California · Nonprofit
MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,243 to it, the largest being THE HATEDUST PROJECT INC ($50,400). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $211k
What Merced County Education Foundation does
Mission
To benefit the merced county office of education by establishing and supporting programs and activities that maximize academic achievement and education enrichment for students within merced county; providing financial assistance by acquiring equipment and supplies for the use and benefit of the merced county office of education; assisting and supporting merced county office of education in the attainment of its educational, cultural, scientific, artistic, and technological goals and in fulfilling its role in serving students, parents, and the community of which it is a part; strengthening and supporting collaborations and partnerships among the merced county office of education, businesses, foundations and families to service the merced county office of education community; and soliciting grants, donations, charitable contributions and raising funds to support the educational endeavors of the merced county office of education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided scholarships to students attending college and a grants for art education to merced county school district classrooms
$0 spentof which $24,300 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $331k to $150k (−55%).
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.
89% of MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION 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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Stacie Arancibia
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $18k → $13k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MERCED COUNTY 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
MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 86% · 2023 77% — 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
94% of MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION 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. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MERCED COUNTY 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 MERCED COUNTY 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 MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,243 to it, the largest being THE HATEDUST PROJECT INC ($50,400). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $71,243 in grants to MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE HATEDUST PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED COUNTY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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