California · Nonprofit
SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,371 to it, the largest being Gilead Foundation ($1,075,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $938k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $332k
What San Mateo-Foster City Community Education Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is committed to reaching every child in the san mateo foster city school district. A strong school district does more than just support the children in its care, it impacts the entire community. A strong school district produces a smart and motivated supply of workers, and benefits the local economy, sustaining local businesses and property prices. We are committed to reaching out to our greater community, raising awareness of the value of supporting local schools to those outside of the immediate parent base. We believe so strongly in this that several members of the board are devoted entirely to outreach, both within the school district and outside to the corporations and businesses that rely on our business and the workforce that this district is creating.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Through generous contributions from corporations, parents, and the community, the smfc education foundation is able to help fund:- music education at every elementary school- after-school athletics at our middle schools- scholarships for under privileged children to aid them in their education and move towards attending college.
$642,309 spentof which $635,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $642,309.
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 2024 to 2025, from $144k to $332k (+131%).
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: 2022 3% · 2023 14% · 2024 9% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Karina Wilhelms
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $611k.
10 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest San Mateo-Foster City Community Education Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY 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 MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 77% · 2022 50% · 2023 82% — 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
50% of SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
100% of SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $653k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,371 to it, the largest being Gilead Foundation ($1,075,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,825,371 in grants to SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- Gilead Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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