California · Nonprofit
MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER
MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,866). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $-9971
What Mistwood Educational Center does
Mission
To provide a rich, stimulating, highly academic and fine arts environment in which students and adults have great respect for each other, for themselves, and for their immediate global environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mistwood, a home-schooling/grammar school combination founded in 1980, has a unique structure and curriculum. The school consistently has an enrollment of about forty students, kindergarten through eighth grades. Our goal is to provide a safe (non bullying), academic, respectful environment for all of our students and families. Our students are allowed to develop at their own pace and can learn in a cheerful, enthusiastic setting, where their individual strengths and weaknesses and needs are acknowledged, valued and supported by adults, their peers, and other students.
$143,610 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $143,610.
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 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $54k (+183%).
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.
10% of MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $750 → $350.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER’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
MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
52% 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 MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 74% · 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
52% of MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER'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 $2k 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. $2k 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
MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER's revenue fell 19% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER
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 MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER: 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 MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER?
- MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,866). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,616 in grants to MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISTWOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER 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 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