Unique Leverage: CSF provides matching grants to our local partner programs, offering scholarships in 35 cities and areas nationwide. Each dollar committed by CSF has incredible leverage, since it is matched by local donors and again by the parents of our recipients, who pay about half their tuition from their own pockets.

Program Cost: In Fiscal Year 2009, CSF spent $27.8 million on scholarships for about 29,000 low-income children. When this money was matched with funds raised by our partner programs, the total value of all CSF scholarship award payments came to almost $43.6 million. You can view our most recent IRS 990 form and audited financial statements here.

Funding: CSF enjoys support from a range of foundations and generous individuals. Currently, the organization is on track to sustain the current level of funding for at least the next two years, and we are working with our CSF partner programs on a comprehensive plan that will strengthen our infrastructure and capacity in the years to come.

You can view CSF’s board and staff here, and you can find contact information for all our partner programs here.

Key Donors:
(Contributors who have made lifetime gifts of $1 million or more)

Anonymous
Alive in Hope Foundation
Rose-Marie & Jack R. Anderson Foundation
Archdiocese of Detroit
Mr. Stephen Barney
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Mr. Ronald Burkle
Compostela Fund
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
The Dominick's Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Druckenmiller
The Endowment for Inner-City Education
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
Mr. Nicholas Forstmann
Mr. Theodore J. Forstmann
Futures in Education
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Inner-City Scholarship Fund
Mr. Charles Irby
Kimsey Foundation
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation
Mr. Clark McLeod
The Edgar & Elsa Prince Foundation
Mr. Joseph E. Robert, Jr.
Mr. Julian H. Robertson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rock
Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation
William E. Simon Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
The Winnick Family Foundation