California · Nonprofit
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,344,926 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,700,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation does
Mission
CDE Foundation works as a trusted partner with state education leaders and entities to create, resource, and implement solutions that result in a strong and valued public education system that serves every student in California.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educator Workforce Investment Grant for Computer Science (EWIG): Our STEAM Initiatives team is a partner with UCLA, Sacramento County Office of Education and the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools in supporting the State EWIG program for computer Science. We support the implementation of the Seasons of CS professional learning effort, a research-backed professional learning program for teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and counselors working in California public schools. Seasons of CS offers regional and statewide multi-day in-person and virtual workshops to bring accessible, equitable computer science education practices to California educators. Participants are given tools, training and a network of support including stipends for participation.
$3,598,704 spent47% of program spendingCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation serves as a fiscal manager for the California Department of Education (CDE) and provides fiscal oversight and grants management for a large number of grants. The primary programs CDE Foundation supported as a fiscal manager during FYE 6.30.25 include Blue Shield of CA funded Youth Mental Health programs, Gates Foundation funded Cradle to Career data support, Math Framework and Career Pathways initiatives, Sobrato Foundation funded Multilingual support, College Futures Foundation funded Dual Enrollment initiative, among others.
$1,690,623 spent$463,123 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe Residency Lab - The Residency Lab connects and strengthens university and school district partners who are preparing effective teachers through high-quality clinical experiences. Lab participants learn from one another and from experts, strengthen their intra program partnerships and residency programs, and engage in formal and informal networking to support continuous improvement. The Lab is designed to help partners accelerate the progress of their respective programs while collectively advancing a vision for high-quality residences that incorporate research-based characteristics. During fiscal year 2025, the Lab conducted various webinars and events on a variety of topics to support the Teacher Residencies. In addition, the Lab is the primary technical assistance provider to the State Residency Technical Assistance Center based at the Santa Clara County Office of Education.
$842,989 spent$597,543 earned by the program11% of program spendingOther Programs include the CA STEAM Initiatives, which includes the CA STEAM Symposium that brings together thousands of teachers, administrators, students, higher education representatives, program providers, philanthropic representatives, and industry representatives to engage them in STEM/STEAM education by providing strategies and resources for program implementation and peer led learning.
$815,722 spent$863,009 earned by the program11% of program spendingCalifornia Family and Community engagement Initiative:The California Family and Community Engagement Initiative (CA FACE), is committed to statewide leadership, guidance, and support in promoting family and community engagement empowering educators, county offices of education, local education agencies, and families to build strong two-way home-school partnerships.We accomplish this in three key ways. 1) Increase awareness of family engagement resources and best practices to empower Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and County Offices of Education (COEs) to foster positive home/school partnerships that bolster student outcomes. 2) Advocate for culturally responsive family engagement policies and practices at the local, county, and state levels. 3) Expand access to evidence-based family engagement resources, support, and promising practices for and from LEAs, COEs, and Statewide Family Engagement Partner organizations.
$398,325 spent$55,460 earned by the program5% of program spendingThe Labor Management Initiative (CA LMI): CA LMI engages labor-management teams in exploring research and best practices to build enduring cross-sector union-management partnerships in California public schools. Since 2015 the CA LMI has convened over 170 district and county labor management teams across California to advance collaboration and continuous improvement through peer learning networks and training. CA LMI holds an annual Summer Institute as well as various convenings and events throughout the state where district and County Office labor-management teams learn together, discuss, collaborate and plan.
$384,604 spent$405,433 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,730,967.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.4M to $9.7M (+311%).
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.
62% of Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Ed Honowitz
CEO
Board chair
Nancy Kirshner-Rodriguez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.7M.
9 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 58% · 2019 47% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 38% · 2023 35% — 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
21% of Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
87% of Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation
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
92% 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 Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation: 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 Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation?
- Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,344,926 to it, the largest being SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,700,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $25,344,926 in grants to Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation?
- SERGEY BRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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