California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS
CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($32,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $808k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $844k
What California Education Works Dba Camino Schools does
Mission
The camino schools is a non-profit organization dedicated to the cultural renewal of california through the founding of great schools. The mission of these schools is to collaborate with parents in the intellectual, moral, physical, and spiritual education of their children.through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum and personal character formation,these schools seek to renew culture by developing children into mature, confident leaders who engage the world with a spirit of freedom, adventure, and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Camino schools achieved a significant increase in enrollment, more than doubling its student population. This substantial growth reflects the strength of the school's educational mission, the confidence families place in its programs, and the increasing demand for its services within the community.
$606,422 spent$479,626 earned by the program80% of program spendingCamino schools successfully acquired a new campus facility located at st. Nicholas catholic church in laguna woods. This new location provides much-needed additional space to support the school's growing enrollment and expanding operations. In addition, the laguna woods campus offers a more convenient location for the majority of the school's families, improving accessibility and better positioning the school to serve its community effectively.
$150,526 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $756,948.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $625k to $1.0M (+67%).
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.
36% of CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Christopher Weir
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS’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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS.
“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
86% of CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS
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
75% 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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS: 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 EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS?
- CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($32,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $72,500 in grants to CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA EDUCATION WORKS DBA CAMINO SCHOOLS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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