California · Nonprofit
HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL
HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,113 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $913k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $258k
What Hume Lake Charter School does
Mission
To create an exemplary academic environment that encourages and expects all students to learn and grow in every aspect of their person and to succeed in life in their chosen vocations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hume Lake Charter School, located in the sequoia national forest, is a wasc accredited public school serving the community of historic hume lake and its neighbors, including wilsonia and grant grove. Comprised of classes from kindergarten through 12th grade, the school offers a curriculum that meets current standards including full uc/csu a-g requirements while providing the best of educational opportunities beyond the traditional classroom. Consistently earning high marks in standardized educational assessment and measurement, while providing academic and extra-curricular experiences in a four-season, outdoor recreational environment, Hume Lake Charter School exemplifies excellence as a school of choice.
$886,943 spent$11,808 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $886,943.
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 2024 to 2025, from $727k to $463k (−36%).
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 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 98% · 2024 88% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $195 → $1k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL’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
HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
73% 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 HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 94% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL'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 $10k 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. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $122k on record.
- Department of Education$122k
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 HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,113 to it, the largest being THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,113 in grants to HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUME LAKE CHARTER SCHOOL 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