California · Nonprofit
Sydney Paige Foundation
Sydney Paige Foundation (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,162 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,947). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $232k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Sydney Paige Foundation does
Mission
To provide low-income youth with the foundational tools and confidence needed to succeed in school through the donation of high-quality backpacks, books and school supplies to students most in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
SCHOOL PREPAREDNESSThrough the donation of high-quality backpacks, books and school supplies to Pre-K to College students in need, we aim to equip students with the foundational tools and confidence needed to learn and thrive in school. We are passionate that education is the number one path out of poverty and that graduation is essential to achieving financial freedom. We address the top reasons for school dropout (lack of confidence and lack of tools to do their work) and consistently check in with educators and social workers to ensure we are providing the items most needed. By providing students with quality, long-lasting supplies, the need for teachers to fill in supply gaps is also eliminated.38,587 students served. 23,479 backpacks, 578,810 school supplies donated.
$1,344,588 spent$1,467,389 earned by the program99% of program spendingLITERACYOur literacy initiative, launched in 2021, encompasses book borrowing as well as book ownership. Examples of book borrowing include donating to existing school and non-profit libraries based on their reading level and subject needs, creating mini libraries in transitional housing communities and replenishing neighborhood lending libraries. For book ownership, we give 1 bundle of 3 brand new books per child, toddler to young adult. We segment donations to ensure we provide a prioritized mix of STEM, social emotional and multicultural books to best meet the needs of each project.16,521 students served. 21,737 books donated.
$10,248 spent$14,578 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,354,836.
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 2021 to 2022, from $231k to $357k (+55%).
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.
97% of Sydney Paige Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Courtney Brockmeyer
Ed/CEO
Board chair
Lisa Hom
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $38k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Sydney Paige Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
Sydney Paige Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 Sydney Paige Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — 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
14% of Sydney Paige Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 35% 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
Sydney Paige Foundation draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Sydney Paige Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Sydney Paige Foundation
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Sydney Paige Foundation: 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 Sydney Paige Foundation?
- Sydney Paige Foundation (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,162 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,947). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sydney Paige Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $232,162 in grants to Sydney Paige Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sydney Paige Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sydney Paige Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 20 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