California · Nonprofit
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,407,954 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,963,985). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75M
- Funders on record
- 137
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $120M
What Brentwood School does
Mission
Brentwood inspires every student to think critically and creatively, act ethically, and shape a future with meaning. The core values are trust, respect, responsibility, honesty, caring, community, and diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brentwood School is a vibrant and diverse community whose purpose is to promote personal and intellectual growth. The school provides challenging, engaging programs in a nurturing learning environment, devoting care and attention to every student. Brentwood School's operations principally consist of providing educational services to its students. The school's total enrollment is approximately 1,242 students, with 939 students in upper and middle schools and 303 students in the lower school. Of the total enrollment in the 2024-25 school year, 207 received financial support. Each year in grades 6-12, over 400 courses are offered, including approximately 30 ap courses. The average number of students per grade for the upper and middle schools is 134 students. The 2024-25 graduating class was 136 students. For the lower school, there are approximately 50 students per grade.
$58,801,226 spentof which $8,473,336 as grants$66,561,678 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,801,226.
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 2018 to 2019, from $117M to $152M (+30%).
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.
8% of BRENTWOOD SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Adam Cohn
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 50 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $4.3M.
19 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 funders by total. 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
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
36% 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 25% · 2020 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of BRENTWOOD SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
65% of BRENTWOOD 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. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BRENTWOOD 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
76% 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 BRENTWOOD 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL?
- BRENTWOOD SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,407,954 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,963,985). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRENTWOOD SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $31,407,954 in grants to BRENTWOOD SCHOOL, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRENTWOOD SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,963,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRENTWOOD 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 137 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing