California · Public charity
Excellence in Education
To enhance public education within the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District to strengthen the learning experience for students.
- $422k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $403k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $36,640
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $346,792
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Excellence in Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $403k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $248k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $229k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $98k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $254k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $286k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $225k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $233k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tahoe Truckee Unified School District | $1,731,422 | 9 | n/a |
| Aim High for High School | $155,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships | $87,334 | 5 | 6% |
| Arts Collaborative of Nevada County | $73,328 | 2 | 13% |
| Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe | $55,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House | $41,244 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Resource Center of Truckee | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Excellence in Education
- How much does Excellence in Education give?
- Excellence in Education reported 3 itemized grants totaling $403,432, out of $422,304 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Excellence in Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Environment (4%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Excellence in Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tahoe Truckee Unified School District ($1.7M), Aim High for High School ($155k), Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships ($87k).
- Does Excellence in Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Excellence in Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation, Tahoe Community Foundation.
- Where is Excellence in Education based?
- Excellence in Education is based in CA.
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