California · Nonprofit
Bay Education Fund
Bay Education Fund (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,300,566 to it, the largest being GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION ($4,650,066). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Bay Education Fund does
Mission
Build a community investment fund that catalyzes local movements and transforms district capacity by bringing together families,communities, teachers, district leaders, and philanthropy to co-design a vision for students and implement proven solutions for change in schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
South San Francisco: In close partnership with South San Francisco Unified School District and community leaders, crafted a comprehensive strategy to make the communitys student vision a reality. The board adopted this strategy with enthusiastic support from the community, and the district has aligned its goals, budget, and staffing resources to the plan. We continue supporting the strategic plans goals through capacity building and partnerships with best-in-class providers who are transforming instruction to be high-quality and student-centered. We continued to train and support family leaders who provided critical input to the strategic plan.
$2,760,356 spentof which $790,698 as grants62% of program spendingRavenswood: Building on the Ravenswood Learner Profile, which engaged over 1,100 students, families, educators, and community leaders to set a unified vision for students, we supported the development of a Community Action Plan, which translated the vision into clear goals and areas for focused improvement. Additionally, over 50 family members participated in our leadership fellowship to deepen their understanding of achievement and opportunity gaps, how school systems work, research about effective schools, and what students need to thrive.
$1,026,610 spent23% of program spendingCambiar Fellowship: In partnership with Cambiar Education, we launched a fellowship for 19 school district leaders in the Bay Area. This leaders met throughout the year to deepen their understanding of best practices, solve problems of practice together, and strengthen relationships across the Bay.
$453,003 spent10% of program spendingProgram Development: We continue to evaluate and codify our work to effectively share learnings with others. Weve documented lessons learned and how theyve improved our practices.
$163,758 spent4% of program spendingSan Mateo-Foster City:We launched our third partnership with the San Mateo Foster City School District. To prepare for this, we spoke with over 70 community leaders to ensure they bought into our approach and learn about what they want to see for their students and schools.
$82,243 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,485,970.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $765k to $3.6M (+371%).
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.
100% of Bay Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $531k → $2.5M.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Bay Education Fund’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
Bay Education Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 53% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Bay Education Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Bay Education Fund has grown faster 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 Bay Education Fund
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
78% 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 Bay Education Fund: 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 Bay Education Fund?
- Bay Education Fund (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,300,566 to it, the largest being GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION ($4,650,066). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bay Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $8,300,566 in grants to Bay Education Fund, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bay Education Fund?
- GIVE FORWARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,650,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bay Education Fund 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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