California · Nonprofit
Malibu Education Foundation
Malibu Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,741 to it, the largest being THE SHARK FUND ($5,541). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Malibu Education Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Spencer L Murfey Family Fdn Mag 10shared funders
- Malibu Foundationportfolio match
- Peter & Masha Plotkin Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 100% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Malibu Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Malibu 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
Malibu Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 Malibu Education Foundation.
“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 Malibu Education Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
- Spencer L Murfey Family Fdn Mag 10shared fundersFL · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Malibu Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter & Masha Plotkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pipkin Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saunders Family Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oneblood Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Posner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vasicek Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Willard Miller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lafc Sports Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kelly Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Malibu Education 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.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Malibu 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.
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 Malibu Education Foundation?
- Malibu Education Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,741 to it, the largest being THE SHARK FUND ($5,541). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Malibu Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,741 in grants to Malibu Education Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Malibu Education Foundation?
- THE SHARK FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Malibu 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.
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 2funders 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