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Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High

Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,183 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,246). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$387k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$72k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High does

Mission

The mission of the Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High School is to assist the Santa Cruz High School music department and the school administration to ensure the highest quality music education program possible for a total of 82 band members in 2024-25. We promote and encourage student cultural enrichment through appreciation of fine music. Support activities include financial support, fundraising support, communications with members, volunteer support of performances and publicity for music program events and opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Boosters pay for the transportation, food and lodging when the Jazz Band, Concert Band, Drum Line or Color Guard attend competitions or performances.

    $271,763 spent$185,738 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Other direct program expenses including composition, band camp, awards and supplies

    $34,189 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Supplemental Instructors-The Band Boosters pay for additional instructors to help the band director train students for Jazz Band, Concert Band, Drum Line, Color Guard and Bagpipes

    $26,258 spent
    8% of program spending
  4. Uniforms for 82 band members-The Band Boosters pay to repair, clean and replace uniforms when needed. The Boosters also buy new uniforms for color guard competitions.

    $11,092 spent
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $343,302.

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 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 99 ($85k) Expenses 117 ($81k) Net assets 113 ($32k)2019 Revenue 156 ($134k) Expenses 194 ($135k) Net assets 109 ($31k)2020 Revenue 128 ($110k) Expenses 137 ($95k) Net assets 162 ($45k)2021 Revenue 51 ($44k) Expenses 66 ($46k) Net assets 154 ($43k)2022 Revenue 270 ($232k) Expenses 274 ($190k) Net assets 303 ($85k)2023 Revenue 412 ($354k) Expenses 555 ($386k) Net assets 190 ($53k)2024 Revenue 199 ($171k) Expenses 265 ($184k) Net assets 144 ($40k)2025 Revenue 450 ($387k) Expenses 510 ($355k) Net assets 258 ($72k)
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Revenue (450)Expenses (510)Net assets (258)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 $43k to $85k (+97%).

$28k
$32k
$31k
$45k
$43k
$85k
$75k
$41k
$74k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$4k
’18
−$1k
’19
$15k
’20
−$2k
’21
$42k
’22
−$32k
’23
−$13k
’24
$32k
’25
2.4
months of
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.

202220232025
Listed763
Joined·+4·
No longer listed·5·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $8k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High’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

Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

100% 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 Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High.

40%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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 Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High'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 $102 that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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

Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High?
Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,183 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($18,246). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $45,183 in grants to Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,246 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Band Boosters of Santa Cruz High 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 6 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