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RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN

RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,221 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,701). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$615k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$465k
Net assets
$485k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Rancho Romero Education Fund San Ramon Valley Education Fdtn does

Mission

Rancho romero education fund raises funds and provides funding forvarious educational and enrichment programs at rancho romero elementaryschool in alamo, california. Rancho romero education fund is an affiliateof the san ramon valley education foundation and is a non-profitorganization dedicated to raising funds to help maintain and enhance thequality of education at rancho romero school through the collaboration ofparents, educators, the school's site council and the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rancho Romero Education Fund is committed to funding music, art, reading, math, lunchtime sports, and classroom aides. These programs are not funded by the school district. RREF is also sponsoring an After School Enrichment Program, offering after-school classes for all students (TK-5th grade) covering sports, language, math, sewing, and more!

    $743,702 spentof which $726,546 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $743,702.

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 ($405k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($404k)2018 Revenue 99 ($402k) Expenses 100 ($444k) Net assets 90 ($363k)2019 Revenue 107 ($434k) Expenses 107 ($475k) Net assets 79 ($321k)2020 Revenue 118 ($476k) Expenses 83 ($370k) Net assets 106 ($427k)2021 Revenue 48 ($195k) Expenses 58 ($256k) Net assets 91 ($366k)2022 Revenue 153 ($619k) Expenses 56 ($248k) Net assets 182 ($737k)2023 Revenue 129 ($520k) Expenses 103 ($457k) Net assets 195 ($789k)2024 Revenue 127 ($513k) Expenses 153 ($682k) Net assets 154 ($621k)2025 Revenue 152 ($615k) Expenses 170 ($754k) Net assets 120 ($485k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (152)Expenses (170)Net assets (120)

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 $366k to $737k (+101%).

$404k
$363k
$321k
$427k
$366k
$737k
$789k
$621k
$485k
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$40k
’17
−$41k
’18
−$42k
’19
$106k
’20
−$61k
’21
$371k
’22
$63k
’23
−$168k
’24
−$139k
’25
7.7
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed141416161211212010
Joined·+6+10+2+5+3+13+5+3
No longer listed·682943613
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $41k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN’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

RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN.

29%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2019 98% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 54% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

83% of RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN'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 $80k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.

CA
DE
NC
TX

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

’18
’19
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $385k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN

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

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN?
RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,221 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,701). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $465,221 in grants to RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,701 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RANCHO ROMERO EDUCATION FUND SAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FDTN 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.

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 11 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