California · Nonprofit
Green Dot Public Schools
Green Dot Public Schools (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,876,444 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($4,899,550). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $103M
What Green Dot Public Schools does
Mission
Green Dot Public Schools' mission is to help transform public education so that every child can be successful in college, leadership and life. Green Dot Public Schools manages the development of and supports the operation of high quality public charter schools. Our network of Title I secondary schools seek to put every student on the path to college, regardless of background.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Green Dot Public Schools is a network of Title I secondary schools seeking to put every student on the path to college, regardless of background. Our academic model is focused on retention, rigor, and results. We serve the "whole" student with social-emotional development in addition to academic progress. We offer a range of comprehensive programs, small schools, and safe college-prep learning environments at our public charter middle and high schools from Venice, across South Los Angeles, to Boyle Heights serving approximately 9,500 students.
$209,909,998 spent$6,256,537 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,909,998.
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 2019 to 2020, from $134M to $284M (+112%).
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 96% · 2018 86% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Green Dot Public Schools’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Cristina de Jesus
President & CEO
Board chair
Kevin S Reed
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 22 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $2.4M.
13 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Green Dot Public Schools’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
Green Dot Public Schools has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 Green Dot Public Schools.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 31% · 2019 36% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 31% — 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
33% of Green Dot Public Schools's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
70% of Green Dot Public Schools's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Green Dot Public Schools holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like Green Dot Public Schools
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Delta Properties Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Green Dot Public Schools: 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 Green Dot Public Schools?
- Green Dot Public Schools (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,876,444 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($4,899,550). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Green Dot Public Schools have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $15,876,444 in grants to Green Dot Public Schools, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Green Dot Public Schools?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,899,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Green Dot Public Schools 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 63 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