California · Nonprofit
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (California) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,432,825 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($11,503,764). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Naleo Educational Fund does
Mission
The naleo education fund is the leading nonprofit organization that facilitates full latino participation in the american political process, from citizenship to public service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic engagement: this program seeks to educate, mobilize, and integrate the latino community in the decision making process in order to strengthen american democracy. We achieve this through our naturalization, civic integration, and voter education and mobilization programs at the local community level.
$3,239,502 spentof which $796,342 as grants$3,221,057 earned by the program37% of program spendingConstituency services: this latino program promotes the governance and policymaking success of latino officials through 8 institures held throughout the country that focus on energy, emergency preparedness, school governance, early learning, higher education and newly elected officials.
$2,248,718 spent$2,844,947 earned by the program26% of program spendingAnnual conference - brings together political, civic, and business leaders to attend presentations and workshops on public policy issues affecting the latino community and is supported through conference registration fees and corporate sponsorships.
$1,857,445 spent$1,947,950 earned by the program21% of program spendingPolicy, research and advocacy - provides a wide array of professional and leadership development programs for latino elected and appointed officials. The naleo policy institute provides key training and technical assistance on a spectrum of high-priority latino issues, and the summits bring together elected officials from across the united states to address topics in education, health and governance.
$1,315,687 spent$501,779 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,661,352.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $8.8M (−32%).
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: 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Arturo Vargas
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $5.5M.
17 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 funders by total. 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
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% 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 NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 33% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
39% of NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: 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 NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND (California) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,432,825 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($11,503,764). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $61,432,825 in grants to NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,503,764 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 89 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