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THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS
THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,647 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Theresa Hessling Charter School Project Dba San Diego Cooperative Charters does
Mission
The mission is to support a progressive, developmentally based, child-centered community for active and collaborative student learning where shared values of family, diversity, relationship, creativity and academic excellence flourish.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
San diego cooperative charter school sdccs: operation of a public charter school for students in grades k-8 at the organization's linda vista and mountain view campuses. Constructivsm is the educational philosophy. The school's unique teaching method provides education to students through exploration, reasoning and discussion. San diego cooperative charter school is distinctive for its small class sizes, the growing diversity of the faculty and students, the high quality of its teachers, a caring and nurturing environment, and the strength of its curriculum. The school's goal for each student is always the same: to provide significant experiences that will begin a lifelong process of dicovery leading to a richly rewarding and happy life.
$5,837,282 spent100% of program spendingOperation of an extended day program edp to offer a quality before and after school childcare program that is based on the same cooperative philosophy employed by the charter school, which provides a safe, supportive environment and encourages parent participation. Edp is a high quality, well-supervised program which offers a balance of activities designed to develop self-esteem and provides a creative educational and recreational experience for children.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,837,282.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.5M to $5.4M (+52%).
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 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 95% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $358.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS’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
THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 71% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- Department of Education$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS?
- THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,647 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,647 in grants to THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THERESA HESSLING CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT DBA SAN DIEGO COOPERATIVE CHARTERS 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.
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 6 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