California · Nonprofit
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,348,812 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,604,932). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What West Contra Costa Public Education Fund does
Mission
Grant making organization supporting students and education initiatives of West Contra Costa USD.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal Sponsorship - The Organization works in partnership with over 50 organizations that support children in West County. As a fiscal sponsor, the Organization helps secure district contracts, provides insurance and fingerprinting, ensures grant compliance, handles all financial transactions, and maintains a comprehensive donor database.
$3,566,416 spentof which $138,754 as grants$2,498,724 earned by the program55% of program spendingFund Development - The Organization works as a funding intermediary, collaborating closely with the philanthropic community to identify and secure funding for schools. Combined with the funds raised for fiscal projects, the Organization brought in over $5.5 million to support a range of projects and positions that benefit the students and the wider community.
$2,453,591 spentof which $238,786 as grants$1,721,905 earned by the program38% of program spendingCore Program - The Organization provides a core program that includes various activities: Teacher Excellence Award The Organization holds an annual event to determine the county representative for the Teaching Excellence awards. Scholarships The Organization has awarded nearly $1.7 million in scholarships to low-income college students from the West Contra Costa Unified School District in need of financial assistance. Camp Achieve The Organization partners with the City of Richmond to support four summer camp locations. Through this partnership, the city provides an 8-week, free program for kids in high-need neighborhoods. Art & Music Activities The Organization provides resources for teachers and students in the classrooms by giving grants and awards to various art projects.
$504,774 spentof which $30,446 as grants$212,297 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,524,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $6.1M to $7.9M (+30%).
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: 2019 19% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 21 funders, grant income rose $108k → $957k.
14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 56% · 2019 51% · 2020 56% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% — 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
30% of West Contra Costa Public Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
76% of West Contra Costa Public Education Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund: 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 West Contra Costa Public Education Fund?
- West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,348,812 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($1,604,932). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Contra Costa Public Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $7,348,812 in grants to West Contra Costa Public Education Fund, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Contra Costa Public Education Fund?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,604,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Contra Costa Public Education Fund 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 58 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