California · Nonprofit
Friends of Third Street School
Friends of Third Street School (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,605 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($92,430). 8 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
- $716k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $483k
What Friends of Third Street School does
Mission
The organization provides services and benefits to the various constituencies of Third Street School, including parents, students, teachers, vendors and others in the local community, without whose support, the school and the organization would not be successful. Many of the various programs are described in sufficient detail in this exempt organization return.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization pays the cost of teacher aides to assist all teachers, K-5, with administrative duties.
$138,347 spent23% of program spendingThe organization provides the financial support for visual and performing arts at the school, including music, movement, drama and kindergarten visual arts. Friends hired instructors to provide specialized instruction and incurred costs of supplies.
$136,434 spent22% of program spendingThe organization pays for a school safety aide and physical education teacher as well as playground supplies, garden expenses, safety and campus beautification.
$71,954 spent12% of program spendingThe organization pays LAUSD for buses for extra field trips for students during the school year.
$69,244 spent11% of program spendingThe organization pays the cost of one instructor to teach computer applicatons to students K-5 as well as the cost of computer equipment and computer lab expenses.
$52,437 spent9% of program spendingThe organization pays the cost of a science lab instructor as well as science lab equipment and supplies.
$39,800 spent6% of program spendingThe organization reimburses classroom teachers up to $750 per teacher per year for expenses incurred by them for their classrooms and provides a discretionary fund to the principal through donations to LAUSD earmarked for the special needs of the school. In addition the organization pays LAUSD to partially cover the salary of a vice principal.
$34,779 spent6% of program spendingKorean Dual Language Program: Friends of Third assists with collection of funds and payment for expenses for the school's dual-language educational program. This includes cultural events, technology in the classroom, educational supplies and extended-day enrichment programs.
$29,025 spent5% of program spendingThe organization provides other services and supplies not listed elsewhere including copier maintenance,classroom size reduction and targeted extended learning.
$25,680 spent4% of program spending5th Grade Expenses: Friends of Third assists 5th Grade teachers with collection of funds and payment of expenses for activities for 5th Grade students. This includes special educational field trips, an overnight experiential learning camp and end-of-year culmination activities.
$8,431 spent1% of program spendingThe organization supports the library at the school by providing and paying for a part-time library aide who supervises the after school research and homework centers.
$7,120 spent1% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $613,251.
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 $261k to $376k (+44%).
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.
9% of Friends of Third Street School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
Liza Keckler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $30k.
5 of 10 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 Friends of Third Street School’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 Third Street School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 Friends of Third Street School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 100% · 2019 45% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 40% · 2023 81% — 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
75% of Friends of Third Street School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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 Friends of Third Street School'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Friends of Third Street School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Third Street School
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
98% 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 Friends of Third Street School: 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 Third Street School?
- Friends of Third Street School (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,605 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($92,430). 8 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 Friends of Third Street School have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $158,605 in grants to Friends of Third Street School, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Third Street School?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $92,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Third Street School 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing