California · Nonprofit
Learning Home Volunteers
Learning Home Volunteers (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,983 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($201,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $534k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $797k
- Net assets
- $863k
What Learning Home Volunteers does
Mission
Learning Home Volunteers mission is to improve educational outcomes of low-income children by transforming their homes into centers of learning and their parents into agents of change for their educational growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In our program the childs first teachers their parents continue in their roles of the educator but instead of the learning being adult led it is child led. This is a significant change in the relationship that parents have with their child but an essential one. To help our parents make this change our family coordinator is key. Not only are they responsible for bringing learning materials to the home every three weeks but maintaining a relationship with the parents. During their visits with the parents they get to hear about each childs exploration and mastery. They answer questions that may have come up during the learning session. Finally they are responsible for all supportive materials development which include the video sessions regarding activity learning ideas surveys and intake activities are done by the family coordinator as well. This close relationship is reason for our high level of parent engagement which currently is 100%! Their intimate relationship allows us to be able to help with other barriers which our families face which affects their childs ability to learn - hunger housing insecurity language barriers and a multitude of other issues. Our program coordinators…
$96,936 spent67% of program spendingOur secret sauce is our learning sessions. Sessions focus on a single topic i.e. like flowers and will contain 7 to 13 individual learning activities for the parent and the child to explore together. We design each learning activity to meet the needs of a 2 year old just as elegantly as a 5 year old and the match the learning styles of both a careful cautious child as well as a busy active learner. Every activity offers opportunities for language support for mastering pre-k academic skills and for building learning agility skills. Oh and the activities MUST be fun! We test the learning activities incorporating materials that can be found in the home and keeping costs low. Once the lesson is fully designed we turn it over to our volunteers who manufacture package and document the activities. All lessons are accompanied by 3-4 books read aloud by our storyteller. Finally we create videos in both English and Spanish to introduce the learning activity materials its purpose and ideas for using the learning materials. The learning kits are prepared for each learner. Each gets the sessions materials and custom learning activities based on their interests. In addition we add donated books…
$24,968 spent17% of program spendingTrain and support parents to foster learning in a child-directed play program: Each parent is trained on the adults role in child-directed play. Training includes both online training 1.5 hours and in-person training 3 hrs. Ongoing training is provided through Classtag and in person visits by our family coordinators. Our families lack basic resources in the home for working with their children and 90% of our families have no children books in the home. As part of the training we set our parents up for success by providing a parent teachers kit which includes our core books; math manipulatives; exemplars for primary and secondary colors print numbers to 20 the alphabet; plus construction paper markers scissors glue unifix cube and stringing materials. Assessment are done to determine how the child is advancing towards kindergarten readiness.
$23,232 spent16% of program spendingCommunity building is essential for future educational outcomes. We hold family learning events to help build community.
$344 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,480.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $543k to $863k (+59%).
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.
98% of Learning Home Volunteers’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Victoria Shoemaker
Executive Director
Board chair
Andy Fukuba
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $10k → $171k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Learning Home Volunteers’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 funders by total. 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
Learning Home Volunteers has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 Learning Home Volunteers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 42% · 2022 68% · 2023 61% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of Learning Home Volunteers's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
55% of Learning Home Volunteers'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 $355k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $442k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Learning Home Volunteers runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Learning Home Volunteers
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Learning Home Volunteers?
- Learning Home Volunteers (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,983 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($201,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Learning Home Volunteers have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $796,983 in grants to Learning Home Volunteers, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Learning Home Volunteers?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $201,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Learning Home Volunteers 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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