California · Nonprofit
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,510,904 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,068,057). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Pacific Ridge School does
Mission
In a community that fosters academic excellence, ethical responsibility and global engagement, Pacific Ridge School prepares students for college and a purposeful life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In the 2023-2024 academic year, Pacific Ridge School increased enrollment to 688 students in grades 6-12 from 685 students in the 2022-2023 academic year. School leadership recognizes the value to students of combining first-rate classroom academics with service learning and global travel opportunities, the arts, sciences, and athletic participation.students at pacific ridge benefit from engaging around a harkness table with their peers and teacher in classes averaging 15 students. Faculty bring a wealth of experience, passion, and global perspective to the classroom every day. Over 75% of our faculty hold advanced degrees and an average 7:1 student-to-teacher ratio supports comprehension and advancement. Participation in one of the school's 34 service-learning groups enriches each student's academic experience, teaches civic and ethical responsibility, and strengthens communities for the common good. Built into the curriculum, service learning is required for students in grades 6-10. Nearly 90% of upperclassmen continue with the program. By exploring different cultures, embracing the unfamiliar, and attempting to help those outside of our community, our students become global…
$29,609,800 spentof which $5,083,809 as grants$31,208,819 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,609,800.
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 2021 to 2022, from $74M to $81M (+10%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 1% · 2022 8% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Brent Rivard
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $347k → $860k.
18 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
82% 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 54% · 2023 23% — 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
81% of PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL: 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 PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL?
- PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,510,904 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,068,057). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $8,510,904 in grants to PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,068,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL 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 49 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