California · Nonprofit
CHARTERFOLK
CHARTERFOLK (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being Moore Family Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Charterfolk does
Mission
To provide a forum for the people who are the heart of the charter school movement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide a forum for the people who are the heart of the charter school movement. It is a place to convene, to improve our collective intuition about the path forward and to deepen our commitment both to one another and to our shared mission, which is to improve public education for absolutely all students and families in the united states.
$112,040 spentof which $1,039 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,040.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $40k to $18k (−56%).
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.
100% of CHARTERFOLK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kristen Mccaw
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CHARTERFOLK’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
CHARTERFOLK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
CHARTERFOLK draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CHARTERFOLK has grown faster 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 CHARTERFOLK
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARTERFOLK: 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 CHARTERFOLK?
- CHARTERFOLK (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being Moore Family Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARTERFOLK have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to CHARTERFOLK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARTERFOLK?
- Moore Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARTERFOLK 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 2022–2025), 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