California · Nonprofit
VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL
VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044 to it, the largest being BEN H AND GLADYS ARKELIAN FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $772k
What Valley Oak Charter School does
Mission
Valley oak charter is dedicated to supporting and empowering homeschooled students and their families as they take an active role in designing and implementing an educational program that addresses state standards while igniting a passion for learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Valley oak charter is a tuition free public charter school serving students in grades tk-12. Our credentialed teachers oversee the independent study programs of enrolled students, while providing support to parents in the areas of curriculum implementation and best practices in instruction. As the authorizing district, the ojai unified school district provides oversight of the charter school operations and the valley oak charter board of directors is responsible for the academic and financial success of the school. For the 24-25 fy, the school served an average of 74 students for the year.
$664,886 spent$13,180 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $664,886.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.2M to $2.0M (−11%).
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: 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 94% · 2021 80% · 2022 92% · 2023 90% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of VALLEY OAK CHARTER 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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Shawna Garritson
Executive director
Board chair
Jaclyn Walker
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $114 → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 VALLEY OAK CHARTER 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
VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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 VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $544 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VALLEY OAK CHARTER 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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL?
- VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044 to it, the largest being BEN H AND GLADYS ARKELIAN FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,044 in grants to VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY OAK CHARTER SCHOOL?
- BEN H AND GLADYS ARKELIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY OAK CHARTER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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