Oregon · Nonprofit
CITY FUND
CITY FUND (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,914,599 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($122,353,180). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $361M
- Net assets
- $43M
What City Fund does
Mission
To support city-based non-profit organizations in their efforts to improve public education outcomes for local children, and to make investments to increase the number of high-performing public schools in cities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Today, our educational system works well for far too few children in the united states. This failure not only deprives millions of children of a legitimate pathway to pursue gainful employment and a purpose-filled life, but it is also a threat to the wellbeing of our nation.to address these systemic challenges, City Fund invests in and supports city-based nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing the number of high-quality public schools in their cities and otherwise improving outcomes for all children. City Fund supports nonprofits that share its mission in three core ways: advising; funding; and convening. (continued on sch. O)advising: City Fund provides advising and coaching support to the leaders of city-based nonprofit organizations aiming to improve public school outcomes. City Fund focuses its advising efforts on city-based non-profit organizations that are playing a key leadership roleinvesting in the creation of new, high-quality public schools, funding and developing educator talent pipelines, engaging their community, and supporting education policy improvements.funding: City Fund provides funding to city-based nonprofit organizations focused on improving public…
$120,612,455 spentof which $109,340,212 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $120,612,455.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $119M to $60M (−50%).
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.
95% of CITY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Marlon Marshall
CEO
Board chair
John Arnold
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $18M → $101M.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $6.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Campaign for Great Public Schools). These are real filings, and they are not money CITY FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of CITY FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 CITY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 40% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 33% — 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
80% of CITY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
52% of CITY FUND'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 $174M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CITY FUND's revenue fell 26% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CITY FUND
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Campaign for Great Public Schools · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CITY FUND?
- CITY FUND (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,914,599 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($122,353,180). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $360,914,599 in grants to CITY FUND, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY FUND?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $122,353,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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