City Year, Inc.

City Year, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit organization, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants under AmeriCorps programs and as a sub-recipient of AmeriCorps competitive grants funneled through state commissions and offices, placing service members in public schools nationwide to provide tutoring, mentoring, and attendance support to high-need students. The organization holds no federal contracts; its federal footprint is entirely grant-driven, with 76% of awards structured as sub-grants flowing through state AmeriCorps administrators rather than direct federal funding.

City Year's grant portfolio centers on the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Office of Grants Management, which accounts for 70 of the organization's 87 total federal awards. The remaining 16 awards split across the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (6 awards), the Corporation for National and Community Service proper (6 awards), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs (2 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (1 award). Two recent direct prime grants from the Department of Education illustrate the organization's direct federal footprint: a $790,000 project grant for whole-school, whole-child support in Providence and Central Falls, Rhode Island (July 13, 2026, through June 30, 2030, under CFDA 84.215) and a $700,000 grant for New Hampshire's 7-Year Promise Program (July 13, 2026, through June 30, 2030, also under CFDA 84.215). A larger prime award from the CNCS Office of Grants Management (July 1, 2024) provided $18.781 million for the 2026–27 program year under AmeriCorps National Direct, with forward funding supporting member living allowances and education awards.

The bulk of City Year's federal funding flows as sub-grants from state intermediaries — primarily the Massachusetts Service Alliance ($4.4 million matched in the Greater Boston program), Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism, Volunteer Tennessee, the OneSTAR National Service Commission (Texas), Florida Commission on Community Service, the Washington State Office of Financial Management, and state United Way and community service commissions. Representative sub-award work includes: 155 full-time and 30 three-quarter-time AmeriCorps members in 25 greater Boston public schools serving 1,900 students (July 2025 and July 2024 awards from Massachusetts Service Alliance); 70 AmeriCorps members in 7 Seattle public schools mentoring 540 students (August 2026 award from Washington State); 100 AmeriCorps members across nine San Antonio public schools serving 1,056 students in literacy and math improvement (July 2023 award from OneSTAR); and programming in Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Kansas City, Memphis, Miami, Jacksonville, and Orlando managed through state administrative pass-throughs. The organization reported $567 million in combined dollars obligated across all awards, though this reflects the cumulative value of multi-year AmeriCorps support flowing both to City Year as direct prime recipient and through it as a sub-recipient deploying members.

Activity has accelerated sharply. City Year received 4 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 20 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 20 in 2026 — indicating growth driven primarily by expanded AmeriCorps member deployment across new and existing school districts. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, positioning the organization with minimal recompete exposure in that window. City Year operates exclusively within the AmeriCorps federal service framework and does not hold GSA contracts, IDIQs, or other traditional procurement vehicles. The organization's capacity and reach are defined by its ability to recruit, place, and supervise AmeriCorps members in high-poverty school districts, where it provides in-class and after-school tutoring, mentoring, attendance monitoring, and social-emotional development services aligned to federal education and national service priorities.