California · Nonprofit
ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS
ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,005 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($122,566). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Monterra Community Fundlocal
- Save the Music Foundationportfolio match
- TF Educational Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
79% of ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS’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
ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 71% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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.
- Monterra Community FundlocalCA · funds 1202 organizations near you
- Save the Music Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TF Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
- ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,005 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($122,566). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $172,005 in grants to ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
- PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $122,566 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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