Maryland · Nonprofit
CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC
CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,048,434 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What City Teaching Alliance Inc does
Mission
City teaching alliance's mission is to prepare highly effective teachers who significantly accelerate student achievement in the nations' highest need schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City teaching alliance prepared 642 participants in the following four cohorts; residents - 187 year 1 fellows - 84 year 2 fellows - 95 year 3 fellows - 138 year 4 fellows. City teaching alliance successfully implemented its program in 314 public and charter schools throughout baltimore, dc, and dallas-fort worth and philadelphia.
$13,103,171 spent$8,364,480 earned by the program78% of program spendingRecruited 206 new residents for cohort year 2024. Efforts to increase diversity proved successful as well, with 69% of cohort 2024 comprised of people of color.
$2,444,836 spent$1,560,675 earned by the program15% of program spendingDesigned, developed, and evaluated the curriculum and professional development for the organization's teacher preparation program. The curriculum is used to deliver a master of science in education to each program participant. The overall accompanying sequence of coaching, evaluation, and independent observations, along with quarterly reviews, has proven successful in honing the quality of city teaching alliance's' preparation program.
$1,171,859 spent$748,062 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,719,866.
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 $9.3M to $30M (+227%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 8% · 2023 20% · 2024 11% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Sekou Biddle
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.8M.
16 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 TEACHING ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 TEACHING ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 45% · 2019 43% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 81% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE 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 $19M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 TEACHING ALLIANCE INC receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $47M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE 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 CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC?
- CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,048,434 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $47,048,434 in grants to CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 68 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