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SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.0M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$66k
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
0/3 repeat funders

Against its field

SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin64% · top quartile
Months of reserve38.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)67% · top quartile

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 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($217k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($361k)2023 Revenue 5 ($10k) Expenses 44 ($27k) Net assets 95 ($344k)2024 Revenue 354 ($768k) Expenses 142 ($87k) Net assets 284 ($1.0M)2025 Revenue 466 ($1.0M) Expenses 596 ($366k) Net assets 573 ($2.1M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (466)Expenses (596)Net assets (573)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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$156k
22
$17k
23
$681k
24
$647k
25
39
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% 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 LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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 LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

41%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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 SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

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 SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ($27,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,500 in grants to SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN LUIS OBISPO CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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