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CITYSPROUTS INC

CITYSPROUTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,473 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($340,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$411k
29/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Citysprouts Inc does

Mission

The citysprouts mission is to cultivate curiosity and wonder in students through hands-on science learning in their own schoolyard gardens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Citysprouts' unique approach to science education is based on the power of the schoolyard garden to engage children in deep and authentic science through the natural world. Citysprouts' in-school program in 24 boston and cambridge elementary schools has carved out time in the school day for city children to experience science in a meaningful way and to build a lifelong connection to the natural world, extended through its summer and afterschool programs for middle school youth.

    $856,877 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $856,877.

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 ($581k) Expenses 100 ($568k) Net assets 100 ($284k)2018 Revenue 131 ($762k) Expenses 125 ($708k) Net assets 111 ($316k)2019 Revenue 108 ($625k) Expenses 145 ($826k) Net assets 40 ($115k)2020 Revenue 154 ($895k) Expenses 130 ($738k) Net assets 96 ($272k)2021 Revenue 145 ($844k) Expenses 136 ($771k) Net assets 122 ($345k)2022 Revenue 215 ($1.2M) Expenses 169 ($960k) Net assets 223 ($633k)2023 Revenue 193 ($1.1M) Expenses 182 ($1.0M) Net assets 253 ($718k)2024 Revenue 174 ($1.0M) Expenses 204 ($1.2M) Net assets 201 ($571k)2025 Revenue 181 ($1.1M) Expenses 213 ($1.2M) Net assets 145 ($411k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (213)Net assets (145)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 2021 to 2022, from $364k to $677k (+86%).

$300k
$334k
$179k
$279k
$364k
$677k
$742k
$735k
$509k
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 30% · 2020 39% · 2024 49% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CITYSPROUTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$53k
’18
−$202k
’19
$158k
’20
$73k
’21
$288k
’22
$85k
’23
−$148k
’24
−$160k
’25
2.9
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.

Chief executive

Susan Diller

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Joined·+8+0+1+2+8+2+1+0
No longer listed·03534220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $170k → $359k.

10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CITYSPROUTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

CITYSPROUTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

41% 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 CITYSPROUTS INC.

15%
largest funder
30%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 15% · 2019 12% · 2020 15% · 2021 18% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.

“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

63% of CITYSPROUTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of CITYSPROUTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $537k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

CITYSPROUTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding CITYSPROUTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $422k on record.

State$422k
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  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$422k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 13%Fundraising 17%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CITYSPROUTS INC?
CITYSPROUTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,220,473 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($340,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CITYSPROUTS INC have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,220,473 in grants to CITYSPROUTS INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CITYSPROUTS INC?
CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CITYSPROUTS 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.

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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 44 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