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REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION

REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,313 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($421,896). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$625k
35/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Redwood High School Foundation does

Mission

The foundation provides support for academics, fine arts, athletics, and scholarships at the redwood high school in larkspur, california.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants were provided to redwood high school to support the academic, fine arts, and campus improvement programs.

    $1,109,769 spentof which $988,959 as grants
    89% of program spending
  2. Grants were provided to selected redwood high school students for the purpose of providing scholarships for post-secondary education.

    $121,200 spentof which $121,200 as grants
    10% of program spending
  3. Grants were provided to the benchwarmers, a california non-profit corporation, support the athletic programs of redwood high school.

    $20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,250,969.

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 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($897k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 126 ($1.6M) Expenses 200 ($1.8M) Net assets 77 ($775k)2023 Revenue 111 ($1.4M) Expenses 153 ($1.4M) Net assets 78 ($785k)2024 Revenue 107 ($1.3M) Expenses 166 ($1.5M) Net assets 62 ($626k)2025 Revenue 107 ($1.3M) Expenses 148 ($1.3M) Net assets 62 ($625k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (107)Expenses (148)Net assets (62)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $775k (−23%).

$1.0M
$775k
$785k
$626k
$625k
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

97% of REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 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.

$345k
’21
−$234k
’22
$11k
’23
−$161k
’24
−$1k
’25
5.6
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed19201899
Joined·+2+8+4+5
No longer listed·110135
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $54k → $376k.

19 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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

REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

82% 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 REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

19%
largest funder
50%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 26% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 27% · 2022 22% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.

“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

45% of REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION'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 $390k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside California, across 17 states.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
CO
MO
DE
KS
AR
NC
SC
HI
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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

Against its field

REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
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

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Redwood High School · exempt
  • Redwood High School Benchwarmers · exempt
  • Redwood High School Pts · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,167,313 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($421,896). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,167,313 in grants to REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $421,896 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing