California · Nonprofit
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,670,385 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY ($10,788,510). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $325k
What Schools and Communities First does
Mission
Support well-being of state of california by working to reform commercial property taxes, while guaranteeing existing protections for residential property and agricultural land.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Post election work after qualifying and advocating for proposition 15, a statewide ballot measure for the november 3, 2020 election, with the goal of reforming commercial property taxes in california. Closing california's commercial property tax loophole will restore $11 billion for schools, community colleges and other vital community services, includingemergency response services, parks, libraries, health clinics, traumacenters, affordable housing, homeless services, and roads.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $4.4M to $340k (−92%).
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.
0% of SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.3M.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST’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
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 49% · 2019 52% · 2020 79% · 2021 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 FY2021, 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
93% of SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST's revenue fell 100% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: 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 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST?
- SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,670,385 to it, the largest being CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY ($10,788,510). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $16,670,385 in grants to SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST?
- CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE ADVOCACY is the largest funder on record, with $10,788,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 25 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