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TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL
TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,584 to it, the largest being TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($45,331). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Truckee Charter School Foundation Dba Sierra Expeditionary Learning School does
Mission
The mission of sierra expeditionary learning school is to inspire a diverse group of learners to achieve academic excellence while developing a strong sense of character and community. Our goal is to preserve each child's natural curiosity and love of learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Sierra expeditionary learning school (sels) is a public charter school in the tahoe truckee unified school district. Originating from the vision of fourteen founding families, sels was granted its charter in march, 2010. Sels believes in educating the whole child, attending to not only academics but also character, physical, and emotional well-being, and service to the community. We believe multi-age classrooms and integrated, community-connectedcurriculum will help build stronger relationships between students and teachers, and lead towards a safer, more vibrant school environment so critical to the teaching and learning process.
$2,289,649 spent$35,295 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,289,649.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+16%).
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 87% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Dave Cohen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $20k.
5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING 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
TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 64% — 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
100% of TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL?
- TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,584 to it, the largest being TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($45,331). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,584 in grants to TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL?
- TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING 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.
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 5 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