California · Nonprofit
MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,232 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,232). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Made in Santa Rosa Education Foundation does
Mission
The Made in Santa Rosa Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit created to provide equitable opportunities that enrich programs, resources and support for the K-8 Santa Rosa City Schools. Our goal is to build meaningful collaborations and partnerships with our community to help close the opportunity and achievement gaps, and build bridges that will help our students grow and succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Hidden Valley Elementary - Garden Project
$0 spentof which $3,089 as grantsLewis Early Learning Academy - Parent Education
$0 spentof which $1,300 as grantsLuther Burbank Elementary - Books
$0 spentof which $2,800 as grantsAbraham Lincoln Elementary - Mural Project
$0 spentof which $2,800 as grantsHelen Lehman Elementary - Art Docent program
$0 spentof which $3,500 as grantsBrook Hill Elementary - After school clubs
$0 spentof which $3,275 as grantsProctor Terrace Elementary - Garden program
$0 spentof which $1,033 as grantsBiella Elementary - School spirit T-Shirts
$0 spentof which $2,100 as grantsSanta Rosa Middle - Garden program
$0 spentof which $1,200 as grantsSteele Lane Elementary - School spirit T-Shirts
$0 spentof which $3,500 as grantsPiner High School Catering Club
$0 spentof which $250 as grantsBook Vending Machines
$0 spentof which $12,280 as grantsBooks for Elite program
$0 spentof which $1,175 as grantsField Trip bussing
$0 spentof which $5,236 as grants
The 14 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $101k to $129k (+28%).
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.
100% of MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lisa Alexander
Executive Director
Board chair
Jill McCormick
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
50% of MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION 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. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster 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 MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,232 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($26,232). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $52,232 in grants to MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,232 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MADE IN SANTA ROSA EDUCATION 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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