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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
56/84 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    96% of program spending
  2. The 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 program
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,897,494.

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 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($85M)2018 Revenue 93 ($23M) Expenses 106 ($22M) Net assets 103 ($88M)2019 Revenue 104 ($25M) Expenses 104 ($21M) Net assets 108 ($92M)2020 Revenue 96 ($23M) Expenses 103 ($21M) Net assets 112 ($95M)2021 Revenue 77 ($19M) Expenses 98 ($20M) Net assets 125 ($106M)2022 Revenue 107 ($26M) Expenses 112 ($23M) Net assets 119 ($101M)2023 Revenue 103 ($25M) Expenses 122 ($25M) Net assets 124 ($105M)2024 Revenue 104 ($25M) Expenses 146 ($30M) Net assets 124 ($106M)2025 Revenue 128 ($31M) Expenses 138 ($28M) Net assets 133 ($113M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (138)Net assets (133)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 2021 to 2022, from $124M to $108M (−13%).

$99M
$101M
$106M
$109M
$124M
$108M
$118M
$119M
$128M
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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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.9M
’17
$940k
’18
$4.0M
’19
$2.1M
’20
−$1.3M
’21
$3.1M
’22
$151k
’23
−$4.6M
’24
$3.0M
’25
7.7
months of
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.

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Listed393432333233353633
Joined·+10+3+7+23+7+5+7+8
No longer listed·15562463611
03Who funds it

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.

34%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

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

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California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

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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