SAN FRANCISCO COALITION OF ESSENTIAL SMALL SCHOOLS

San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (SF‑CESS) is a Bay Area nonprofit founded to provide coaching, technical assistance, and equity‑centered professional development to schools and school leaders. The organization focuses on school design, inquiry‑based instruction, and equity work aimed at interrupting patterns of educational inequity. This profile was prepared after verifying the organization’s EIN (56‑2544544) against its public IRS Form 990 filings and nonprofit registries; the EIN corresponds to San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools. In the fiscal year ending June 2023 (Form 990 filed May 15, 2024) SF‑CESS reported program‑focused revenue of approximately $764,763 and continued to operate as a donor‑facing nonprofit with current state registration. SF‑CESS runs week‑long institutes, ongoing coaching engagements, and equity‑centered protocols (including an Equity‑Centered Critical Friends Tuning Protocol) for district and school partners. In recent years the organization has continued to deliver program services to Bay Area schools and has engaged in municipal subcontracting to expand its reach into city‑supported youth and after‑school programs.