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SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,820 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($27,820). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$3.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$39k
Net assets
$1.0M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sycamore Community School does

Mission

To establish, operate, oversee, manage, advise, guide, direct, promote, replicate, support and hold contracts for one or more schools serving primary and secondary grade levels, and such other educational, community service or charitable activities.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Enrolling students, collecting tuition, and operating the k-8 school approved as a 501 (c) (3) organization and re-accredited by the western association of schools and colleges (wasc) in september 2025. Enrollment grew from 116 to 120 students and we added 1 part time staff member.

    $2,519,330 spent$2,454,251 earned by the program
    93% of program spending
  2. Operated instructional music and chess programs. Extensive after school programs offered include : debate, science, art studio, musical theatre and athletics (soccer, basketball, flag football, track.)

    $138,645 spent$185,690 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  3. School field trips are fun & educational. Transportation is generally via walking or metro, living out the school's mission of a dynamic learning experience through the civic/community engagement. Destinations include farmer's markets, libraries, museums & parks.

    $35,737 spent$37,568 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  4. Sycamore Community School summer camp

    $9,802 spent$31,835 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,703,514.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2022 Revenue 1374 ($814k) Expenses 12679 ($784k) Net assets 156 ($83k)2023 Revenue 2644 ($1.6M) Expenses 24905 ($1.5M) Net assets 206 ($109k)2024 Revenue 3693 ($2.2M) Expenses 29545 ($1.8M) Net assets 886 ($470k)2025 Revenue 4921 ($2.9M) Expenses 40954 ($2.5M) Net assets 1608 ($854k)2026 Revenue 5156 ($3.1M) Expenses 46886 ($2.9M) Net assets 1901 ($1.0M)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (5156)Expenses (46886)Net assets (1901)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $505k to $881k (+74%).

$53k
$98k
$135k
$505k
$881k
$1.2M
202120222023202420252026
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
’21
$30k
’22
$26k
’23
$361k
’24
$383k
’25
$155k
’26
2.2
months of
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.

20222023202420252026
Listed66777
Joined·+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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

SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL.

72%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

96% of SYCAMORE COMMUNITY 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

MN
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 204 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)120% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 204 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026

Organizations like SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYCAMORE COMMUNITY 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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Questions and answers

Who funds SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,820 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($27,820). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,820 in grants to SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SYCAMORE COMMUNITY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 5 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