California · Nonprofit
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,219,656 to it, the largest being CORDELIA CORP ($10,000,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $49M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Alder Graduate School of Education does
Mission
To create opportunity and cultivate success for every student by recruiting and educating excellent teachers and leaders who reflect our schools' communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Alder Graduate School of Education works to support education organizations in developing their teacher, principal and/ or leader pipelines; to serve as an educational organization providing support and services to students through course instruction at the post-secondary level towards postgraduate degrees, certifications and continuing education, in particular for teachers, principals, and leaders; to provide training and development for mentors; to provide educational forums, classes, workshops, trainings, resources, support, opportunities and other charitable activities to promote education and learning; and to provide job training, in particular for those in low-income and socially and economically disadvantaged communities.
$17,887,581 spentof which $3,945,590 as grants$12,847,849 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,887,581.
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 2023 to 2024, from $33M to $50M (+52%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Heather Kirkpatrick
President & CEO
Board chair
Stu Mclaughlin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $5.7M.
15 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 49 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 20% 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
40% 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.
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
67% of ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 84% 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
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,219,656 to it, the largest being CORDELIA CORP ($10,000,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $49,219,656 in grants to ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, 41 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 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing