California · Nonprofit
Charlotte Wood Charger Fund
Charlotte Wood Charger Fund (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,727 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($99,201). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $210k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $161k
What Charlotte Wood Charger Fund does
Mission
The Charlotte Wood Charger Fund is a volunteer-run, non-profit (501c3) affiliate of the San Ramon Valley Education Fund, dedicated to enhancing the quality of education at Charlotte Wood Middle School in Danville, CA.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Charger Fund supports two primary areas, Class Size Reduction and Technology.Class Size Reduction:Charger Fund donations help to reduce class sizes resulting in fewer students in the following classes: All 6th Grade Core classes All 7th Grade English and History classes All 8th Grade English and History classes All Math classes All Science classesSmaller class sizes allow for fewer distractions and more individualized, hands-on and creative learning.
$200,075 spentof which $200,075 as grants$209,666 earned by the program100% of program spendingTechnology: There is NO state funding for school technology.Funding from Parent donations helps to provide current technology to support todays learning environments.Historically, technology expenditures are used for these purposes: Laptop computers for Science, 8th Grade English, 6th Grade Core, Math classes, Computer Lab iPads/Projectors for 8th grade History, 7th grade Core, Science Dept. Computers & iPad for Special Ed and Speech programs Training, support & maintenance
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $200,075.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $191k to $102k (−46%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $24k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 Charlotte Wood Charger Fund’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
Charlotte Wood Charger Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Charlotte Wood Charger Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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
98% of Charlotte Wood Charger Fund'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like Charlotte Wood Charger Fund
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
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 Charlotte Wood Charger Fund: 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 Charlotte Wood Charger Fund?
- Charlotte Wood Charger Fund (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,727 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($99,201). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Charlotte Wood Charger Fund have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $117,727 in grants to Charlotte Wood Charger Fund, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Charlotte Wood Charger Fund?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $99,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Charlotte Wood Charger Fund 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 7 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