California · Nonprofit
California League of Middle Schools
California League of Middle Schools (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $236 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($236). 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
- $695k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $236
- Net assets
- $-73331
What California League of Middle Schools does
Mission
The purpose of the Organization is to improve the education experience of middle school, high school, and elementary students in California by helping educator improve student learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Organization is a nonprofit educators association encompassing communities of middle schools, high schools and elementry schools. They are dedicated to helping educators improve student learning through useful, evidence-based professional development and other resources. The Organization promotes the understanding of education and developmental needs of youth between the ages of 10-18 during their middle & high school years; serve as a clearing house for the open exchange of ideas, materials and personnel as a means of mutually supporting growth among middle and high school students.
$577,315 spent$513,865 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $577,315.
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. 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 $432k to $217k (−50%).
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: 2018 54% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 57% · 2022 36% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of California League of Middle 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. 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
Cathy Perry
Executive Director
Board chair
Martinrex Kedziora
CLS Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $49 → $58.
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 California League of Middle 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.
Where its funders are
100% of California League of Middle 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236 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.
Against its field
California League of Middle Schools's revenue fell 63% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding California League of Middle Schools receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Education$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like California League of Middle 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 League of Middle 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 League of Middle Schools?
- California League of Middle Schools (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $236 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($236). 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 California League of Middle Schools have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $236 in grants to California League of Middle Schools, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California League of Middle Schools?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California League of Middle 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.
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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 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