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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.

$79k
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$172k
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%

Against its field

ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 76 ($52k) Expenses 74 ($49k) Net assets 109 ($38k)2019 Revenue 82 ($57k) Expenses 79 ($53k) Net assets 120 ($42k)2020 Revenue 100 ($70k) Expenses 108 ($72k) Net assets 112 ($40k)2022 Revenue 89 ($61k) Expenses 68 ($46k) Net assets 173 ($61k)2023 Revenue 86 ($60k) Expenses 123 ($82k) Net assets 110 ($39k)2024 Revenue 102 ($71k) Expenses 125 ($83k) Net assets 73 ($26k)2025 Revenue 113 ($79k) Expenses 145 ($97k) Net assets 20 ($7k)
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Revenue (113)Expenses (145)Net assets (20)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,667 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
17
$3k
18
$4k
19
$3k
20
$16k
22
$23k
23
$13k
24
$19k
25
02Who funds it

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.

71%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

NC

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.

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.

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

04Profile & governance

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

CA

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.

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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