California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY
CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,385 to it, the largest being THE RALPH M PARSONS FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $455k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What California Creative Learning Academy does
Mission
California Creative Learning Academy is a california public charter school, organized for the purpose of serving a socio-economically, ethnically and linguistically diverse population in the northeast corner of urban los angeles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operates and manages a charter school serving students in the northeastern region of urban los angeles. The organization has two schools, California Creative Learning Academy and California Creative Learning Academy middle school, which operated for 177 instructional days in 2024-25. The school served approximately 410 students in 2024-25.
$6,311,937 spent$328,720 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,311,937.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $11M (+108%).
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: 2017 86% · 2018 89% · 2019 88% · 2020 84% · 2022 93% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY’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 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
Linda Lee
Executive director / principal
Board chair
Betsy Chapman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 53% · 2019 74% · 2020 41% · 2021 91% · 2022 64% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
91% of CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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
CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY
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 CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY: 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 CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY?
- CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,385 to it, the largest being THE RALPH M PARSONS FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $455,385 in grants to CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY?
- THE RALPH M PARSONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA CREATIVE LEARNING ACADEMY 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 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