California · Nonprofit
SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,460,926 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($1,276,111). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $750k
What School-To-School International does
Mission
Our mission is to improve the lives and learning of children worldwide through thoughtful research, practice, and partnership. Continued on schedule o.School-To-School International (sts) is an international development organization dedicated to improving the lives of girls, boys, and their communities worldwide through access to quality education. We focus on creating conditions of success for children around the world. Last year, we partnered with individuals, government ministries, nongovernmental organizations, private foundations, and research institutions in 25 countries to assist with research, evaluation, curriculum, training, and strategic planning.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Strengthening teacher education and practice in malawi is a 5-year program providing technical support to the ministry of education (moe) and teacher training colleges (ttcs).goal: to improve the capacity of ttcs and the moe to manage and strengthen in-service primary teachers' preparation programs and to support the operationalization of the continuous professional development framework for primary school teacher.objective: strengthen primary teacher education preparation programs; and operationalize a continuous professional development (cpd) framework, (continued on sch. O)including an established system for new teacher induction.
$1,461,098 spent32% of program spendingUsaid transforming teacher education activity in zambiagoal: to strengthen the capacity of pre-service teacher training institutions to improve student learning outcomes in early grade reading instruction.objective: equip targeted colleges of education (coes) and university faculty and lecturers with the skills and experience necessary to deliver effective instruction to teachers in training; standardize, align, and link practical, evidence-based, pre-service teacher training and content with the primary school literacy curriculum; (continued on sch. O)and equip pre-service teachers in coes and universities with the professional skills necessary to deliver quality literacy instruction in primary schools.
$1,210,394 spent26% of program spendingAll children reading: a grand challenge for development (acr gcd), established in 2011 as a partnership between the u.s. Agency for international development (usaid), world vision and the australian government, advances edtech innovation and research to improve reading outcomes for marginalized children in low-resource contexts. Acr gcd is an ongoing series of competitions that leverages science and technology to source, test, and disseminate scalable solutions to improve literacy skills of early grade learners in developing countries. The global initiative focuses on sourcing new solutions, testing new ideas, accelerating, and scaling what works.(continued on sch. O)sts will provide monitoring, evaluation, research and learning services that ensure acr gcd advances edtech innovation and research by:* enhancing literacy learning for children with disabilities* driving the development and use of accessible books in underserved languages* strengthening foundations for literacy to improve early childhood learningsts will include monitoring and capacity building support; designing and implementing project evaluations, as well as other studies and assessments; designing a framework for…
$482,848 spent11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,431,330 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,585,670.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.0M (−30%).
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: 2017 97% · 2020 14% · 2021 3% · 2023 60% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Candace Debnam
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $807k → $9k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL’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
SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 58% · 2019 68% · 2020 82% · 2021 97% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL: 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 SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL?
- SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,460,926 to it, the largest being FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ($1,276,111). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,460,926 in grants to SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL?
- FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,276,111 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL-TO-SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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