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Elsie Allen High School Foundation

Elsie Allen High School Foundation (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,421 to it, the largest being Ernest L and Ruth W Finley Foundation ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$420k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$581k
Net assets
$2.3M
6/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Elsie Allen High School Foundation does

Mission

Uniting elsie allen highs school (eahs) graduates, parents of current and past students, faculty, and interested community members, the foundation will provide goods, services and funds to support eahs students and graduates, and eahs and its college and career preparatory programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. College scholarships to students advancing to post-secondary education

    $223,175 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. Support to the students eahs foundation club, which supports the schools college and career preparatory programs, IE compact for success, hub for career pathways, college tours, sat test fees, etc.Other grants and program expenses

    $55,177 spent
    19% of program spending
  3. Grant for Certified Nursing Assistant Program

    $5,060 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Grant to eahs teacher to cover program expenses.

    $4,036 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,448.

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 ($455k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($612k)2018 Revenue 57 ($260k) Expenses 281 ($247k) Net assets 99 ($606k)2019 Revenue 34 ($152k) Expenses 209 ($184k) Net assets 94 ($575k)2020 Revenue 100 ($456k) Expenses 168 ($147k) Net assets 144 ($884k)2021 Revenue 84 ($382k) Expenses 204 ($179k) Net assets 177 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 54 ($245k) Expenses 206 ($181k) Net assets 171 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 289 ($1.3M) Expenses 331 ($291k) Net assets 371 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 101 ($457k) Expenses 451 ($396k) Net assets 394 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 92 ($420k) Expenses 488 ($429k) Net assets 384 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (488)Net assets (384)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.5M (+117%).

$612k
$682k
$647k
$959k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.7M
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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

27% of Elsie Allen High School Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$367k
’17
$14k
’18
−$31k
’19
$309k
’20
$203k
’21
$64k
’22
$1.0M
’23
$61k
’24
−$9k
’25
11
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.

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Listed161613121412131312
Joined·+0+3+6+5+2+5+1+1
No longer listed·06734412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $137k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Elsie Allen High School 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

Elsie Allen High School Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% 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 Elsie Allen High School Foundation.

43%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 37% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 73% — 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

30% of Elsie Allen High School Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

96% of Elsie Allen High School Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Elsie Allen High School Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve10.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 30%Fundraising 3%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Elsie Allen High School Foundation?
Elsie Allen High School Foundation (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $581,421 to it, the largest being Ernest L and Ruth W Finley Foundation ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Elsie Allen High School Foundation have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $581,421 in grants to Elsie Allen High School Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Elsie Allen High School Foundation?
Ernest L and Ruth W Finley Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Elsie Allen High School 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 20 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