California · Nonprofit
Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation
Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,100 to it, the largest being Laborers International Union of Local Union 270 ($161,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $499k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $630k
What Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation does
Mission
Provide educational scholarships to children of affiliated union members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide scholarships to children of northern california laborers.
$674,926 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $674,926.
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 $325k to $808k (+148%).
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.
99% of Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 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.
Board chair
Oscar De La Torre
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $18k → $65k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $178k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern California District Council of Laborers). These are real filings, and they are not money Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 53% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Northern California Laborers Scholarship 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.
Against its field
Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Northern California Laborers Scholarship 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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- No Cal District Council of Laborers · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northern California Laborers Scholarship 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 Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation?
- Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,100 to it, the largest being Laborers International Union of Local Union 270 ($161,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $440,100 in grants to Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern California Laborers Scholarship Foundation?
- Laborers International Union of Local Union 270 is the largest funder on record, with $161,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern California Laborers Scholarship 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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