California · Nonprofit
Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation
Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,328 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $253k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $474k
What Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation supports CART's mission to provide motivation for students to be better learners by creating education relevant to the work force. In partnership with education, business, and community agencies CART provides the resources necessary to help educate students in a cross curricular project-based environment that is academically rigorous, and facilitated though a business based instructional model.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cart achievements include: university of southern california named cart one of the twenty charter schools that has developed leading edge programs that integrate technology with academics; cart was named a microsoft center of excellence; and cart received a golden ball award from the california school boards association for innovative curriculum that contributes to student success.
$180,337 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $180,337.
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 2024 to 2025, from $409k to $477k (+17%).
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.
58% of Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Rick Watson
CEO
Board chair
Todd Cook
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $106.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation’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
Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 96% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328 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
Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Center for Advanced Research & Technology 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
98% 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 Center for Advanced Research & Technology 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 Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation?
- Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,328 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,328 in grants to Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Advanced Research & Technology Foundation?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Advanced Research & Technology 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 2 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