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Anderson Valley Education Foundation

Anderson Valley Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,125 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$122k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$324k
Net assets
$333k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Anderson Valley Education Foundation does

Mission

Charitable education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Awarded $55,500 to 18 students to attend 4-year programs at colleges in CA and OR, vocational programs,and community college. These funds will distributed over the next two years.

    $50,735 spentof which $50,695 as grants
    45% of program spending
  2. Awarded grants to fund a wide variety of activities including a trip for 12 high school students to Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a 3-day trip to the Mendocino Woodlands for an outdoor educational experience for sixth graders. Other trips included one for 8 high school students to a donkey sanctuary, to Tahoe for a snow adventure, and 6 students to Indianapolis for the FFA National convention. Grants were also awarded for the purchase of microscopes for first graders and binoculars for third graders to enhance their science studies.

    $17,472 spentof which $17,432 as grants
    15% of program spending
  3. Fellowship program sent three students to spend summer in Europe - one studying engineering and innovation in Berlin, another fashion design in Paris, and another language and culture in Spain.

    $15,601 spentof which $11,305 as grants
    14% of program spending
  4. Internship Program supported 21 students with summer internships at local businesses in a wide range of jobs - assisting chefs, waiting tables, making cheese, teachers aides, assisting at the local health clinic, working at a horse stable, and assisting the Volunteer Firefighters.

    $29,676 spentof which $29,637 as grants
    26% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,484.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($164k)2018 Revenue 118 ($106k) Expenses 117 ($87k) Net assets 112 ($184k)2019 Revenue 98 ($89k) Expenses 90 ($67k) Net assets 125 ($206k)2020 Revenue 84 ($76k) Expenses 98 ($72k) Net assets 128 ($210k)2021 Revenue 103 ($93k) Expenses 37 ($28k) Net assets 168 ($276k)2022 Revenue 159 ($143k) Expenses 87 ($64k) Net assets 216 ($355k)2023 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 169 ($125k) Net assets 194 ($319k)2024 Revenue 146 ($132k) Expenses 167 ($123k) Net assets 200 ($329k)2025 Revenue 135 ($122k) Expenses 159 ($117k) Net assets 203 ($333k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (159)Net assets (203)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $277k to $358k (+29%).

$165k
$184k
$206k
$210k
$277k
$358k
$319k
$329k
$333k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of Anderson Valley Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$20k
’18
$22k
’19
$4k
’20
$65k
’21
$79k
’22
−$35k
’23
$9k
’24
$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $40k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Anderson Valley Education Foundation’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

Anderson Valley Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% 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 Anderson Valley Education Foundation.

39%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 48% · 2019 57% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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

50% of Anderson Valley Education Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

57% of Anderson Valley Education Foundation'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from California funders.

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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. $184k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Anderson Valley Education Foundation's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

73%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Anderson Valley Education Foundation?
Anderson Valley Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $324,125 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($125,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Anderson Valley Education Foundation have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $324,125 in grants to Anderson Valley Education Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Anderson Valley Education Foundation?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Anderson Valley Education Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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