Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CITY YEAR INC
CITY YEAR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 925 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,793,317 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($54,412,850). 575 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173M
- Funders on record
- 925
- Grants received
- $440M
- Net assets
- $53M
What City Year Inc does
Mission
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. Partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning environments where all students can build on their strengths, fully engage in their learning, and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In-school servicein fiscal year 2025, more than 98% of city year's 2,174 full-time participants served on teams in schools. Most of their 2,991,880 service hours were spent as tutors, mentors, and role models helping children in high-poverty schools stay in school and on track to graduate. As near-peers, corps members are uniquely able to help improve student attendance, behavior, and coursework - which research confirms are indicators of a student's likelihood of graduating high school. In each of city year's 258 partner schools, the team provides academic support, attendance monitoring and incentives, positive behavior support, and after-school programming events (such as assemblies and celebrations) that improve the overall school environment. The service model helps the corps members have an impact beyond the 23,468 students reached directly through one-on-one and small group instruction. Corps members change the environment of a school by immediately changing the ratio of students to responsible, caring adults. In addition to the in-school services, more than 6,637 students were provided with after-school and school environment programs. Schools that partner with city year…
$78,330,360 spentof which $1,317,123 as grants54% of program spendingYouth civic leadership40,000 of city year's alumni continue to serve and lead across an array of professions, including education, with more than half of alums working as teachers, adminstrators, guidance counselors and at education nonprofits, and are engaged in their communities. They share their passion for civic engagement by leading students in activities that help the participants gain a better understanding of challenges facing their communities and how they can help address them. City year was founded on the belief that a year of national service could serve as a civic rite of passage - a uniquely transformational life experience that, while helping transform communities in need, could bend the trajectory of an idealistic young person's life towards a lifetime of active citizenship and civic leadership.
$62,374,176 spentof which $45,302,239 as grants43% of program spendingPhysical serviceall city year locations host large-scale service events throughout the year, led by corps and staff. In fiscal year 2025, 9,764 citizens volunteered 25,129 hours in projects including painting murals, refurbishing schools, creating play places, planting community gardens, and revitalizing community centers. A physical service project completed by a city year led team can powerfully transform a school environment or neighborhood, both by visibly improving the space with the immediate results, and also by inspiring participants to volunteer again.
$4,351,687 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,056,223.
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 2020 to 2021, from $88M to $109M (+25%).
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 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 48% · 2020 51% · 2021 51% · 2022 47% · 2023 55% · 2024 56% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CITY YEAR INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (3% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
James Balfanz
Chief executive officer
Board chair
George Nichols Iii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 243 funders to 346 funders, grant income rose $34M → $55M.
95 of 925 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $4.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Crimson Lion Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CITY YEAR INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CITY YEAR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 925 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 YEAR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
71% 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 YEAR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 19% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 30% · 2023 12% — 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
44% of CITY YEAR 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
CITY YEAR INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180M arriving through sponsors registered in 33 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 YEAR INC is better cushioned than half of the 12 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12 unclassified nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CITY YEAR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $163.6M on record — $163.6M federal, $15k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$163.6M
- FL$11k
- CT$4k
- MA$200
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 CITY YEAR 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
83% 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 17 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITY YEAR 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 YEAR INC?
- CITY YEAR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 925 organizations whose IRS filings report $439,793,317 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($54,412,850). 575 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY YEAR INC have?
- IRS filings report 925 organizations giving $439,793,317 in grants to CITY YEAR INC, 575 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY YEAR INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $54,412,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY YEAR 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 925 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing