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Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita

Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,743 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($11,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$91k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$138k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita does

Mission

Auxiliary group to small Montessori-like school in Mexico.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. We provide grants to a Not For Profit Civil Association in Mexico called Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, which runs a school for 3-5 year olds that will contribute to their early development and start them on a path to lifelong success. Our organization, Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, raises funds in Illinois, in order to meet the needs of the organization in Mexico. This happens at regular budgetary and cash flow meetings where leadership from the school shares their financial data with leadership of the 501(c)3 and makes plans to address specific needs which are flexible. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has no decision making authority over Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita, and the two Boards operate entirely independently of one another. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has final and ultimate authority over how much to grant and when to grant its funds as raised. The funds of each organization are never co-mingled or co-managed in any way. Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayulita has no employees, and we have used 100% of the funds we have raised to date on our mission. For more information on the school, please see…

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($32k) Net assets 100 ($52k)2022 Revenue 315 ($195k) Expenses 305 ($96k) Net assets 289 ($151k)2023 Revenue 89 ($55k) Expenses 198 ($63k) Net assets 275 ($144k)2024 Revenue 110 ($68k) Expenses 279 ($88k) Net assets 236 ($123k)2025 Revenue 148 ($91k) Expenses 242 ($76k) Net assets 265 ($138k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (148)Expenses (242)Net assets (265)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 2021 to 2022, from $52k to $151k (+189%).

$52k
$151k
$144k
$123k
$138k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’21
$99k
’22
−$7k
’23
−$20k
’24
$15k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $25.

Funder
'18
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita’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 Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 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

100% of Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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 Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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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

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita: 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 Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita?
Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,743 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($11,700). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,743 in grants to Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of Escuela Cooperativa de Sayul- ita find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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