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Core Districts

To assist participating school districts to work together to innovate, implement and scale new strategies and tools to help students succeed and meet the challenges of the 21st century.

$339k
Granted FY2023
2
Itemized grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$38k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$26,250
Largest grant, FY2023
$26,250
Organizations funded a year
2 to 26
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$6.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Core Districts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20232$38k50%
FY202215$94k7%
FY202126$233k73%
FY201913$65kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Education$420kRecreation & Sports$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grossmont Union High School District$16,0002n/a
Van Nuys High School$11,0003n/a
Escondido Union High School District$10,0001n/a

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.

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About Core Districts

How much does Core Districts give?
Core Districts reported 2 itemized grants totaling $38,250, out of $339,375 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Core Districts fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (98%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Core Districts's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Grossmont Union High School District ($16k), Van Nuys High School ($11k), Escondido Union High School District ($10k).
Does Core Districts fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Core Districts based?
Core Districts 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 34 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $347k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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