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ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL

ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,991 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($266,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.6M
Revenue FY2025
13
Funders on record
$525k
Grants received
$777k
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($146k)2019 Revenue 94 ($2.0M) Expenses 98 ($1.9M) Net assets 148 ($217k)2020 Revenue 101 ($2.2M) Expenses 108 ($2.1M) Net assets 170 ($249k)2021 Revenue 118 ($2.5M) Expenses 116 ($2.3M) Net assets 317 ($465k)2022 Revenue 139 ($3.0M) Expenses 147 ($2.9M) Net assets 357 ($523k)2023 Revenue 158 ($3.4M) Expenses 172 ($3.4M) Net assets 339 ($497k)2024 Revenue 142 ($3.0M) Expenses 158 ($3.1M) Net assets 263 ($385k)2025 Revenue 166 ($3.6M) Expenses 160 ($3.2M) Net assets 530 ($777k)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (160)Net assets (530)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 62% · 2019 73% · 2020 83% · 2021 93% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% · 2024 85% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$158k
18
$70k
19
$32k
20
$216k
21
$58k
22
$26k
23
$112k
24
$392k
25
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $153k → $49k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)92% 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 ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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

ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL.

51%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 46% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 33%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

67% of ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

92% of ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

IL
NY
CA
AR
TX

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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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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 ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL?
ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $524,991 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($266,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $524,991 in grants to ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $266,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROSS VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 13funders 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