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Madera County Schools Foundation

The specific purpose of this corporation is to supplement and support the activities and purposes of the Madera County Board of Education, the Madera County Office of Education and the public schools in Madera County.The Foundation exists to support the academic and arts achievements of the students of Madera County. Each year over 500…

$2k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
33%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$750
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$141k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 33% of the organizations Madera County Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
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
FY20213$2k33%
FY20205$2k60%
FY20195$3k20%
FY20186$6k50%
FY20174$4kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

Individual grant recipient$750
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500

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How do I get to Madera County Schools Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Madera County Schools Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Madera County Schools Foundation

How much does Madera County Schools Foundation give?
Madera County Schools Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,750 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Madera County Schools Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (94%).
Does Madera County Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Madera County Schools Foundation based?
Madera County Schools Foundation 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 12 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $6k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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