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Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc

Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,688 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($1,300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$517k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$1.3M
10/17 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

To support the Carpinteria Unified School District

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants issued to various schools in the cusd for educational programs and materials in which 2750 students participate

    $365,494 spentof which $267,040 as grants
    84% of program spending
  2. Scholarships and awards to cusd students

    $68,955 spentof which $68,955 as grants
    16% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $434,449.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 100 ($200k) Net assets 100 ($710k)2018 Revenue 130 ($251k) Expenses 62 ($124k) Net assets 114 ($810k)2019 Revenue 151 ($291k) Expenses 115 ($230k) Net assets 114 ($806k)2020 Revenue 195 ($377k) Expenses 122 ($244k) Net assets 129 ($914k)2021 Revenue 459 ($886k) Expenses 420 ($843k) Net assets 151 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 211 ($407k) Expenses 200 ($401k) Net assets 140 ($995k)2023 Revenue 134 ($259k) Expenses 102 ($205k) Net assets 155 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 183 ($354k) Expenses 171 ($342k) Net assets 166 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 268 ($517k) Expenses 226 ($454k) Net assets 178 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (268)Expenses (226)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $914k to $1.1M (+17%).

$710k
$811k
$806k
$914k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$126k
’18
$61k
’19
$133k
’20
$44k
’21
$6k
’22
$55k
’23
$12k
’24
$63k
’25
7.5
months of
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

Pam Werner

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131515141312121413
Joined·+2+0+1+0+0+2+3+1
No longer listed·00211212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $125k → $200k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc’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

Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

59%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 67% · 2019 33% · 2020 87% · 2021 90% · 2022 67% · 2023 85% — 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

29% of Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

MN
WI
CA
AZ
NM

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc?
Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,208,688 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($1,300,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,208,688 in grants to Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc?
MANITOU FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc 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 17 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