California · Nonprofit
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,809 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($824,042). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Resource Area for Teaching does
Mission
Raft believes that every child deserves a powerful learning experience. Raft's mission is to inspire joy through hands on learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education programs: we have various education programs. We have engaged over 19,000 students in hands-on steam learning and facilitated more than 146 hands-on steam events at schools and community centers with our maker mobile program. Served over 2,875 students in extended learning programming (summer school), delivered steamdream box (summer program materials), and developed 10 new steam learning activity kits.
$1,544,883 spent$1,057,565 earned by the program42% of program spendingResource centers & website: at raft's volunteer resource center, approximately 385 tons of donated materials are sorted, prepped, and assembled into hands-on learning kits by 7,050 community volunteers annually. Our website and online store offer 24/7 access to educational resources and raft expanded the online store and offered curbside pick-up and delivery options.
$1,140,398 spent$730,488 earned by the program31% of program spendingMaterials donation/upcycling program: raft diverts over 385 cubic tons of materials from landfills annually and makes them available for members in our resource center. Raft works with bay area companies to collect and upcycle materials they no longer need, from office supplies to lab equipment, so that raft can repurpose them into hands-on learning materials. Members can also buy them in bulk to create their own learning materials. Since being founded in 1994, raft has received over 10 million cubic feet of donated materials. Raft addresses educators' needs and provides educational materials that fulfill the necessary standards to prepare students for future careers.
$1,004,437 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,689,718.
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.
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 $19M to $17M (−11%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Jason Morrella
CEO
Board chair
Sundi Sundaresh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $415k → $455k.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
74% 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 RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 27% · 2019 29% · 2020 31% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
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
67% of RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: 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 RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING?
- RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,809 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($824,042). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,092,809 in grants to RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $824,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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