California · Nonprofit
ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,258 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ($89,885). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $250k
What Assist a Grad Scholarship Foundation Inc does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose - to award scholarships to high school graduates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Scholarships are awarded to local high school graduates chosen by an awards committee, which consists of the donors and the board of governors, recipients are chosen based on scholastic achievements and financial needs. Total scholarships awarded for 2023/2024 was 134.
$168,483 spentof which $125,216 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $168,483.
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 $292k to $244k (−16%).
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.
98% of ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $56k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC’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
ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 64% · 2020 89% · 2021 66% · 2022 35% · 2023 52% — 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
100% of ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: 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 ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
- ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,258 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ($89,885). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $202,258 in grants to ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
- FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $89,885 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSIST A GRAD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC 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 7 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