California · Nonprofit
Knowledge Life Service Foundation
Knowledge Life Service Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87,955 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($87,955). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Knowledge Life Service Foundation's revenue fell 83% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alameda County Community Food Banklocal
- Casa Family Foundationportfolio match
- Sahni Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
14% of Knowledge Life Service Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $8k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Knowledge Life Service Foundation’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 Life Service Foundation'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Alameda County Community Food BanklocalCA · funds 336 organizations near you
- Casa Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sahni Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wendt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woolley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Grimm Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Baileyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chu Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wayne G Basler Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Boule Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wheelwright Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Knowledge Life Service Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
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 Knowledge Life Service Foundation: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Knowledge Life Service Foundation?
- Knowledge Life Service Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $87,955 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($87,955). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Knowledge Life Service Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $87,955 in grants to Knowledge Life Service Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Knowledge Life Service Foundation?
- PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $87,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Knowledge Life Service Foundation 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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing