California · Nonprofit
GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS
GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,710 to it, the largest being Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation ($1,001,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Global School Leaders does
Mission
To advance the education of children by training and preparing school leaders, teachers, and other educators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Global School Leaders (gsl) is redefining what powerful school leadership can do for education systems in the global south through the following programs:Global School Leaders is redefining what powerful school leadership can do for education systems in the global south through partnerships, research, regional collaboration, and leadership development programs across latin america, africa, and asia. In 2025, gsl advanced a global agenda focused on strengthening school leadership at a systemic lever for improving learning outcomes. Gsl expanded partnerships with governments, local organizations, and regional networks to support contextualized school leadership programs focused on foundational literacy and numeracy, early childhood education, and gender-equitable leadership. In ghana, gsl continued implementation of leadership for learning, a program designed to strengthen instructional leadership practices and improve teaching and learning outcomes. In sierra leone, gsl continued supporting programs focused on foundational literacy and numeracy; while in guatemala, gsl advanced systems-level work through partnerships, a national diagnostic process, and a nationally representative…
$1,896,008 spentof which $70,919 as grants$317,358 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,896,008.
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 2021 to 2022, from $632k to $2.5M (+295%).
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: 2024 14% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Chief executive
Camila Pereira
CEO
Board chair
Sameer Sampat
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.0M.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS’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
GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 52% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $780k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS: 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 GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS?
- GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,933,710 to it, the largest being Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation ($1,001,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,933,710 in grants to GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS?
- Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,001,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS 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 9 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