California · Nonprofit
RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS
RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,139,324 to it, the largest being LEADERS & SCHOLARS INC ($575,579). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What River Charter Schools does
Mission
Growing leaders and scholars through collaborative culture and community. River Charter Schools will provide a family oriented, community-based intimate learning environment that is devoted to the academic, social, linguistic, and personal success of each child. Its schools have the primary objective of enabling its students to become self-motivated, competent, and lifelong learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of delta elementary charter school to serve students in the community.
$4,697,304 spent42% of program spendingOperation of lighthouse charter school to serve students in the community.
$6,533,132 spent58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,230,436.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $3.2M to $4.9M (+56%).
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 95% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Omar Carillo
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $165k → $82.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS’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
RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $985 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.
Government funding RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $451k on record.
- Department of Education$451k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Leaders & Scholars LLC · disregarded
- Leaders & Scholars Two LLC · disregarded
- Leaders & Scholars Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS: 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 RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,139,324 to it, the largest being LEADERS & SCHOLARS INC ($575,579). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,139,324 in grants to RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- LEADERS & SCHOLARS INC is the largest funder on record, with $575,579 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIVER CHARTER SCHOOLS 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 6 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