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ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,732,156 to it, the largest being CORDELIA CORP ($10,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$25M
Revenue FY2025
44
Funders on record
$47M
Grants received
$54M
Net assets
36/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%

Against its field

ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($6.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2019 Revenue 97 ($5.9M) Expenses 173 ($6.4M) Net assets 90 ($4.8M)2020 Revenue 229 ($14M) Expenses 239 ($8.9M) Net assets 187 ($9.9M)2021 Revenue 277 ($17M) Expenses 294 ($11M) Net assets 301 ($16M)2022 Revenue 430 ($26M) Expenses 411 ($15M) Net assets 510 ($27M)2023 Revenue 344 ($21M) Expenses 440 ($16M) Net assets 599 ($32M)2024 Revenue 537 ($33M) Expenses 481 ($18M) Net assets 898 ($48M)2025 Revenue 415 ($25M) Expenses 540 ($20M) Net assets 1012 ($54M)
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Revenue (415)Expenses (540)Net assets (1012)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 16% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 28% · 2023 33% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

40% of ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
18
$511k
19
$5.2M
20
$6.0M
21
$11M
22
$4.8M
23
$15M
24
$5.3M
25
4.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $5.7M.

14 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)34% 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 ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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

ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

42% 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 ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION.

21%
largest funder
47%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 24%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

72% of ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
NV
CA
DE
AR

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 44 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.7M on record.

Federal$30.7M
grants $30.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$30.7M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION?
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,732,156 to it, the largest being CORDELIA CORP ($10,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $46,732,156 in grants to ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION?
CORDELIA CORP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 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.

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 44funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing