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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,634,927 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($2,182,666). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc does
Mission
To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and opportunities to give back.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cis works both inside and outside the classroom to help students find new paths to success through case management, literacy, and afterschool programs. These programs are designed to keep students on track for graduation while connecting them to resources that serve the needs of their entire family. Site coordinators are embedded directly into 37 duval county public schools with low-income, disadvantaged students who have been identified as at-risk of falling behind or dropping out of school. The case management division is comprised of four programs: student enrichment program, bridge to success program, achievers for life, and gear up. The student enrichment program (sep), which communities in schools of jacksonville has operated since its inception, follows the national cis model that uses evidence-based practices to surround students with a community of support to help them stay in school, graduate and achieve success in life. At the high school level, additional focus is placed on college and career development. Full-time site coordinators work individually and in group sessions with about 75 students at each school throughout the school year to advocate, mentor, and counsel…
$3,850,324 spent$4,846,210 earned by the program42% of program spendingCommunities in schools of jacksonville offers a quality, free, afterschool program in elementary, middle and high duval county public schools to provide students with a safe environment where they can complete their homework under certified teacher supervision and have the opportunity to participate in enrichment activities like sports, symphony and robotics. For students in kindergarten through eighth grade, the afterschool program operates monday through friday for three hours each day and focuses on six core areas - academic enrichment, sports and recreation, life skills, cultural enrichment, parental involvement and community service. Each afternoon, students are welcomed into a general meeting place, checked in by quality after-school staff and enjoy a nutritious snack. Students then spend up to 75 minutes each day working on academics under the supervision of a certified teacher and after-school staff members. After academics, students participate in enrichment activities such as cheerleading, dance, arts and crafts, and sports. Each of these activities is led by highly qualified after-school staff members who are background screened by duval county public schools. Certain…
$4,583,718 spent$5,769,297 earned by the program50% of program spendingSince its inception in 1999, communities in schools of jacksonville's americorps duval reads literacy program has provided intensive one-on-one and small group literacy tutoring for underperforming students in elementary school who are reading at one or more grade levels below their class. Americorps members participate in a rigorous two-week training and orientation to learn how to identify students in need of literacy tutoring. Training consists of members learning the common core standards and utilizing the stars literacy curriculum to help support classroom instruction. Once the school year begins, members engage the school staff and principals to help identify students who need literacy tutoring as indicated by reading assessment scores. Student reading achievement is measured through cis's partnership with duval county public schools (dcps). Throughout the year, students and americorps tutors work with dcps-provided programs achieve3000 and I-ready to determine their status and progress in math and reading. The data is used to identify low-level readers, create a target data baseline of student reading skills and compare the pre- and post- test scores to measure progress of…
$733,395 spent$923,088 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,167,437.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.9M to $6.6M (+128%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Abena Horton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $45k → $839k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 63% · 2019 81% · 2020 78% · 2021 52% · 2022 58% · 2023 43% — 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
35% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
71% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $542k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,634,927 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($2,182,666). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,634,927 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC?
- The Jim Moran Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,182,666 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 32 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