving postsecondary readiness and outcomes.policy and advocacy:cfc amplifies…
$8,427,283 spent$450,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,427,283.
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 $9.9M to $30M (+202%).
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.
93% of CHIEFS FOR CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Robert Runcie
CEO
Board chair
Pedro Martinez
Director/board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $680k → $17M.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHIEFS FOR CHANGE raised.
From the IRS filings of CHIEFS FOR CHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHIEFS FOR CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 56% · 2019 44% · 2020 37% · 2021 84% · 2022 58% · 2023 86% — 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
29% of CHIEFS FOR CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CHIEFS FOR CHANGE is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHIEFS FOR CHANGE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHIEFS FOR CHANGE: 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 CHIEFS FOR CHANGE?
- CHIEFS FOR CHANGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,378,688 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($47,600,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHIEFS FOR CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $70,378,688 in grants to CHIEFS FOR CHANGE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHIEFS FOR CHANGE?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHIEFS FOR CHANGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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