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FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,156 to it, the largest being ST JUDE HOSPITAL INC ($948,152). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$86k
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$216k
Net assets
4/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · below the median
Months of reserve20.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($75k) Expenses 100 ($152k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2019 Revenue 117 ($88k) Expenses 89 ($135k) Net assets 72 ($121k)2020 Revenue 152 ($115k) Expenses 61 ($94k) Net assets 85 ($144k)2021 Revenue 88 ($66k) Expenses 30 ($46k) Net assets 98 ($165k)2022 Revenue 106 ($80k) Expenses 53 ($81k) Net assets 101 ($170k)2023 Revenue 276 ($208k) Expenses 58 ($88k) Net assets 172 ($289k)2024 Revenue 196 ($148k) Expenses 138 ($211k) Net assets 133 ($224k)2025 Revenue 114 ($86k) Expenses 64 ($97k) Net assets 128 ($216k)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (64)Net assets (128)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

198% of FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,667 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
18
$47k
19
$21k
20
$20k
21
$754
22
$120k
23
$63k
24
$12k
25
21
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $860 → $449k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$948k
funders
2
2
3
4
2
1

3 of 6 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 FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.

91%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 67% · 2023 96%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

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

WA
CA

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

21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
325%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,037,156 to it, the largest being ST JUDE HOSPITAL INC ($948,152). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,037,156 in grants to FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
ST JUDE HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $948,152 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing