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City Learners Inc dba My City School

City Learners Inc dba My City School (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,209 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$444k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$307k
Net assets
$21k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What City Learners Inc dba My City School does

Mission

My City School is an experience-based learning environment for middle school children for mild to moderate LD students who thrive in an environment that serves their kinesthetic, multi- sensory learning styles con't on Sch O

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We reimagined education. We broke the mold of the conventional educational model, found a method to provide an individualized approach, and addressed foundational gaps while accessing grade-level content, all within a classroom setting. We redefined the whole child, created a safe space to learn differently, highlighted the significance of each student's natural approach to learning, identified and removed roadblocks, and created micro scaffolding needed to access grade-level content while offering stretch work for strength subjects. This, combined with our STEAM program that emphasizes eco-stewardship, has proved what we knew all along, that kids with learning differences can outperform expectations, and thrive in Gen Ed and accelerated programs. Primary accomplishments: We have watched our students transition successfully into public and private high schools such as Drew, Lowell, Riordan, SOTA, Mid Peninsula High School, Marin School of the Arts, The Dunn School, and more. We consistently hear from parents about how our students advocate for their college of choice and are making great career path decisions. Some specific accomplishments: a Served and graduated over 40 students…

    $429,895 spentof which $100 as grants$441,824 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $429,895.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($319k) Expenses 100 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2018 Revenue 101 ($321k) Expenses 115 ($324k) Net assets 93 ($58k)2019 Revenue 122 ($389k) Expenses 149 ($419k) Net assets 45 ($29k)2020 Revenue 129 ($411k) Expenses 144 ($405k) Net assets 40 ($25k)2021 Revenue 137 ($436k) Expenses 159 ($449k) Net assets 24 ($15k)2022 Revenue 156 ($499k) Expenses 171 ($482k) Net assets 51 ($32k)2023 Revenue 150 ($477k) Expenses 140 ($393k) Net assets 185 ($116k)2024 Revenue 127 ($404k) Expenses 165 ($464k) Net assets 89 ($56k)2025 Revenue 139 ($444k) Expenses 170 ($479k) Net assets 33 ($21k)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (170)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

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 $32k to $140k (+332%).

$63k
$71k
$72k
$25k
$15k
$32k
$140k
$69k
$22k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of City Learners Inc dba My City School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$30k
’19
$7k
’20
−$13k
’21
$17k
’22
$84k
’23
−$60k
’24
−$35k
’25
0.5
months of
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.

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Listed666566555
Joined·+3+0+1+1+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·30200102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $60k.

7 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 City Learners Inc dba My City School’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 Learners Inc dba My City School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 Learners Inc dba My City School.

57%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 82% · 2022 98% · 2023 83% — 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

50% of City Learners Inc dba My City School's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

98% of City Learners Inc dba My City School'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

City Learners Inc dba My City School's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds City Learners Inc dba My City School?
City Learners Inc dba My City School (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,209 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does City Learners Inc dba My City School have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $307,209 in grants to City Learners Inc dba My City School, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of City Learners Inc dba My City School?
THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like City Learners Inc dba My City School 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 8 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