California · Nonprofit
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,901 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($588,770). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $668k
- Net assets
- $13M
What German International School of Silicon Valley does
Mission
The school has committed itself to ensuring students reach their full academic potential in a nuturing environment that fosters critical and imaginative thinking, a passion for lifelong learning, and an appreciation for cultural diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school is a private, non-profit, coeducational school founded in 1999 in mountain view, california, offiering a multilingual, multicultural education to students from pre-school through 12th grade.meeting the strict accreditation requirements of the western association of schools and colleges (wasc) as well as the german government, the school is the only institution in the western part of the united states to offer dual diplomas upon graduation, the german international arbitur (diap), as well as the california high school diploma - qualifying graduates for acceptance into the best american and european universities.with two locations throughout the san francisco bay area (mountain view and san francisco), the school currently serves the needs of approximately 564 students.
$18,217,813 spentof which $1,279,917 as grants$19,309,081 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,217,813.
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 2017 to 2018, from $14M to $17M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 13% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $94k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY’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
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 90% · 2023 83% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 89% 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. $650k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY: 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 GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY?
- GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,901 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($588,770). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $667,901 in grants to GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $588,770 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SILICON VALLEY 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 11 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