California · Nonprofit
FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,056 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($750,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Farmworkers Institute Educational Leadership does
Mission
To empower the underserved to become self-sufficient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through field's charter high school for adults called escuela popular instituto campesino ("epic") de cesar chavez, our activities include student services, educational services, and training services. Epic's student services includes outreach, enrollment, assessment, placement, counseling and advisement. Epic's educational services includes remedial literacy and english as a second language/english language development, high school instruction for an accredited diploma, career technical training and on-the-job placement. Our program is culturally and academically designed to include the latino spanish speaking rural communities, african-american, poor non-hispanic, white, as well as foster and homeless populations. Field's epic program allows the students to earn high school diplomas, industry recognized certificates, community college credit and wages through work experience.
$18,401,774 spent$2,902,280 earned by the program98% of program spendingField partners with other community based organizations to educate federal, state and local opinion leaders on policy for rural economic sectors, the workforce and education. Research and education on policy is central to successful asset development and wealth building strategies that promote economic and social prosperity for latinos and other low-income individuals and their families.
$381,493 spent$91,729 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,783,267.
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.
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 $25M to $35M (+41%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 44% · 2024 44% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ines Deluna
President/CEO
Board chair
Dr Jessie Ortiz
Board chair and member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $202k → $150k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP’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
FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 86% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% 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
92% of FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $776k on record.
- Department of the Interior$686k
- Department of Agriculture$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: 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 FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP?
- FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,056 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($750,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,242,056 in grants to FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP?
- FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP 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 9 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