California · Nonprofit
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,255,561 to it, the largest being GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ($2,762,400). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles does
Mission
To provide a socio-economically, culturally and racially diverse community of students in the heart of Los Angeles with an intellectually challenging experiential learning environment that develops each individual student's confidence, potential, and individual responsibility as citizens of the world in which we live.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
CWC Los Angeles operates five public charter schools serving the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Mar Vista, East Valley and West Valley in Los Angeles. All schools are authorized by the Los Angeles Unified School District. CWC Los Angeles is currently serving 2,467 students from transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.
$42,405,204 spent$52,833,540 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,405,204.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $78M (+187%).
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 84% · 2018 83% · 2019 84% · 2020 79% · 2021 78% · 2022 79% · 2023 77% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Melissa Kaplan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $70k → $1.1M.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 87% · 2019 58% · 2020 66% · 2021 43% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“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
41% of Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
68% of Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Education$4.5M
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 Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Citizens Of The World Charter Schools · exempt
- CWCLA Support Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: 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 Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles?
- Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,255,561 to it, the largest being GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW ($2,762,400). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $10,255,561 in grants to Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles?
- GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW is the largest funder on record, with $2,762,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles 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 33 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