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SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND

SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,908 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,716). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$130k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$102k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Sandburg Elementary School Found does

Mission

To support the educational activities and operations of carl sandburg elementary school and related purposes.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization provided engagement activities to promote community involvement to help raise funds to enrich student learning and after school programs

    $0 spent
  2. The organization provided enrichment activities that promotes an academic curriculum allowing students higher quality educational experience by supplementing the school curriculum

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($95k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($84k)2018 Revenue 119 ($113k) Expenses 89 ($82k) Net assets 137 ($115k)2019 Revenue 114 ($109k) Expenses 132 ($121k) Net assets 123 ($103k)2022 Revenue 77 ($73k) Expenses 60 ($55k) Net assets 108 ($90k)2023 Revenue 93 ($89k) Expenses 91 ($83k) Net assets 114 ($95k)2024 Revenue 112 ($106k) Expenses 92 ($85k) Net assets 140 ($117k)2025 Revenue 153 ($146k) Expenses 161 ($148k) Net assets 139 ($116k)2026 Revenue 136 ($130k) Expenses 156 ($144k) Net assets 122 ($102k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (156)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $84k to $115k (+37%).

$84k
$115k
$103k
$90k
$95k
$117k
$116k
$102k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’17
$31k
’18
−$12k
’19
$19k
’22
$5k
’23
$22k
’24
−$2k
’25
−$14k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $848 → $1k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND’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

SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND.

41%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 74% · 2023 59% — 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.

Where its funders are

71% of SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

IL
NY

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

’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2026.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND?
SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,908 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,716). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,908 in grants to SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANDBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing