California · Nonprofit
John Baldwin Cougar Fund
John Baldwin Cougar Fund (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,770 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($80,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $229k
What John Baldwin Cougar Fund does
Mission
The John Baldwin Cougar Education Fund (CEF), an affiliate of the San Ramon Valley Education Foundation (SRVEF), is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to maintain and enhance the academic excellence at John Baldwin Elementary School. The group operates through the collaboration of parents, educators and the community at large.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1999, CEF is comprised of parent volunteers, our school principal and one teacher liaison. CEF is dedicated to generating money through tax-deductible contributions to pay for programs, technology needs, and the salaries of faculty and staff our parent community and school administration believe are important to the education of our children, but are not paid for or only partially paid for by our school district.The Cougar Education Funds budgeting process involves gathering valuable insight and feedback from parents, our schools Site Council, Teachers, and Administration regarding positions and programs that most benefit our children's educational experience at Baldwin through surveys, and attendance to monthly CEF meetings throughout the year.
$326,984 spentof which $316,834 as grants100% of program spendingThe positions and programs funded by CEF include or have included:Art Teacher and Program (TK-5)Music Teacher and Program (TK-5)P.E. Instructional Aide (1-5)Librarian and Library Classes (TK-5)Reading Specialist (TK-5)Math Instructional Aides (TK-5)Literacy Instructional Aides (TK-5)Classroom Paraprofessional (TK-1)Noon Duty Supervisor (TK-5)
Campus Supervisor (TK-5)Education Software & Licensing Fees (ex: Keyboarding without Tears and RazKids)
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $326,984.
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 2023 to 2024, from $272k to $181k (−33%).
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.
83% of John Baldwin Cougar Fund’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Christina Hendry
Auction Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $17k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 John Baldwin Cougar Fund’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
John Baldwin Cougar Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 John Baldwin Cougar Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 88% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — 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
99% of John Baldwin Cougar Fund'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
John Baldwin Cougar Fund runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like John Baldwin Cougar Fund
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 John Baldwin Cougar Fund: 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 John Baldwin Cougar Fund?
- John Baldwin Cougar Fund (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,770 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($80,420). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does John Baldwin Cougar Fund have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $95,770 in grants to John Baldwin Cougar Fund, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of John Baldwin Cougar Fund?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,420 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like John Baldwin Cougar Fund 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing