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California · Public charity

Challenge Success

Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.

$39k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$27,250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Total assets, FY2021
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Challenge Success funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$39k67%
FY20201$6k100%
FY20192$11kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sage Ridge School$11,20020%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

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About Challenge Success

How much does Challenge Success give?
Challenge Success reported 3 grants totaling $38,850 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Challenge Success fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (51%).
Who are Challenge Success's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Sage Ridge School ($11k).
Does Challenge Success fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Challenge Success based?
Challenge Success is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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