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PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC

PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,490,753 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($272,850). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$10M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$44M
17/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Pluralistic School Inc does

Mission

Ps1's mission is to spark curious and critical thinkers who confidently contribute to their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. During the 2024-25 academic year, the school provided elementary school education to students in grades kindergarten through sixth.

    $8,229,075 spentof which $1,883,950 as grants$8,632,596 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,229,075.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.3M) Net assets 100 ($30M)2018 Revenue 104 ($8.8M) Expenses 106 ($7.7M) Net assets 107 ($32M)2019 Revenue 114 ($9.6M) Expenses 116 ($8.4M) Net assets 113 ($34M)2020 Revenue 115 ($9.7M) Expenses 122 ($8.9M) Net assets 117 ($35M)2021 Revenue 123 ($10M) Expenses 121 ($8.9M) Net assets 141 ($42M)2022 Revenue 133 ($11M) Expenses 127 ($9.2M) Net assets 127 ($38M)2023 Revenue 118 ($10.0M) Expenses 144 ($11M) Net assets 131 ($39M)2024 Revenue 122 ($10M) Expenses 147 ($11M) Net assets 138 ($41M)2025 Revenue 120 ($10M) Expenses 150 ($11M) Net assets 146 ($44M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (150)Net assets (146)

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 $39M to $46M (+16%).

$33M
$35M
$37M
$39M
$46M
$42M
$42M
$44M
$47M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$1.1M
’18
$1.2M
’19
$791k
’20
$1.6M
’21
$2.0M
’22
−$577k
’23
−$425k
’24
−$846k
’25
0.2
months of
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

Jenefer Brown

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed222121252522232628
Joined·+4+4+13+4+2+5+6+10
No longer listed·54945438
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $92k → $137k.

13 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC’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

PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

80% 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 PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC.

18%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 35% · 2021 27% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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.

How long its funders stay

54% of PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC'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 $302k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 18%Fundraising 7%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC?
PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,490,753 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($272,850). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,490,753 in grants to PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $272,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PLURALISTIC SCHOOL INC 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 20 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