California · Nonprofit
GREATSCHOOLS INC
GREATSCHOOLS INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,349,930 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($7,349,646). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Greatschools Inc does
Mission
Greatschools is the leading nonprofit providing high-quality information that supports parents pursuing a great education for their child, schools striving for excellence, and communities working to diminish inequities in education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Opex: with an objective to provide high-quality information that supports parents pursuing a great education for their child, schools striving for excellence, and communities working to diminish inequities in education, greatschools.org is the nation's leading platform for school information and educational resources. In 2024, over 39 million users visited greatschools.org, equating to nearly half of all u.s. Parents with school-age children. This same year, we also delivered weekly emails, containing parenting tips and guidance, to over 800,000 newsletter subscribers.
$3,166,964 spent$1,064,778 earned by the program54% of program spendingResearch & development: each year, greatschools collects and analyzes data from all 50 state departments of education, the district of columbia, and the federal government to deliver the most comprehensive information on 150,000+ public, charter, and private schools nationwide. Through ongoing user research, we continually evolve our platform to: highlight learning opportunities in and out of the classroom, amplify parent perspectives and experiences, and help educators better understand and respond to their communities.
$1,545,284 spent$476,474 earned by the program26% of program spendingSales: greatschools is the nation's most trusted source of high-quality k-12 school and district data. Through licensing, our data powers leading education and real estate sites across the country, helping parents and homebuyers find and evaluate schools with confidence, while our advertising opportunities connect schools & businesses with millions of families actively searching for schools and educational resources.
$670,487 spent$220,591 earned by the program11% of program spendingMarketing: activities to grow our audience and expand our reach through public relations, branding, and user acquisition.
$466,831 spent$156,331 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,849,566.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.8M to $5.6M (−29%).
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.
41% of GREATSCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Deane
CEO
Board chair
John Palmer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.3M.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Greatschools Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATSCHOOLS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATSCHOOLS INC’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
GREATSCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 44% · 2020 45% · 2021 45% · 2022 65% · 2023 35% — 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
36% of GREATSCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
GREATSCHOOLS INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GREATSCHOOLS INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GREATSCHOOLS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATSCHOOLS INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
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 GREATSCHOOLS INC: 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 GREATSCHOOLS INC?
- GREATSCHOOLS INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,349,930 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($7,349,646). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATSCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $23,349,930 in grants to GREATSCHOOLS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATSCHOOLS INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,349,646 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATSCHOOLS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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