Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC
CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,373,939 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $773k
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Citizen Schools Inc does
Mission
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. Americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand experience based, hands-on learning with mentors at their host sites.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
We changed how our programs are shown on our financials and combined all program services into one bucket.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Csi provides comprehensive services through its national office to support state/local operations, including national recruitment of campus staff and citizen teachers, management of national relationships and key stakeholders, nationwide best practice sharing, nationally-based staff training, program research and evaluation, and curriculum, instruction, and training support. These services include the development, launch and implementation of the catalyst program, supporting teachers to deliver hands-on project-based learning during science classes across the country, as well as field development and the makers network to mobilize public and community support for high-quality after-school programs through resource, evaluation, innovation, advocacy and the leadership of the makers + mentors (formerly us2020 network). Csi advocates for the continued expansion of specific funding and public policy initiatives that support 21st-century skill development, mentorship, americorps national service, and out of school time, while focusing efforts on innovation through the makers network, which includes 20 community coalitions that offer high quality project-based stem learning with…
$2,055,504 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,055,504.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.2M to $11M (+116%).
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: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 37% · 2020 45% · 2021 47% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% · 2024 13% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Nadia K Selby
CEO
Board chair
Michael Keating
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 46 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $3.1M → $648k.
22 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
66% 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 CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 14% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 80% · 2023 17% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
53% of CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record — $5.2M federal, $205k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$5.2M
- NJ$200k
- MA$5k
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 CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: 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 CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC?
- CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,373,939 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($8,000,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $26,373,939 in grants to CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 125 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