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EL DORADO FOUNDATION

EL DORADO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being KNIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($270,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$35
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$325k
Net assets
$521k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01The 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 ($16) Expenses 100 ($85) Net assets 100 ($317k)2018 Revenue 362619 ($58k) Expenses 17659 ($15k) Net assets 114 ($360k)2019 Revenue 362625 ($58k) Expenses 21391 ($18k) Net assets 126 ($399k)2020 Revenue 362563 ($58k) Expenses 24336 ($21k) Net assets 138 ($437k)2021 Revenue 475031 ($76k) Expenses 35965 ($31k) Net assets 152 ($482k)2022 Revenue 440663 ($71k) Expenses 41976 ($36k) Net assets 163 ($517k)2023 Revenue 475963 ($76k) Expenses 42224 ($36k) Net assets 176 ($557k)2024 Revenue 219 ($35) Expenses 42353 ($36k) Net assets 165 ($521k)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (42353)Net assets (165)

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 $437k to $482k (+10%).

$317k
$360k
$399k
$437k
$482k
$517k
$557k
$521k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed33336666
Joined·+0+0+2+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·0020000
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $15k.

Funder
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'22
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total
funders
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of EL DORADO FOUNDATION’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 DORADO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 75% · 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

EL DORADO FOUNDATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

ID
IL
CA
CO

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

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’21
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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.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like EL DORADO 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.

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04Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds EL DORADO FOUNDATION?
EL DORADO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being KNIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($270,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EL DORADO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $325,000 in grants to EL DORADO FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EL DORADO FOUNDATION?
KNIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EL DORADO 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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