California · Nonprofit
VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER
VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $238M
What Vaughn Next Century Learning Center does
Mission
Vaughn is a large, urban, full-service, public charter school that provides maximum learning opportunities to students (tk through grade 12) so they will be successful academically, physically, and socially. Vaughn will prepare students to master grade level standards, think critically, and be ready for post-secondary learning; reduce social stressors that negatively impact child and family development, including poverty; create a professional and caring community among staff, families, and community; become a model for school reform locally, nationally and globally. To achieve its mission, vaughn provides high quality instructional programs, supports community development and workforce housing, and advances innovations to meet student emerging needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided public education to students in grades tk through 12, serving over 2,629 students, and provided 180 days of instruction. For the year with the most recently available statistics, 2024-25, vaughn's graduation rate was 98%, exceeding state graduation rate of 86%.
$47,711,922 spent$26,027 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,711,922.
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 $204M to $234M (+15%).
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 78% · 2018 90% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% · 2024 95% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Fidel Ramirez
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $0.
From the IRS filings of VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 5 funders by total. 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
VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
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 VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
92% of VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.5M on record.
- Department of Education$17.5M
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 VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vaughn Next Century Lc Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER: 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 VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER?
- VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $120,000 in grants to VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER?
- GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAUGHN NEXT CENTURY LEARNING CENTER 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 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