California · Nonprofit
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,722,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,082,400). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Tandem Partners in Early Learning does
Mission
Tandem, partners in early learning is a bay area nonprofit working at the intersection of social justice and early childhood education. We work alongside school districts, early childhood education agencies and community-based organizations to co-create equitable, high-quality early learning experiences. We envision a just society where children thrive. We are collaboratively developing an ecosystem that supports children wherever they go: in their homes, schools, child care, libraries, health centers, parks, and more. By partnering with adults across children's lives, we deliver impactful early learning experiences that meet community priorities and address systemic barriers to opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early learning everywhere - focuses on supporting children who are not enrolled in preschool by partnering with community organizations to provide high-quality learning experiences for children and caregivers. Ele programs include: caregiver & family support professional workshops, literacy champions, give me 5, social-emotional learning and trauma-informed care, etc. (see tandem's annual report for more info)
$1,039,264 spent$67,126 earned by the program40% of program spendingStorycycles, our school-to-home book-sharing program, provides families with the access they need to high-quality children's books. Our multilingual books are age- and culturally-appropriate, and are sent home with children on a weekly basis from schools, family child care centers, and other tandem partner sites throughout san francisco, alameda, and contra costa counties.
$1,558,897 spent$368,572 earned by the program60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,598,161.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $5.2M (+124%).
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: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 41% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% · 2024 16% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING’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 9 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
Savitha Moorthy
President/executive director
Board chair
Lisa Olson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $408k → $1.1M.
20 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 35% · 2019 25% · 2020 35% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 29% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
53% of TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING's revenue grew 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: 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 TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING?
- TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,722,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,082,400). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $8,722,250 in grants to TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,082,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING 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 61 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