California · Nonprofit
THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS
THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,113,814 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($21,922,871). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $55M
- Net assets
- $15M
What The California Education Partners does
Mission
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing, equitable schools that serve all students well for the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
California education partners supports learning and collaboration between california's school districts and their partners to improve student success. Building on the most up-to-date research, expertise, and current advances in the field, the organization enables leading school districts across the state to partner with and learn from each other; to improve, innovate, and build internal capacity as learning opportunities; and to design and implement programs and policies that advance student achievement in their respective districts and, potentially, in districts throughout california. The organization achieves impact through many programs, including: (I) on track-which supports students to "get on and stay on track" for a-g graduation; (ii) stanford-sequoia k-12 research collaborative-which improves a range of student outcomes for english learners and increases access and equity to marginalized groups of students; (iii) stanford/sfusd partnership-which supports and promotes innovative, practical research, and (iv) pre-k to 3 coherence collaboration (p3cc)-which researches the effects of when a great preschool isn't aligned with k-12 in california school districts.
$6,401,667 spent$2,143,358 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,401,667.
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 2017 to 2018, from $12M to $22M (+73%).
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.
59% of THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS’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. 7 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
Philip Halperin
Board treasurer/executive director
Board chair
Jorge Ruiz De Velasco
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $5.5M.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS’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 CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 53% · 2019 63% · 2020 55% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% — 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
100% of THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
60% of THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k 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
THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
15%
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 THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS: 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 CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS?
- THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,113,814 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($21,922,871). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $55,113,814 in grants to THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,922,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS 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 9 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