California · Nonprofit
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,082 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($251,916). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $899k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $236k
What San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools does
Mission
Our organizations primary exempt purpose is to advance educational equity by supporting small, innovative public schools and the educators who serve them. We provide professional development, student leadership opportunities, community partnerships, and collaborative events that strengthen school communities and promote student success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Coaching and FacilitationSF-CESS provides coaching and training for partnered school leaders and organizations addressing the pattern of inequity for students within the present education system with a goal of interrupting and changing these patterns. This includes holding professional development trainings, hosting webinars, and direct services to individuals or teams through presenting our curriculum and practices.Summer Sessions (iGroups)SF-CESS holds week long institutes that are open for anyone to attend. During thisweek-long institute, participants are taken on an in-depth and hands-on course of our self-developed equity-based curriculum. The goal of the institute is for participants to be able to take and apply the methodologies and learning to their own circumstances.
$720,245 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $720,245.
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 2020 to 2021, from $614k to $339k (−45%).
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 56% · 2018 46% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 49% · 2022 3% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $252k → $55.
1 of 2 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 San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small 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
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166 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.
Against its field
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $252k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small 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 San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools?
- San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,082 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($251,916). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $252,082 in grants to San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $251,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small 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.
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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 2 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