California · Nonprofit
KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU
KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Knowledge Enlightens You does
Mission
To provide quality education to students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The operation of a charter school that utilizes common core standards to guide the educational program for teachers and parents to work together to ensure the achievement and progress of each student, building the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary for students to become self-motivated, competent and lifelong learners.
$9,257,618 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,257,618.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.3M to $5.1M (+56%).
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 99% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU’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 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
David Ramirez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU’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
100% of KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU is better cushioned than half 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 KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU
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 KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU: 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 KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU?
- KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU?
- CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOWLEDGE ENLIGHTENS YOU 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