California · Nonprofit
TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,782 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($102,548). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $482k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Tustin Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
The Tustin Public Schools Foundation is dedicated to furthering excellence in local public schools by mobilizing the community and its resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community based programs: dinosaur dash: this community event provides an opportunity for families to participate together in our 2k fun run or the competitive 5k or 10k race or 15k/50k bike tours. Schools join together with families to run, walk, or ride together. Prior to event, many curriculum areas are involved. Students participate in a contest to design a logo, elementary school students create posters which are judged by high school students. Math is used to track registrations and physical education classes involve running to prepare for the race.state of the schools: annual breakfast in celebration of the tustin unified schools
$498,766 spent$541,545 earned by the program38% of program spendingSummer academy: the summer academy provides enrichment classes focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts and math (steam), along with other topics to excite students about learning. Courses are available for incoming kindergarten through incoming high school students.
$414,756 spent$479,542 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther program expenses: the foundation provides numerous programs including save our sports and classroom projects.save our sports: the Tustin Public Schools Foundation partners with the tustin unified school district and the community to keep after-school sports available to middle school students at all six middle schools.classroom projects: innovative classroom projects and school wide activities are supported through the Tustin Public Schools Foundation's grant program. Funding is provided for new books, science equipment, math manipulatives, and technology to better reach students.
$272,328 spent21% of program spendingGrants: classroom grants: innovative classroom projects and school wide activities are supported through the Tustin Public Schools Foundation's grant program. Funding is provided for new books, science equipment, math manipulatives, and technology to better reach students.other program grants: the foundation provides numerous programs including save our sports, summer academy, classroom grants, and various scholarship programs.
$129,025 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,314,875.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.5M (+48%).
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: 2021 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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 broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $27k → $54k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Tustin Public Schools Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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
TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 34% · 2019 45% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — 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
58% of TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
95% of TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $237k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: 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 TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,782 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($102,548). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $481,782 in grants to TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUSTIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 21 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