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Costa Education Fund

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$29k
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$29,090
Largest grant, FY2018
$29,090
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Costa Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$29k0%
FY201720$274kn/a
48% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Recreation & Sports$169kEducation$84kReligion$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Opportunity Camp$169,090277%
Berean Christian High School of Contra Costa County$12,0001n/a
Legacy Christian School Inc$12,0001n/a
Hilltop Christian School$12,0001n/a
Christ the King$12,0001n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Costa Education Fund

How much does Costa Education Fund give?
Costa Education Fund reported 1 grants totaling $29,090 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Costa Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (56%), Education (28%), Religion (4%).
Who are Costa Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Opportunity Camp ($169k), Berean Christian High School of Contra Costa County ($12k), Legacy Christian School Inc ($12k).
Does Costa Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Costa Education Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Costa Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Costa Education Fund based?
Costa Education Fund 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 20 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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