California · Nonprofit
WILDER FOUNDATION
WILDER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Wilder Foundation does
Mission
To provide children with the foundation needed to become mature self-guided learners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide a curriculum, which addresses the goals of the community with an emphasis on literacy education, skills programs to enhance the learning of students who have fallen behind in the traditional public school system and standards-based curriculums which are mearsurable and accountable with strong parent involvement. The charter school's academic focus is a strong reserach-based skills program emphasizing language arts, computational and mathematical reasoning, a rigorous science and history/social studies program and an emphasis on technology.
$7,556,205 spent$7,556,205 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,556,205.
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 $11M to $15M (+35%).
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 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WILDER FOUNDATION’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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Ramona Wilder
CEO
Board chair
Artie Gatewood
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WILDER FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
WILDER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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
WILDER FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves 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 WILDER FOUNDATION
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
65% 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 WILDER FOUNDATION: 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 WILDER FOUNDATION?
- WILDER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILDER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to WILDER FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDER FOUNDATION?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDER FOUNDATION 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 1 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