California · Nonprofit
ISANA
ISANA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being BUILDING HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION ($700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $700
- Net assets
- $41M
What Isana does
Mission
To work together to provide each ISANA scholar with a diverse, equitable, supportive, rigorous, and engaging learning experience so that every individual will thrive at ISANA and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To operate public charter schools where at risk students will thrive in an atmosphere of high expectations.Our vision encompasses five critical focus areas:Academic Excellence - Our academic program will challenge the intellect and maximize the potential of each student to acquire knowledge, concepts, and skills necessary to become thinking, productive, responsible citizens. Excellence in academics results in a love of lifelong learning and supportive, involved community.Mutual Respect - ISANA will foster a culture of mutual respect that builds trust and engages students in learning.High-Quality Teachers and Paraprofessionals - Teachers and paraprofessionals will meet ESSA standards by meeting all applicable state certification and licensure requirements.Parental Investment and Community Involvement - Parents want the best for their children and share in the responsibility and the process of educating their children. These involved parents will serve as catalysts to students' success.Respect and Diversity - ISANA will be an inclusive community in which people from different cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds learn, live, and work harmoniously with mutual respect,…
$38,345,431 spent$71,495 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,345,431.
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 $62M to $86M (+39%).
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 89% · 2019 99% · 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 97% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ISANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Nadia Shaiq
Chief Executive Officer/President
Board chair
Vijay Patel
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ISANA’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.
Where its funders are
ISANA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ISANA holds deeper cash reserves 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 ISANA
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
70% 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 ISANA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ISANA?
- ISANA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being BUILDING HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION ($700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ISANA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $700 in grants to ISANA.
- Who is the largest funder of ISANA?
- BUILDING HEALTHY LIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ISANA 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 1 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