California · Nonprofit
LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE
LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,719 to it, the largest being OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION ($38,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Living Education Collective does
Mission
To unite families and build relationships through weekly academic and enrichment classes to students in k-12th grades during the school year, and to continue to promote learning through field trips, hikes and other gatherings throughout the week.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Living Education Collective provides a weekly program where k-12 students participate in classes with paid instructors, building relationships with one another and expanding their academic knowledge in areas such as the art, science, history and literature. This aspect of our program has accomplished our goal of uniting families and building relationships through weekly academic classes.additionally, our program has united over 50 families in our local area. We continue to build a community environment of support and encouragement that strengthens local families. This accomplishment includes activities such as parent book clubs, parent support groups and parent educational retreats.finally, we have accomplished our goal of promoting further learning through provided field trips, hikes and other gatherings throughout the week. Our program provides a field trip opportunity every month during the academic year. Locations have included the reagan library, griffith observatory, santa barbara natural history museum, riley's farm and many more. Field trip attendance typically ranges from 30-90 students. Hikes, nature outings and natural science exploration have been offered through our…
$72,116 spentof which $7,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,116.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $29k to $56k (+92%).
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.
24% of LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sally Andrew
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE’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
LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
100% of LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE: 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 LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE?
- LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,719 to it, the largest being OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION ($38,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,719 in grants to LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE?
- OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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