California · Nonprofit
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,393,466 to it, the largest being RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,515,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $113M
What Santa Catalina School does
Mission
Santa Catalina School exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization's main activities are the operation of both santa catalina lower and middle school and Santa Catalina School. Santa catalina lower and middle school is monterey's preeminent co-ed day school for students in pre-kindergarten - grade 8. Santa Catalina School is an exemplary all-girls boarding and day school in monterey for students in grades 9-12.
$21,092,498 spentof which $4,430,997 as grants$21,269,333 earned by the program96% of program spendingThe organization operates summer at catalina, which is a sleepaway & day camp in monterey for girls ages 8 - 14. All campers participate in exciting classes, community building, and fun-filled camp activities.
$804,996 spent$1,102,490 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,897,494.
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 2021 to 2022, from $124M to $108M (−13%).
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 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Laura Lyon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $818k → $2.4M.
20 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 33% · 2019 59% · 2020 43% · 2021 51% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
72% of SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL: 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 SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL?
- SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,393,466 to it, the largest being RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,515,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $16,393,466 in grants to SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL?
- RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 84 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