California · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS
FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,509,266 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,231,681). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Foundation for Clovis Schools does
Mission
To help students continually improve academic and personal acheivement by providing funding for innovative classroom ideas and educational programs that stimulate and encourage students to aim high.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation in joint efforts with the local community raised funds to support the students of promise scholarship program. The students of promise program recognizes high school juniors who are succeeding in school in spite of extreme obstacles. Some challenges these students face are homelessness, critical illness, loss of parents, foster care, and abuse. Upon graduation from high school, students are eligible to receive $2,000 scholarships for use in post-secondary education.
$32,000 spentof which $32,000 as grants9% of program spendingThe foundation in joint efforts with the local community raised funds to provide grants to local elementary and high schools in the clovis unified school district. Many schools in the clovis unified school district would like to implement special programs as part of their curriculum to better service their students; however, the schools do not have the funding to do so. These programs include career/college centers, reading programs, music labs, etc. The foundation provides grants to local elementary and high schools to fund these programs.
$191,547 spentof which $191,547 as grants52% of program spendingThe doc b leadership academy is a leadership development program that will maintain the long-standing and unique philosophies that have supported the district's success over time. The academy will give the district a permanent venue in which emerging leaders are trained and mentored in the decision-making principles that have shaped the clovis unified school district's student-centered focus and high standards of achievement. As a result, teachers, students and the community flourish.
$80,389 spent22% of program spendingVarious grants and support of clovis unified school district activities, including health and wellness grants and grants for new teachers program.
$63,726 spentof which $63,726 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,662.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $8.0M (+195%).
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.
51% of FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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.
Board chair
Joshua Phanco
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $122k → $5.1M.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS’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
FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 68% · 2021 57% · 2022 34% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
83% of FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M 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.
Against its field
FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS: 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 FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS?
- FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,509,266 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,231,681). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $6,509,266 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,231,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR CLOVIS SCHOOLS 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 14 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