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ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC

ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,466 to it, the largest being ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.9M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$16M
4/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What One City Schools Foundation Inc does

Mission

To be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purpose of one city schools, inc.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Solicits funding for and provides support to one city schools, inc.

    $5,017,786 spentof which $4,521,661 as grants$201,862 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,017,786.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($256k) Net assets 100 ($17M)2023 Revenue 34 ($5.8M) Expenses 2438 ($6.3M) Net assets 97 ($16M)2024 Revenue 28 ($4.8M) Expenses 2143 ($5.5M) Net assets 93 ($16M)2025 Revenue 35 ($5.9M) Expenses 1982 ($5.1M) Net assets 98 ($16M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (35)Expenses (1982)Net assets (98)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 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $16M (−6%).

$17M
$17M
$16M
$17M
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$17M
’22
−$454k
’23
−$674k
’24
$825k
’25
2.4
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

Kaleem Caire

Founder/ CEO of one city schools

Board chair

Noble Wray

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

2022202320242025
Listed101097
Joined·+0+1+1
No longer listed·023
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $525k → $741k.

3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $12M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest One City Broadway Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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

ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC.

63%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 72% — 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.

Where its funders are

87% of ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WA
MN
WI
MI
DC

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

’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • One City Schools Inc · exempt
  • One City Broadway Inc · exempt
  • One City Advocates · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,997,466 to it, the largest being ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,997,466 in grants to ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 16 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