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EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE

EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,194 to it, the largest being FANANGEL FOUNDATION INC ($29,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$49M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$50M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What El Camino Real Alliance does

Mission

The mission of ecr is to prepare our diverse student body for the next phase of their educational, professional, and personal journey through a rigorous, customized academic program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. El camino real charter high school operates to provide education to approximately 3,045 students in grades 9 to 12. Ecr hopes to inspire the development of students' unique talents and skills, builds character, and provides opportunities for civic engagement and real-world experiences through its rigorous, customized academic program.

    $42,586,112 spent$2,031,163 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,586,112.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($37M) Expenses 100 ($34M) Net assets -38 ($-2909853)2019 Revenue 109 ($41M) Expenses 117 ($40M) Net assets 100 ($7.7M)2020 Revenue 119 ($45M) Expenses 135 ($46M) Net assets 78 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 144 ($54M) Expenses 116 ($40M) Net assets 257 ($20M)2022 Revenue 135 ($51M) Expenses 130 ($45M) Net assets 342 ($26M)2023 Revenue 165 ($62M) Expenses 143 ($49M) Net assets 508 ($39M)2024 Revenue 148 ($55M) Expenses 144 ($49M) Net assets 612 ($47M)2025 Revenue 131 ($49M) Expenses 144 ($49M) Net assets 649 ($50M)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (144)Net assets (649)

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 $25M to $34M (+37%).

$24M
$24M
$25M
$34M
$38M
$47M
$54M
$61M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 94% · 2021 90% · 2022 88% · 2023 87% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.1M
’17
$794k
’19
−$1.7M
’20
$14M
’21
$6.0M
’22
$13M
’23
$6.0M
’24
−$485k
’25
9.2
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

David Hussey

Executive director

Board chair

Brad Wright

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed6315171817212020
Joined··+4+4+8+5+5+5
No longer listed··239165
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $52.

From the IRS filings of EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE’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

EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 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 EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
GA

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

’19
’22
California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE: 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 EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE?
EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,194 to it, the largest being FANANGEL FOUNDATION INC ($29,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,194 in grants to EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE?
FANANGEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EL CAMINO REAL ALLIANCE 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 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