California · Nonprofit
SHARK FUND
SHARK FUND (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,236 to it, the largest being APPELBAUM-KAHN FOUNDATION CO CONNOLLY SWITAJ FOGLER & CO LLP ($12,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Shark Fund does
Mission
The Shark Fund's mission is to make Malibu High School and Malibu Middle School among the finest in the nation.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Through grants and direct expenditures on behalf of Malibu High School and Malibu Middle School, the organization helped to fund the operations of those schools' various departments, special programs, athletics, Arts, parent/teacher/student association and office, as well as the maintenance of its facilities, including filtered water stations, and school staff training.
$206,703 spent$133,489 earned by the program50% of program spendingProvide funding for the arts in Malibu public schools
$204,605 spent$2,011 earned by the program50% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,308.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2025 to 2026, from $350k to $74k (−79%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SHARK FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Karen Mihkels Al-harden
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $3k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SHARK FUND’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
SHARK FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 38% · 2019 54% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% — 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
29% of SHARK FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
61% of SHARK FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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
SHARK FUND's revenue fell 42% between 2021 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like SHARK FUND
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SHARK FUND: 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 SHARK FUND?
- SHARK FUND (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,236 to it, the largest being APPELBAUM-KAHN FOUNDATION CO CONNOLLY SWITAJ FOGLER & CO LLP ($12,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARK FUND have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $92,236 in grants to SHARK FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARK FUND?
- APPELBAUM-KAHN FOUNDATION CO CONNOLLY SWITAJ FOGLER & CO LLP is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARK FUND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 14 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