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Friends of Albert Einstein Academies

Friends of Albert Einstein Academies (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,563 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,783). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$97k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$103k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Friends of Albert Einstein Academies does

Mission

Our mission is to fund educational enrichment and school-spirit-building programs at Albert Einstein Academies Charter Schools in San Diego, CA

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Our organization provided funding for art, physical education, science, library servies, an extensive new middle school music program, and special teacher programs also aiding in financing an art teacher, science teacher, music teacher, and physical education and library assistants -

    $89,884 spent
    53% of program spending
  2. Our organization provided funding for school spirit and community building activities such as assemblies, field trips, classroom supplemental supplies, back-to-school bbg, outdoor Field Day activities, and Running Club

    $41,917 spent
    25% of program spending
  3. Our organization held montly and annual organizational meetings an incurred costs for related office supplies, marketing expenses, and board liability insurance

    $38,779 spent
    23% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $170,580.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($77k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($270k)2021 Revenue 76 ($59k) Expenses 98 ($138k) Net assets 71 ($190k)2022 Revenue 214 ($165k) Expenses 95 ($133k) Net assets 83 ($223k)2023 Revenue 62 ($48k) Expenses 115 ($161k) Net assets 40 ($109k)2024 Revenue 126 ($97k) Expenses 73 ($103k) Net assets 38 ($103k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (126)Expenses (73)Net assets (38)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 $223k to $109k (−51%).

$270k
$190k
$223k
$109k
$103k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Friends of Albert Einstein Academies’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$63k
’20
−$79k
’21
$32k
’22
−$114k
’23
−$6k
’24
20
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $750 → $1k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Friends of Albert Einstein Academies’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

Friends of Albert Einstein Academies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

72% 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 Friends of Albert Einstein Academies.

56%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 49% · 2023 60% — 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.

Where its funders are

72% of Friends of Albert Einstein Academies'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from California funders.

WI
CA
VA

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

’18
’19
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Friends of Albert Einstein Academies has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like Friends of Albert Einstein Academies

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05Profile & governance

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

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of Albert Einstein Academies?
Friends of Albert Einstein Academies (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,563 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($14,783). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of Albert Einstein Academies have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $26,563 in grants to Friends of Albert Einstein Academies, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Albert Einstein Academies?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Albert Einstein Academies 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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