California · Nonprofit
RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC
RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,053,041 to it, the largest being STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $340k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $874k
What Rural Education & Development Inc does
Mission
Read facilitates the creation of self-sustaining and community-led library and resource centers that serve as a foundational platform for unlocking a communitys social and economic potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Read centers and programs - read builds cohesive, inclusive, and resilient communities where everyone especially the most marginalized, access and benefit from knowledge, resources, and opportunities necessary to shape their own dignified and fulfillling futures. Reads method of facilitation empowers communities to recognize and believe in their own inherent potential to solve local problems and foster greater prosperity. By fortifying the community library and resource center (read center) as a foundational platform for unlocking a communitys social and economic potential, read initiates enduring community-level transformation.
$376,426 spentof which $164,619 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $376,426.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.7M to $1.0M (−39%).
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.
79% of RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sanjana Shrestha
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $365k → $363k.
11 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 58% · 2019 32% · 2020 36% · 2021 69% · 2022 66% · 2023 55% — 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 RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
56% of RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $846k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC?
- RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,053,041 to it, the largest being STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,175,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,053,041 in grants to RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT INC?
- STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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