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Community Education Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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$581kArts & Culture$31kHealth$11kInternational$10kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
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States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH: $3k → 16%LOS ALTOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOW: $10k → 13%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA: $10k → 9%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $38k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $500 → 8%ALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS: $3k → 6%SAE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CASA: $3k → 15%LOVE FOUNDATION US INC: $10k → 6%LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $38k → 12%LOS ALTOS STAGE CO: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $22k → 12%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%NIACC FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY PTO: $600 → 12%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $3k → 8%LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY: $3k → 8%BUS BARN STAGE CO: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$591k · 6 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$591k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $458k · revenue +20%
  • BB
    Bus Barn Stage Company
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • TL
    THE LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NF
    NIACC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • LF
    LOVE FOUNDATION US INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -89%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Altos Journalism Foundation
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2
Los Alamos Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

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5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
Los Altos Sunset Rotary Club Endowment Fund Inc
Community Improvement
7
California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition
8
Lat Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Lsf Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
11
The Los Altos Library Endowment

The los altos library endowment is dedicated to strengthening the long-term infrastructure of our local libraries. our mission is to fund transformative, enduring capital improvements that elevate the library experience for our community.

Education
12
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Foundation

To invest in innovative hepatology research and in the people who study and treat liver disease.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Altos Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Shp Christian Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $458,047 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYNORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $98,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGENIACC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherNIACC FOUNDATIONETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOW: $10,000 · OtherETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOWLOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT: $9,500 · OtherLOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT+10 more: $30,100 · Other+10 moreASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBus Barn Stage Company: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 · HealthLOVE FOUNDATION US INC: $10,000 · InternationalLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHP CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$458,047Other$167,600Arts & Culture$20,000Health$10,500International$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $458,047 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE FOUNDATION US INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MORNING FORUM OF LOS ALTOS: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSHP CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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