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CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,590 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($256,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $863k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $945k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What California Council on Economic Education does
Mission
The mission of the California Council on Economic Education is to improve california's economic future by teaching economics and financial literacy, especially in under-served communities. Ccee provides a broad range of resources and training to k-12 grade teachers and students throughout california to enhance economic and financial fluency for teachers, students and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student contests comprise a growing number of events held throughout the year, including the personal finance challenge, the national economics challenge, the financial adviser's contest and the stock market game. These events reach thousands of students each year and provide novel experiences for students to apply their learning in non-classroom settings, be mentored by financial professionals, spend time in real-world applications of the material, and enjoy a competitive experience with other similar students across the state. The in-person finals for these culminate in an on-site experience, typically held at a branch location of the federal reserve bank of san francisco.
$53,593 spent9% of program spendingThe never too young program is an after-school elementary-level initiative designed to build real-world understanding of personal finance, economics, and entrepreneurship in schools with the greatest needs. All participating students live in low-to-moderate income communities and are on the free and reduced lunch program. Developed in response to growing demand for financial education outside the traditional classroom, the program runs six to eight weeks and covers banking basics, credit, opportunity cost, needs vs. Wants, and the cost of running a business all culminating in a "market day" where students showcase their own ventures. Throughout the process, students apply mathematical reasoning, resource optimization, and systems-level thinking as they plan and manage their businesses, developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills alongside key stem competencies. By the end of the program, students leave with a stronger sense of personal financial responsibility and a working understanding of the economic concepts that underpin our monetary system.
$15,029 spent2% of program spendingFamily financial fun nights (fffn) are a school-site program intended primarily for elementary school sites. These events bring together young students and their parents, families and the extended school community for activity-driven exchanges on foundational personal finance concepts such as needs vs wants, budgeting, saving, career planning and more. Ccee has worked with our affiliate centers to provide multiple such events at schools in low-to-moderate income (*lmi) communities across orange and san diego counites with plans to reach more schools and communities in need across the state.
$9,000 spent1% of program spendingAll other programs. Targeted between middle school and elementary.
$528,642 spent87% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $606,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $999k to $1.5M (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Denise Gutierrez
President and CEO
Board chair
Stephen Sherline
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $48k → $146k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION’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
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 47% · 2019 62% · 2020 60% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
71% of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k 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.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: 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 CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $944,590 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($256,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $944,590 in grants to CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $256,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 19 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