California · Nonprofit
Portal Schools
Portal Schools (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,962,056 to it, the largest being LLWW FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $509k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $39k
What Portal Schools does
Mission
ortal Schools delivers high school, college, and career immersion all on one campus. Our intentionally diverse communities and personalized approach to learning empowers students to find their voice, blaze their own trail, and thrive as engaged citizens. With interactive learning and on-the-job experience, Portal has redefined education to support the needs of young minds in an evolving world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Portal Schools delivers high school, college, and career immersion all on one campus. Our intentionally diverse communities and personalized approach to learning empowers students to find their voice, blaze their own trail, and thrive as engaged citizens. With interactive learning and on-the-job experience, Portal has redefined education to support the needs of young minds in an evolving world.
$820,203 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $820,203.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $483k to $1.4M (+185%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $325k → $486k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Portal Schools’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
Portal Schools has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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
17% of Portal Schools's funders are still giving 2 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
87% of Portal Schools's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Portal Schools
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
81% 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 Portal Schools: 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 Portal Schools?
- Portal Schools (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,962,056 to it, the largest being LLWW FOUNDATION ($500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Portal Schools have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,962,056 in grants to Portal Schools, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Portal Schools?
- LLWW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Portal Schools 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 2020–2024), 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