Texas · Nonprofit
CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION
CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,191 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($129,114). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Citylab Hs Foundation does
Mission
Citylab high school foundation is an independent nonprofit organization advocating for and supporting the mission of citylab high school by fostering community involvement and securing funding support. Working together, we are turning today's engaged learners into tomorrow's creative thought leaders. Citylab is a dallas isd choice high school introducing students to architecture, urban planning and environmental sustainability through rigorous project-based curriculum. Using downtown dallas and the urban core as their extended classroom, citylab students not only learn from the city around them, they help transform it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Student/teacher recruitment and enrichment - by focusing on recruiting and retaining qualified teachers and students, citylab high school is a disd choice hs with a growing population and high graduation rate. Students are introduced to architecture, urban planning and design, and environmental systems.
$11,945 spent20% of program spendingCitylab summit/spring event - designed to bring industry and city leaders together with students to engage in a discussion about the city of dallas and the places in which they live, learn, work, and play.
$46,558 spent80% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,503.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $146k to $281k (+93%).
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.
100% of CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $46k → $14k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION’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
CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2020 95% · 2021 63% · 2022 40% · 2023 74% — 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 CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
58% of CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k 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
CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 96% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION: 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 CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION?
- CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,191 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($129,114). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $285,191 in grants to CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $129,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITYLAB HS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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