California · Nonprofit
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,111,927 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,154,133). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What East Palo Alto Academy Foundation does
Mission
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation advocates for, advances, and raises funds to benefit the students and graduates of east palo alto academy, a charter school of the sequoia union high school district. Our programs and resources are in pursuit of our mission to support the students and graduates of east palo alto academy through high school and postsecondary pathways into meaningful careers by providingacademic, navigational, social-emotional, and financial resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Effective august 1, 2014, East Palo Alto Academy Foundation (prior to july 1, 2017, known as stanford schools corporation) serves as a non-profit organization, supporting a public charter school, east palo alto academy, in two ways. First, East Palo Alto Academy Foundation (epaaf) funds direct services for the high school including: early college courses, where students earn college credit during their regular school day; the dream lab, a makerspace where students engage in hands-on stem learning and develop creative problem-solving and communication skills; extra curriculars including athletics; and wraparound services that support students' mental health and readiness to learn. Second, epaaf offers scholarship funds to a select number of college and vocational students, all of whom graduated from east palo alto academy.east palo alto academy provides a high quality education for approximately 275 students. The student population is approximately 90% latino/a/x, 3% african american, 4% pacific islanders, and 3% other. 74% of students will be the first in their families to graduate high school, and 86% will be first-generation college students. Approximately 35% of the students…
$1,381,084 spentof which $1,156,148 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,381,084.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $3.5M (+10%).
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.
97% of EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathyrn Hyle
Executive director
Board chair
Laura A Murawczyk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $664k → $1.4M.
16 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. 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
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
77% 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 EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 39% · 2019 30% · 2020 53% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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
75% of EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,111,927 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,154,133). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $11,111,927 in grants to EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,154,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY 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 55 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