California · Nonprofit
WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL
WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,335,461 to it, the largest being SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC ($810,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Westlake Charter School does
Mission
Westlake Charter School's primary mission is to demonstrate what is possible when school and community collaborate to create inspiring adults with the academic and social-emotional readiness to lead as global citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Westlake Charter School is a k-12th grade public school that provides educational opportunities to the surrounding community. Westlake Charter School opened in 2005 and recently celebrated our 20th year of service to our community.
$14,953,008 spent$31,220 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe operation of base, which is Westlake Charter School's before and after school enrichment program that provides working parents an opportunity to have their children arrive early and stay later than school hours.
$149,153 spent$282,407 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,102,161.
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 2024 to 2025, from $16M to $19M (+21%).
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 89% · 2018 88% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 94% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL’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
John Eick
Executive director
Board chair
Hope Gawlick
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $223k.
2 of 5 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 WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 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
WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
100% 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 WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 95% · 2022 75% · 2023 52% — 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 WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL 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
Organizations like WESTLAKE 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wave Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTLAKE 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 WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,335,461 to it, the largest being SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC ($810,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,335,461 in grants to WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTLAKE CHARTER SCHOOL?
- SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTLAKE 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 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