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LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,624 to it, the largest being RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ($327,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$568k
Net assets
$1.1M
10/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What La Costa Canyon High School Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide support for La Costa Canyon High School's educational @ extracirricular activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Raising funds through contributions, donations and special events to provide for athletic, artistic and educational programs not otherwise provided for by the school district, which provides opportunities for student growth & development.

    $950,300 spentof which $221,274 as grants$204,215 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Net proceeds from sale of school spirit wear and interest income.

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $950,300.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($850k)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.4M) Expenses 110 ($1.5M) Net assets 97 ($822k)2019 Revenue 86 ($1.1M) Expenses 89 ($1.2M) Net assets 92 ($781k)2020 Revenue 79 ($1.0M) Expenses 90 ($1.2M) Net assets 76 ($648k)2021 Revenue 47 ($618k) Expenses 35 ($461k) Net assets 95 ($805k)2022 Revenue 75 ($997k) Expenses 61 ($804k) Net assets 117 ($998k)2023 Revenue 89 ($1.2M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 107 ($908k)2024 Revenue 106 ($1.4M) Expenses 91 ($1.2M) Net assets 130 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 112 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.3M) Net assets 130 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (97)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

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 $908k to $1.1M (+22%).

$851k
$823k
$781k
$648k
$834k
$998k
$908k
$1.1M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 636 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$28k
’18
−$40k
’19
−$133k
’20
$157k
’21
$192k
’22
−$90k
’23
$197k
’24
$196k
’25
10
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed15151011109121414
Joined·+5+5+4+2+1+7+12+1
No longer listed·5103324101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $60k → $20k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC’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

LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.

58%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 79% · 2021 88% · 2022 68% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

33% of LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

86% of LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC'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 $82k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from California funders.

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $485k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $567,624 to it, the largest being RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ($327,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $567,624 in grants to LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC?
RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $327,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC 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 22 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