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California · Nonprofit
THE DAHLIA SCHOOL (California) is funded by 8 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $659,675 in grants to it, the largest being The Wildflower Foundation ($288,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE DAHLIA SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,868 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,868 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
$18k from 2 funders in 2024, up from $275k and 2 in 2021.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 DAHLIA SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
THE DAHLIA SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2021 93% · 2022 76% · 2023 43% · 2024 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
0% of THE DAHLIA SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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.
THE DAHLIA SCHOOL draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside California — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
51% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 8funders 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. view filing