California · Nonprofit
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,324,483 to it, the largest being THE LEGACY FUND ($2,908,313). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Orange County School of the Arts does
Mission
We provide an unparalleled arts and acdademic education in a creative, challenging and nurturing environment to a diverse student body passionate about the arts, preparing them to reach their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Orange County School of the Arts (ocsa) is a california nonprofit public benefit corporation under the laws of the state of california. The organization consists of a charter school and the legacy fund, a related party of the school formed to purchase and manage properties to be rented to the school. Ocsa consists of approximately 2,319 students in grades 7-12.
$37,941,487 spent$2,293,394 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,941,487.
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 2017 to 2018, from $45M to $21M (−54%).
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: 2017 70% · 2018 53% · 2019 70% · 2020 72% · 2021 62% · 2022 69% · 2023 70% · 2024 70% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Teren Shaffer
President and CEO
Board chair
Paul Satkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $292k → $2.0M.
19 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $6.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orange County School of the Arts Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 34% · 2021 59% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — 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
33% of ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
94% of ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Ocsa Foundation · exempt
- The Legacy Fund · exempt
- California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley · exempt
- California School of the Arts Foundation · exempt
- Smg Arts Management LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: 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 ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,324,483 to it, the largest being THE LEGACY FUND ($2,908,313). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $8,324,483 in grants to ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- THE LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,908,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS 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 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing