TCF receives capital and non-capital donations. Capital donations are for constructing and equipping new schools. As such, these funds are used exclusively for that purpose. Non - capital contributions fall into two categories: zakat and non-zakat funds.

Zakat funds are used to support the education of deserving children. Non-zakat funds are spent on providing all education-related services and facilities to the schools. 

92% of all funding TCF receives is spent on School projects. On the average, the annual administrative expenditure of TCF is 8% - 9% of total donations received.

According to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, directors of The Citizens Foundation can not and do not derive any monetary benefit from the Foundation. On the contrary, the directors invest a lot of their time and resources in managing TCF free of any charge and obligation. It’s pertinent to mention here that the directors are the guiding lights of TCF and entirely committed to leading from the front. 

After funding the entire construction and establishment of the first five schools, the directors have continued to make significant regular financial contributions to TCF.

As of 2007, TCF has 343 primary and 112 secondary school units spread over 55 locations.

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a.  Teachers are selected strictly on merit. All posts are advertised in newspapers. Applications are vetted against announced criteria. All acceptable candidates are invited through individual letters for interview. The interview is conducted by a panel.  Selected candidates are then issued formal appointment letters.

b.  All selected teachers, regardless of their academic or teaching qualifications and experience are given extensive initial training at TCF’s Teacher Training Centre in Karachi or by our master trainers in other locations for a period of four weeks (approx: 110-120 hrs.). All in-service teachers are given annual developmental training to update their knowledge and equip them with latest teaching skills.

c.  All employees of TCF, including  teachers, are paid regular salaries. The salary of a teacher is fixed on the basis of her academic and teaching qualifications, teaching experience, and potential. In addition to their salaries, the teachers get paid holidays, pick and drop facilities, and their children receive special fee concessions.

d.  The acceptable level of qualification has been established on the basis of the classes that selected teachers are likely to be assigned. At the primary level, the minimum qualification is matriculation whereas at the secondary level, it is graduation. All principals and English language teachers must also be graduates. Please note that these are minimum qualifications. However, TCF has many teachers with master's degrees teaching at the primary level.

The Citizens Foundation has evolved an effective system to monitor and evaluate its programme activities. This system is fine-tuned regularly to ensure its efficacy and relevance.

Each school and its faculty is evaluated by a team of evaluators. All aspects of the school including its administration and performance of its faculty are evaluated on the basis of set criteria. This performance evaluation helps us in upgrading our systems, career planning of our academic staff and designing the annual refresher training for our faculty. The quest for excellence is an incessant process at TCF.

Scholarships are awarded on the basis of need. Need is judged by calculating the overall household income of each family and its education related expenses with the objective of making education affordable for every student. All applicants for financial assistance fill in a printed form providing all necessary details about their family and resources. The school staff  then, through visits to the applicants' homes, verifies this information.  Finally TCF principals send the completed scholarship forms, along with their recommendations to their respective Regional Offices where the final decision is taken.

Scholarships are given for one academic year and the recipients are eligible to reapply. Deserving students get uniforms and textbooks free of cost. Others are provided the facility of purchasing uniforms and textbooks on easy installments. This facility is offered to reduce the financial burden on parents at the beginning of the academic year, a time when they have to buy uniforms and textbooks for all their school-going children.