California · Nonprofit
SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,999,971 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,848,355). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Silicon Valley International School does
Mission
Silicon Valley International School's focus on inquiry and bilingualism empowers young minds to embrace complexity, think critically from multiple perspectives, and demonstrate integrity and sensitivity across cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
From preschool to 12th grade we offer a bilingual international baccalaureate education that culminates with the ib diploma, the most comprehensive and rigorous college preparatory program. In preschool and pk, students spend between 85% of their instructional time in the immersion language (french or chinese) and 15% in english. In kindergarten through fifth grades, students spend between 60% to 75% of their instructional time in the immersion language (french, chinese, or german ). The french curriculum follows guidelines from the french ministry of education, allowing students to continue their studies on grade level in any french school in the world (continuation in sch o) after they leave intl. The sixth through eighth grade middle school combines the french, chinese, and german programs to create an international middle school. Students from the three programs are mixed for classes taught in english and separated for classes taught in their immersion language. The middle school program prepares students for success in american, french, or international high schools. The ninth through twelfth grade high school offers an international baccalaureate diploma programme, which…
$29,904,289 spentof which $185,572 as grants$31,743,518 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,904,289.
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.
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 $52M to $81M (+56%).
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 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Ellick Butt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $313k → $2.1M.
16 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 34% · 2019 46% · 2020 50% · 2021 54% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — 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
52% of SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
88% of SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Organizations like SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,999,971 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,848,355). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $9,999,971 in grants to SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,848,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL 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 36 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