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SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL

SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,893 to it, the largest being JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ($6,990). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$18M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$18k
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL has grown faster than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 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 ($9.8M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 97 ($9.5M) Expenses 94 ($9.4M) Net assets 111 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 111 ($11M) Expenses 102 ($10M) Net assets 155 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 111 ($11M) Expenses 105 ($11M) Net assets 180 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 118 ($12M) Expenses 112 ($11M) Net assets 206 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 141 ($14M) Expenses 136 ($14M) Net assets 223 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 154 ($15M) Expenses 148 ($15M) Net assets 252 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 166 ($16M) Expenses 138 ($14M) Net assets 420 ($6.2M)2025 Revenue 182 ($18M) Expenses 190 ($19M) Net assets 389 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (182)Expenses (190)Net assets (389)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 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.

$177k
17
$163k
18
$648k
19
$367k
20
$396k
21
$253k
22
$419k
23
$2.5M
24
$1.1M
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21 → $1k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% 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 SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

40% 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 SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL.

39%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 78%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

61% of SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.

WI
CA

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

22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTIAGO MIDDLE 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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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 SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,893 to it, the largest being JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ($6,990). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $17,893 in grants to SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTIAGO MIDDLE 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.

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 6funders 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