Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,508,000 to it, the largest being THE HUBBARD BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ($450,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $999k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $409k
What Communities in Schools of the Twin Cities does
Mission
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Integrated student supports we provide three tiers of support in each of our program locations. Tier 1 is school-wide support that can positively impact the entire student body. Examples include food support, bullying prevention and attendance improvement initiatives. Tier 2 is focused small group support and typically includes mentoring and tutoring. Tier 3 is individual case managed support. Site coordinators case manage 5-10% of the student population in each school, providing basic needs assistance, counseling, credit recovery, college/career planning, etc.
$598,898 spent$231,621 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $598,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $305k to $467k (+53%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2024 14% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Amanda Sappa
CEO and president
Board chair
Richard V Wicka
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $165k → $228k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 THE TWIN CITIES’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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
50% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 70% · 2020 42% · 2021 33% · 2022 28% · 2023 44% — 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
60% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
50% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES'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 $753k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755k 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES: 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,508,000 to it, the largest being THE HUBBARD BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ($450,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,508,000 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES?
- THE HUBBARD BROADCASTING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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