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The American Foundation For The Iyari School

The American Foundation For The Iyari School (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,200 to it, the largest being Congdon Family Foundation ($680,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$351k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$731k
Net assets
$11k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What The American Foundation For The Iyari School does

Mission

The Foundations charitable activity will be focused on raising funds to support the Iyari School (the School), a non-profit organization located in Cayeres, Mexico. The Iyari School will provide a core K-12 curriculum based on the principles and standards of the United States educational system. The curriculum will offer a broad, generalized education that encourages students to study a range of disciplines in order to prepare them to enter schools, colleges, and universities in the United States. Courses will be taught primarily in English, supplemented with language courses and activities in Spanish. Admission will be open to the children of local residents, seasonal residents, and expatriates living in the surrounding area.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide financial support for the Iyari School.

    $322,139 spentof which $278,441 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $322,139.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($8k) Net assets 100 ($141k)2022 Revenue 19 ($28k) Expenses 54 ($5k) Net assets 117 ($164k)2023 Revenue 234 ($349k) Expenses 6007 ($499k) Net assets 10 ($14k)2024 Revenue 236 ($351k) Expenses 4267 ($355k) Net assets 8 ($11k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (236)Expenses (4267)Net assets (8)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $164k to $14k (−91%).

$0
$141k
$164k
$14k
$11k
20202021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

’20
$141k
’21
$24k
’22
−$150k
’23
−$3k
’24
0.4
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.

20232024
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $116k → $301k.

From the IRS filings of The American Foundation For The Iyari 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.

How concentrated its funding is

The American Foundation For The Iyari School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.

Where its funders are

94% of The American Foundation For The Iyari School's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DE

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The American Foundation For The Iyari 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 The American Foundation For The Iyari School?
The American Foundation For The Iyari School (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,200 to it, the largest being Congdon Family Foundation ($680,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The American Foundation For The Iyari School have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $731,200 in grants to The American Foundation For The Iyari School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The American Foundation For The Iyari School?
Congdon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $680,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The American Foundation For The Iyari 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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