California · Nonprofit
Heartwood Educational Collaborative
Heartwood Educational Collaborative (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,963 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($143,059). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $335k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Heartwood Educational Collaborative does
Mission
The Organization provides educational support for homeschool students. With attention and care, we aim to provide a stimulating and enriching education, awakening critical and creative thinking, instilling a love of work and learning that propels our students to make positive, heart-felt and inspiring contributions to our shared world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Heartwood Educational Collaborative is a non-profit, educational collaborative providing educational support for K-12 students and their families enrolled in publicly funded, independent study and home school programs in California. We provide financial support and volunteer organizing assistance oriented toward Waldorf inspired teaching methods in an organized community environment to support students who may not be served by traditional, education methods in traditional, public school classrooms.Waldorf teaching methods have been evolving and adapting for over 100 years and have proven to successfully guide generations of students to become self-learners and responsible global citizens.In 2019 the program applied for a separate charter authorization with Liberty School District and that charter was approved. Heartwood Charter School was created as an independent public charter school in Sonoma and Marin counties. In 2020 Heartwood Educational Collaborative worked closely with the new charter school to provide support for families and students as well as the charter school itself through grants for teachers and classes not funded under the new charter school, offsetting rental…
$84,132 spentof which $60,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,132.
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 2018 to 2019, from $103k to $47k (−54%).
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.
91% of Heartwood Educational Collaborative’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $96k → $38k.
7 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Heartwood Educational Collaborative’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
Heartwood Educational Collaborative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Heartwood Educational Collaborative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 43% · 2020 78% · 2021 59% · 2022 58% · 2023 84% — 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 Heartwood Educational Collaborative's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
84% of Heartwood Educational Collaborative'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k 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
Heartwood Educational Collaborative's revenue fell 85% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Heartwood Educational Collaborative
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.
Public support
84%
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 Heartwood Educational Collaborative: 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 Heartwood Educational Collaborative?
- Heartwood Educational Collaborative (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,963 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($143,059). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Heartwood Educational Collaborative have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $334,963 in grants to Heartwood Educational Collaborative, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heartwood Educational Collaborative?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $143,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heartwood Educational Collaborative 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing