Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES RISING INC
COMMUNITIES RISING INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,568,261 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,287,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $44k
What Communities Rising Inc does
Mission
Communities rising (cr) provides quality educational opportunities for all students, with a focus on children from marginalized communities. Our literacy project is a program that teaches english by focusing on phonics and reading. Our after school program provides students in primarily rural villages with a steam+ curriculum. Our robotics program provides hands on lego robotics education with opportunities to compete in national robotics competitions. Our summer camp provides our students with exposure to athletics, the arts, and stem activities in an informal residential environment.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Accelerated learning program: sharing best practices for teaching english, math, and computer education for over 2,000 underserved students and teachers in the villupuram district of tamil nadu.
$44,047 spent33% of program spendingAfter school program: cr provides after school classes at five centers. We align instructional levels to students learning levels, focusing on basic literacy and numeracy skills and emphasize critical thinking instead of memorization.
$44,047 spent33% of program spendingTechnology camps & summer camps: cr is the largest provider of primary school computer education in the villupuram district. Our curriculum includes keyboarding, microsoft word, powerpoint and excel, movie maker , photoshop and lego robotics. In 2018, we opened a tech center in the town of villupuram. Children in grades 3-10 participate in weekly classes learning to build and program robots. This is the only robotics center in a district of over 4 million people. Our staff also travels to three schools to provide on-site robotics classes to approximately 450 students.
$44,047 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,141.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $66k to $34k (−49%).
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 COMMUNITIES RISING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Mccoy
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $35k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 RISING INC’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 RISING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 RISING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 94% · 2022 83% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of COMMUNITIES RISING INC'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 $165k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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 RISING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITIES RISING 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES RISING 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 COMMUNITIES RISING INC?
- COMMUNITIES RISING INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,568,261 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($1,287,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES RISING INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,568,261 in grants to COMMUNITIES RISING INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES RISING INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,287,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES RISING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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