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PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC

PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.3M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$5.3M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Provisional Educational Services Inc does

Mission

Education with an individualized approach.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation of a public charter school, provisional accelerated learning academy (pala). Pala provides nonclassroom-based instruction to students in greades 6 to 12.

    $4,906,866 spent$123,719 earned by the program
    92% of program spending
  2. Other educational programs to support student achievement, including operation of the upward bound program. Upward bound is focused on academically preparing low-income, first generation college students to enroll and graduate from a four-year college/university of their choice.

    $418,418 spent$90,520 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,325,284.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 153 ($8.3M) Expenses 112 ($5.4M) Net assets 286 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 95 ($5.1M) Expenses 130 ($6.3M) Net assets 205 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 122 ($6.6M) Expenses 139 ($6.7M) Net assets 197 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 142 ($7.7M) Expenses 158 ($7.6M) Net assets 202 ($3.2M)2025 Revenue 172 ($9.3M) Expenses 150 ($7.2M) Net assets 336 ($5.3M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (172)Expenses (150)Net assets (336)Peer revenue range

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 $2.6M to $5.4M (+105%).

$2.6M
$5.4M
$4.5M
$4.2M
$4.2M
$6.3M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 94% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$598k
’20
$2.9M
’21
−$1.1M
’22
−$126k
’23
$75k
’24
$2.1M
’25
1.6
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed777778
Joined·+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·01000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'25*
total
Share Our Strengthunclassified
$20k
funders
1
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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

PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.

Federal$4.0M
grants $4.0Mcontracts $0
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.6M
  • Department of Labor$1.4M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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 PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC.
Who is the largest funder of PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
SHARE OUR STRENGTH is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROVISIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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