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Bear Valley USD Education Foundation

Bear Valley USD Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($103). 1 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
$141k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$103
Net assets
$4.0M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Bear Valley USD Education Foundation does

Mission

Support Bear Valley USD Students by providing supplemental funds for educational programs and creating additional resources for extra curricular activities and resources for students and the community

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community members came to the Foundation right after we received the property from the school district and asked that we consider constructing an aquatic center for the community. There was sufficient interest that we formed a working group to study the feasibility. We funded a focused feasibility study which presented the construction and operating costs for several options. The Foundation funded a preliminary design for the selected option and a fundraising study to determine if sufficient donors could be found to fund the construction cost of $45 million. The fundraising consultant attempted to locate donors to finance this amount but were unable to find a lead donor to get the fundraising process going. The Foundation decided the project was financially unfeasible and suspended it pending a lead donor. We have been unable to identify donors and have decided to cancel the program.

    $70,591 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. We continue to maintain the trail system and have allowed several charity running and biking events to be held. The design of our Youth Sports Complex has been completed along with the environmental review process. A Mitigated Negative Declaration was approved by the School District in December and recorded with the County. The required permits from the County of San Bernardino and the State Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) were in the final phase of the approval process at the end of the fiscal year. Construction is expected to begin early in the next fiscal year.

    $5,264 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. Our youth sports complex project will construct three full size baseball/softball fields and seven soccer fields of varying sizes to meet the needs of our local youth sports leagues. The project has completed environmental review and the state permitting process and is under review by the County of San Bernardino for a grading permit. The construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2025. The speed at which construction will proceed will depend on donations, both monetary as well as labor and equipment.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,855.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 38 ($1.0M) Expenses 638 ($31k) Net assets 135 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 2 ($47k) Expenses 1375 ($67k) Net assets 130 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 9 ($243k) Expenses 334 ($16k) Net assets 142 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 5 ($141k) Expenses 3532 ($172k) Net assets 141 ($4.0M)2025 Revenue 5 ($141k) Expenses 1605 ($78k) Net assets 143 ($4.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (5)Expenses (1605)Net assets (143)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $3.9M (+37%).

$2.8M
$3.9M
$3.6M
$4.0M
$4.0M
$4.0M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

53% of Bear Valley USD Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.7M
’20
$984k
’21
−$21k
’22
$227k
’23
−$32k
’24
$63k
’25
31
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed799777
Joined·+2+9+1+0+2
No longer listed·09302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $24 → $43.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 1 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 Bear Valley USD Education Foundation’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Bear Valley USD Education Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Bear Valley USD Education Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve31.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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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

7
board members
43%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bear Valley Unified School District · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bear Valley USD Education Foundation?
Bear Valley USD Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $103 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($103). 1 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 Bear Valley USD Education Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $103 in grants to Bear Valley USD Education Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bear Valley USD Education Foundation?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bear Valley USD Education Foundation 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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