Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,003,441 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,377,633). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What The Modern Classrooms Project Inc does
Mission
The modern classrooms project empowers educators to build classrooms that respond to every student's needs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Curriculum solutions through the mcp's curriculum solutions program, the modern classrooms project works with partner schools and districts to support their implementation of high-quality curricula through the mcp model.
$3,918,124 spent$1,051,030 earned by the program38% of program spendingVirtual mentorship program this is our flagship program. Educators from around the world enroll in an online course, through which they work hand-in-hand with one of mcp's expert educators to design blended, self-paced, mastery-based instructional materials of their own. Each educator receives one-on-one coaching, feedback on lesson materials, certified credentials, and other support to help implement mcp's instructional model. The modern classrooms project provides a collection of educator-created courses intended for graduates of mcp's virtual mentorship program. These courses push educators to refine their practice with content specific guidance, deep dives into core practices, and more. Mcp also offers a free self paced and self-guided online course that gives any teacher, anywhere, the materials and best practices to launch a modern classroom. Mcp's free course contains every resource, guide, template, and exemplar mcp has ever created for mcp's teachers.
$2,754,179 spent$590,515 earned by the program26% of program spendingPartnership development the modern classrooms project continuously evaluates the effectiveness of its programs and products to ensure it delivers its intended results through an ongoing process of collecting and analyzing data. The organization has been driven by data from the start and collects data from a variety of sources across the year both for evaluative and continuous improvement purposes and by integrating action-oriented data review into its team's standard activities. Through our program development and evaluation work, we assess teacher growth through our virtual mentorship program and free course and use the data to continuously improve the training experience. We seek to understand educator implementation practices and use the data to continuously improve our implementation support services. And we measure the impact of our model on teachers, students, and schools.
$2,277,352 spent22% of program spendingImplementation support: the modern classrooms project work with partner schools and districts to provide: site visits and convenings: conduct classroom visits coupled with in- person gatherings to observe and evaluate implementation, coach teachers, and strengthen leaders' understanding of the model. Instructional leader capacity building: coach leaders as they work to align the mcp model to school and district initiatives and seek to internalize mcp's implementatino rubric as they support their educators. Teacher leadership cultivation: identify elite implementers of the mcp model and coach them through mcp's teacher leadership pathways to build a community of new york city distinguished modern classroom educators and expert mentors. Data, research and evaluation: the modern classrooms project conducts ongoing research and evaluation of mcp's teacher-training efforts. The modern classrooms project also collect and manage data on the progress of participants in mcp's teacher training programs.
$1,471,501 spent$969,860 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,421,156.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $5.5M (+141%).
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 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Tracey Strauss
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 33 funders, grant income rose $10k → $3.7M.
15 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% 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 THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% — 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
70% of THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC?
- THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,003,441 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,377,633). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $14,003,441 in grants to THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,377,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 58 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