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E3 CIVIC HIGH

E3 CIVIC HIGH (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,108 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.5M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$2.2M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What E3 Civic High does

Mission

The mission of E3 Civic High is to engage, educate, and empower our learning community to be caring, passionate, life-long learners and civic leaders prepared for college, workforce, and life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To manage and operate a charter school providing educational opportunities to students in the 9th-12th grade from the surrounding commmunity. For year ended june 30, 2025 the organization served approximately 359 students.

    $6,195,953 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,195,953.

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 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 102 ($5.3M) Expenses 103 ($5.0M) Net assets 113 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 96 ($5.0M) Expenses 111 ($5.4M) Net assets 95 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 99 ($5.1M) Expenses 112 ($5.4M) Net assets 82 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 126 ($6.5M) Expenses 114 ($5.5M) Net assets 126 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 123 ($6.4M) Expenses 131 ($6.3M) Net assets 128 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 134 ($6.9M) Expenses 143 ($6.9M) Net assets 130 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 139 ($7.2M) Expenses 162 ($7.8M) Net assets 101 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 145 ($7.5M) Expenses 157 ($7.6M) Net assets 98 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (157)Net assets (98)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 2023 to 2024, from $4.4M to $3.4M (−23%).

$2.7M
$3.0M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$3.5M
$3.9M
$4.4M
$3.4M
$3.0M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of E3 CIVIC HIGH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$337k
’17
$289k
’18
−$405k
’19
−$301k
’20
$1.0M
’21
$49k
’22
$51k
’23
−$673k
’24
−$74k
’25
2.6
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

Brett Taylor

CEO

Board chair

Ginny Merifield

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1210101091181012
Joined·+0+2+3+0+3+1+2+4
No longer listed·22311402
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

Funder
'20
'21
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 E3 CIVIC HIGH’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

E3 CIVIC HIGH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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

79%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 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

100% of E3 CIVIC HIGH's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

E3 CIVIC HIGH's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
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

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for E3 CIVIC HIGH: 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 E3 CIVIC HIGH?
E3 CIVIC HIGH (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,108 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does E3 CIVIC HIGH have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,108 in grants to E3 CIVIC HIGH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of E3 CIVIC HIGH?
GIRARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like E3 CIVIC HIGH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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