How much does California Charter Schools Association give?

California Charter Schools Association reported 27 grants totaling $2,510,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does California Charter Schools Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Public Benefit (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).

Who are California Charter Schools Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Charter Schools Association Advocates ($4.5M), Kipp Bay Area Schools ($2.9M), Rocketship Education ($1.6M).

Does California Charter Schools Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as California Charter Schools Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Schools Fund Inc, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.

Where is California Charter Schools Association based?

California Charter Schools Association is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

California Charter Schools Association

To meet parent, educator, and community need for great public school options by supporting and advocating for high quality non-profit charter schools and sharing their success throughout california's public schools.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 27
Grants FY2025: 14
Organizations funded FY2024: 21%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $22,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $393,026
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 25; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $34M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations California Charter Schools Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropySocial ScienceOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	27	$2.5M	44%
FY2024	14	$1.7M	21%
FY2023	19	$1.3M	21%
FY2022	24	$1.3M	29%
FY2021	20	$2.2M	35%
FY2020	21	$2.3M	38%
FY2019	25	$3.0M	56%
FY2018	14	$3.0M	29%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$16MPublic Benefit$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MCivil Rights$755kCrime & Legal$294kPhilanthropy$25kSocial Science$20kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Charter Schools Association Advocates	$4,503,000	9	27%
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$2,941,183	9	1%
Rocketship Education	$1,589,491	6	1%
Summit Public Schools	$1,218,325	5	1%
Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education	$909,580	5	1%
Aspire Public Schools Foundation	$696,275	4	9%
Across the Bridge Foundation Dba Downtown College Preparatory	$662,340	3	2%
River Charter Schools	$540,560	6	3%
Napa Foundation for Options in Education	$511,350	4	16%
Westlake Charter School	$511,112	7	1%

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All grantees of California Charter Schools Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Charter Schools Association Advocates	$4,503,000	9	27%
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$2,941,183	9	1%
Rocketship Education	$1,589,491	6	1%
Summit Public Schools	$1,218,325	5	1%
Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education	$909,580	5	1%
Aspire Public Schools Foundation	$696,275	4	9%
Across the Bridge Foundation Dba Downtown College Preparatory	$662,340	3	2%
River Charter Schools	$540,560	6	3%
Napa Foundation for Options in Education	$511,350	4	16%
Westlake Charter School	$511,112	7	1%
CAS For Safe Schools and Healthy Learning Governor Newsoms BMC	$500,000	1	6%
Odyssey Charter Schools	$393,026	1	3%
Aveson	$371,665	1	4%
Pasadena Rosebud Academy Charter School	$343,105	1	n/a
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools	$316,000	8	2%
The Rocklin Academy	$315,890	4	0%
Alma Fuerte Public School	$283,989	2	5%
Growth Public Schools	$277,636	7	5%
Vista Charter Public Schools Inc	$245,716	5	1%
Voices College-Bound Language Academies	$219,717	5	1%
Ace Charter School	$212,960	4	1%
Navigator Schools	$211,000	2	1%
Alpha Public Schools	$203,590	2	0%
Laurel Leadership Institute	$150,000	1	70%
Time Community Education	$120,000	2	10%
The California Legislative Black Caucus Policy Institute	$116,500	7	1%
Hayward Collegiate Inc	$112,190	2	5%
Oxford Preparatory Academy	$106,960	3	1%
Children's Community Charter School	$100,000	1	n/a
Paradise Charter Middle School	$100,000	1	6%
Opportunity for All Coalition	$100,000	1	66%
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools	$75,000	1	0%
Knowledge Enlightens You	$75,000	2	1%
Thrive Public School	$75,000	2	2%
St Hope Public Schools	$61,540	1	0%
Perseverance Preparatory Inc Case #23-51070	$54,470	3	4%
Equitas Academy Charter School	$52,058	1	0%
Downtown College Prep Foundation	$50,500	1	2%
Achieve Charter School of Paradise	$50,368	1	1%
Hometech Charter School Inc	$50,368	1	3%
Core Butte Inc	$50,368	1	0%
Gateway Community Charters	$50,125	1	0%
Promise Public School	$50,000	2	n/a
Orange County School of the Arts Foundation	$45,000	1	1%
California Lgbtq Foundation	$45,000	3	5%
Orange County Academy of Sciences and Arts Inc	$40,000	1	1%
North Valley Military Institute	$35,977	2	0%
California Jewish Legislative Caucus Leadership Foundation	$30,000	2	3%
Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation	$30,000	3	1%
Women in California Leadership Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Next Generation Education Dba Epic California Academy	$28,830	1	0%
Crete Academy	$28,491	1	1%
University Preparatory Academy	$26,257	2	0%
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc	$25,000	1	0%
New Los Angeles Charter School	$24,275	1	0%
Yu Ming Charter School	$23,230	1	0%
California Problem Solvers Foundation	$20,000	2	2%
Bridges Preparatory Academy	$18,278	2	1%
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School	$17,000	1	1%
Vaughn Next Century Learning Centerfoundation	$15,000	1	16%
California Border Issues Project	$15,000	1	n/a
Kaufman Legal Group	$15,000	1	n/a
Issac Org Inc	$10,360	1	n/a
California Legislative Lgbt Foundat	$10,000	1	n/a
Equal Justice Initiative	$10,000	1	0%
Pueblo y Salud Inc Co Ruben Rodriguez	$10,000	1	1%
California Chamber of Commerce	$10,000	1	0%
California Leadership Institute and Mentoring Bridge (CLIMB)	$10,000	1	n/a
Equality California	$8,000	1	0%
Center for Financial Empowerment	$7,500	1	n/a
James C Ramos California Heritage Indian Collabora	$7,500	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($202k), not named here.

California Charter Schools Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Schools Fund IncCA42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Walton Family Foundation Inc · New Schools Fund · California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems · Girard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · California Fire Foundation · Ca Broadband & Video Association

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About California Charter Schools Association

How much does California Charter Schools Association give?: California Charter Schools Association reported 27 grants totaling $2,510,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does California Charter Schools Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Public Benefit (10%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).
Who are California Charter Schools Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Charter Schools Association Advocates ($4.5M), Kipp Bay Area Schools ($2.9M), Rocketship Education ($1.6M).
Does California Charter Schools Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Charter Schools Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Schools Fund Inc, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.
Where is California Charter Schools Association based?: California Charter Schools Association is based in CA.