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California · Nonprofit
URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS (California) is funded by 6 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $800,268 in grants to it, the largest being THE UDA FOUNDATION ($504,262). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 11,390 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,390 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
98% of URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (49% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
$35k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $103k and 1 in 2018.
2 of 6 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 URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 54% · 2021 97% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% · 2024 100% · 2025 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
URBAN DISCOVERY SCHOOLS is locally rooted: 98% of its grant income comes from California funders.
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.
78% of spending goes to programs.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 6funders 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