California · Nonprofit
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,583 to it, the largest being CAHALIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funders
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio match
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $45k → $165k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 REAL WORLD SCHOLARS 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
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 39% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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
REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ingenuityne Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Education Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Drexel Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte and Joseph Gardner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dinosaurs and Rosesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL WORLD SCHOLARS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC?
- REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,583 to it, the largest being CAHALIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $534,583 in grants to REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL WORLD SCHOLARS INC?
- CAHALIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL WORLD SCHOLARS 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing