California · Nonprofit
Madera County Schools Foundation
Madera County Schools Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Madera County Schools Foundation has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
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.
- Waterford Foundationshared funders
- Bonner Family Foundationportfolio match
- Arts Council for Monterey Countyportfolio 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.
96% of Madera County Schools Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Madera County Schools 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
Madera County Schools Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 Madera County Schools Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Madera County Schools Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Waterford Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Bonner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council for Monterey Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark and Jessie Milano Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacienda Child Development Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wurster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Valley Children's Hospitalshared funderslocalCA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you
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 Madera County Schools 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.
Public support
99%
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 Madera County Schools 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 Madera County Schools Foundation?
- Madera County Schools Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Madera County Schools Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $18,000 in grants to Madera County Schools Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Madera County Schools Foundation?
- EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Madera County Schools 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 3funders 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