California · Nonprofit
HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS
HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,301 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($194,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $25M
What Hawking Steam Charter Schools does
Mission
Hawking steam charter school prepares students for college and career readiness through an integrated project-based steam curriculum that includes social-emotional awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a public charter school with an integrated project-based steam curriculum. During the 2024-25 school year, the school served approximately 1,321 students in grades tk to 8. Hawking steam charter school's vision is to ensure that our students are engaged in discovery, exploration, and problem-solving through rigorous project based learning activities, aligned to the common core state standards ("ccss") and the next generation science standards ("ngss") that are steam- based. We strive to develop our students' academic, social, and emotional knowledge so they may engage in public discussions, presentations and pursue steam-focused careers.
$22,547,907 spent$16,172 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,547,907.
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 $7.9M to $86M (+998%).
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 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 96% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Lorena Chavez
Executive director
Board chair
Emily Acosta-Thompson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $175k → $20k.
1 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS’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
HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
93% of HAWKING STEAM CHARTER 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. $801 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin 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 HAWKING STEAM CHARTER 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hscs Facilities LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAWKING STEAM CHARTER 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 HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,301 to it, the largest being GIRARD FOUNDATION ($194,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $210,301 in grants to HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAWKING STEAM CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- GIRARD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $194,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAWKING STEAM CHARTER 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 3 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