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Qualia The School for Deeper Learning

Qualia The School for Deeper Learning (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,916 to it, the largest being WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$537k
Net assets
$-383301
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Qualia The School for Deeper Learning does

Mission

To operate a school and perform related educational and charitable activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of Qualia, The School for Deeper Learning.

    $2,318,477 spent$2,859,422 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,318,477.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2022 Revenue 3227 ($2.0M) Expenses 4860 ($2.1M) Net assets -511 ($-94247)2023 Revenue 2652 ($1.6M) Expenses 5141 ($2.2M) Net assets -932 ($-171996)2024 Revenue 3642 ($2.3M) Expenses 5851 ($2.5M) Net assets -2480 ($-457663)2025 Revenue 4805 ($3.0M) Expenses 6678 ($2.9M) Net assets -2077 ($-383301)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (4805)Expenses (6678)Net assets (-2077)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $2.6M (+93%).

$322k
$469k
$1.3M
$2.6M
$2.3M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of Qualia The School for Deeper Learning’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’21
−$113k
’22
−$590k
’23
−$286k
’24
$74k
’25
1.4
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

Spencer Krull

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed3666
Joined·+3+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $300k → $219k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Qualia The School for Deeper Learning’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

Qualia The School for Deeper Learning leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of Qualia The School for Deeper Learning's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
FL

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

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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

Qualia The School for Deeper Learning has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)163% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
50%
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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Qualia The School for Deeper Learning: 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 Qualia The School for Deeper Learning?
Qualia The School for Deeper Learning (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $536,916 to it, the largest being WASSERMAN FOUNDATION ($500,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Qualia The School for Deeper Learning have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $536,916 in grants to Qualia The School for Deeper Learning, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Qualia The School for Deeper Learning?
WASSERMAN 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 Qualia The School for Deeper Learning 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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