California · Nonprofit
ASELTINE SCHOOL
ASELTINE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,919 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($197,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $660k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Aseltine School does
Mission
Special education school for students with learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, autism, intellectual disabilities (mild to moderate) and other health impairments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Students come to Aseltine School with long histories of school failure due to serious behavior problems, deficits in academic skills & knowledge, and/or poor school attendance. They have tried most of the programmatic interventions available in public school programs. Our goal is to bring about dramatic improvement in all of these areas leading/transitioning to a less restrictive educational or vocational setting.we have a dedicated staff of 28 who work to meet the complex needs of 36 students.Aseltine School program overview (description of services)introductionAseltine School embraces a philosophy of uncommon commitment to students with disabilities and their families. We believe that students can become aware of, learn to cope with, & eventually overcome the circumstances or barriers that have limited their progress. We are dedicated to the belief that this can be accomplished by providing a foundation of nurturing support & guidance, combined with imagination, discipline, & challenge. Aseltine School's mission is to educate and empower students to become critical thinkers of the world.Aseltine School strongly supports the idea of cultural pluralism & celebrates the diversity…
$2,099,486 spent$2,332,928 earned by the program100% of program spendingTransition service:when a student has met the criteria for a transition to a less restrictive setting, he or she may choose from a variety of options. These include public school, college, employment & vocational training. We work with students, their families, schools, social service agencies & employers, to support a student's transition to a less restrictive educational/community-based setting.support services:a variety of support services are available to assist students & their families:counseling:student-centered counseling is situational--based on emergent student needs & circumstances. Self-awareness, responsibility, empowerment, problem-solving & the development of personal & social skills are emphasized.speech and language therapyoccupational therapyafter school/outreach programtransportation:transportation is generally provided by the public school districts. Aseltine School may provide transportation for students who miss their buses, for students in transition & for some students involved in the ontreach program.activities:Aseltine School offers a wide range of activities to meet individual student interests & to provide experiences in teamwork, creativity & social…
Our current enrollment lists 36 emotionally disturbed students who were unsuccessful at their former placements in the public arena.the staff is comprised of:2 administrators3 teachers12 teachers aides5 support personnel (4 of whom interact directly with students)2 part-time speech/language therapists1 part-time o.t.1 counselor1 part-time marketing/development coordinator1 custodian
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,099,486.
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.
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 $2.1M to $2.9M (+36%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of ASELTINE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Florida May Padilla
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Spencer
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $67k → $62k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 ASELTINE SCHOOL’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
ASELTINE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 ASELTINE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 30% · 2019 56% · 2020 54% · 2021 27% · 2022 38% · 2023 32% — 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 ASELTINE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
94% of ASELTINE SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ASELTINE SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASELTINE SCHOOL
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASELTINE SCHOOL: 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 ASELTINE SCHOOL?
- ASELTINE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,919 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($197,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASELTINE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $659,919 in grants to ASELTINE SCHOOL, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASELTINE SCHOOL?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASELTINE SCHOOL 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 18 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