California · Nonprofit
WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM
WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,898 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,415). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $905k
What Wildflower Open Classroom does
Mission
Wildflower Open Classroom focuses on the education of the "whole child" by supporting the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical needs of our students. With a diverse learning environment, students flourish through the use of innovative curriculum and instruction. Our goal is that each child is empowered to reach their innate intellectual, creative, and leadership potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation a public charter school, Wildflower Open Classroom, serving over 180 students in grades tk to 8 in chico, california. We are an innovative school that invites children, teachers and parents to collaborate as a community and to celebrate the adventure of learning. The founding group identified eight core values: collaboration, community, stewardship, joy and adventure in learning, integrity, personal responsibility, being respectful, and positive communication/honesty. These values will be the guiding principles for all actions and decisions made by the Wildflower Open Classroom community (board, administration, teachers, parents, students, and community volunteers).
$2,635,844 spent$94,814 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,635,844.
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 $702k to $1.6M (+130%).
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 92% · 2018 91% · 2019 89% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM’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. 2 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
Sierra Grossman
Chair/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $9k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM’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
WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
95% 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 WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2023 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
95% of WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM: 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 WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM?
- WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,898 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($18,415). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,898 in grants to WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILDFLOWER OPEN CLASSROOM 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 3 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