California · Nonprofit
SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,781 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,781). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $586k
What Sycamore Creek Community Charter School does
Mission
To develop students' capacities with a pedagogy based on the core principles of public waldorf education that fosters independent thinking, a willingness to face challenges, and a commitment to the world and the people in it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization formed an llc as the property holder of a new charter school facility project.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Sycamore Creek Community Charter School (scccs) operates a public charter school that meets the needs of families desiring a public waldorf education recognized by a focus on a "whole-child" philosophy. Scccs first began classes in september 2019 for students in transitional kindergarten (tk) to grade 6. The charter school has grown to offer grades tk to 8. Scccs is authorized to operate its charter school through an approved charter petition with the orange county department of education.
$2,056,606 spent76% of program spendingIn july 2024, the organization formed the scccs facilities llc. The llc serves as a property holding company for charter school facilities and its related debt. In november 2024, the llc entered into a loan agreement with the california school finance authority (csfa) for the issuance of $33,040,000 charter school revenue bonds, series a and $640,000 charter school revenue bonds, series b. The funds were used to acquire, construct, improve, furnish, and equip the school facilities at 4321 west cerritos avenue in cypress, california.
$647,764 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,704,370.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $37M (+2377%).
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: 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 88% · 2024 95% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Bach
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $261 → $419.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Scccs Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Scccs Community Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER 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 CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,781 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,781). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,781 in grants to SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,781 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYCAMORE CREEK COMMUNITY CHARTER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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