California · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO
ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,026 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($117,962). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $768k
What Advocates for Language Learning El Marino does
Mission
We raise the funds to pay 100% of the salaries for our adjuncts (native language support providers) in every classroom at el marino language school. To help support language learning, we also provide cultural enrichment classes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student welfare: providing classroom aides and other support for each classroom in grades k through 5. Adies assist with the children's education, including language acquisition and cultural understanding to support bilingual, bi-literate, and bi-cultural education.
$298,711 spent73% of program spendingTo help support language learning, we also provide various after school programs to our students.
$106,763 spent$123,410 earned by the program26% of program spendingGrants to support education: given annually to the culver city community scholarship fund in support of a culver city high school student.
$2,100 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $407,574.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $82k to $349k (+326%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Andie Breihan
Fundraise Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $34k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2020 50% · 2021 73% · 2022 61% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $53k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO?
- ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,026 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($117,962). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $222,026 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $117,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING EL MARINO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing