California · Nonprofit
PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC
PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,620,351 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($11,922,394). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Presidio Knolls School Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to nurture the young heart and mind in a joyful learning environment, where the convergence of progressive education and mandarin immersion ignites curiosity, connectedness, and engagement in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Presidio knolls schoool (pks) is a private, non-profit, coeducational school founded as a preschool in 2006 in san francisco, california, offering a reggio emilia inspired educational approach with mandarin immersion program. In 2012, the school began an emerging k-8 program. During the year ended june 30, 2025, enrollment in the school, currently with preschool through 8th grade, was approximately 400 students.auxiliary programs provide students with opportunities to engage in supervised activities beyond the regular school day in a familiar school environment. Programs include extended care, enrichment classes, athletics, and summer camp offerings. (see schedule o)extended care is offered before and after school with advance registration. Activities include outdoor play, free-choice activity centers, and snacks for preschool students, and supervised free play and outdoor activities for elementary and middle school students. Optional fee-based enrichment classes are available during extended care hours.enrichment programs are offered throughout the school year on campus and include a variety of fee-based classes such as art, robotics, chess, language, performing arts, and other…
$15,811,298 spentof which $1,874,951 as grants$19,083,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,811,298.
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 2018 to 2019, from $46M to $61M (+34%).
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: 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC’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. 0 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
Theresa Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $520k.
10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PRESIDIO KNOLLS 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
PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 63% · 2021 40% · 2022 82% · 2023 31% — 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
46% of PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of PRESIDIO KNOLLS 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 $384k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PRESIDIO KNOLLS 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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC: 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 PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC?
- PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,620,351 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($11,922,394). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $14,620,351 in grants to PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESIDIO KNOLLS SCHOOL INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,922,394 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESIDIO KNOLLS 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 21 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