California Charter Schools Association
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 51-0465703. Reported 78 grants totalling $6,425,897 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For California Charter Schools Association, by its IRS classification it provides support services within education (NTEE B192).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 28% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,525. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $540,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Charter Schools Association Advocates | Sacramento, CA | $1,789,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| KIPP Bay Area Schools | Oakland, CA | $707,388 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Aspire Public Schools Foundation | Oakland, CA | $586,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education | Sacramento, CA | $480,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Napa Foundation for Options in Education | Napa, CA | $411,913 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Westlake Charter School | Sacramento, CA | $406,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Voices College-Bound Language Academies | San Jose, CA | $211,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Adalid Gonzalez and Parents United for Public School Choice | Los Angeles, CA | $189,220 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| River Charter Schools | Clarksburg, CA | $151,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rocketship Education | Redwood City, CA | $144,881 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Vista Charter Public Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $124,481 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Time Community Schools | Montebello, CA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Alpha Public Schools Inc | San Jose, CA | $109,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Opportunities for All Coalition | Sacramento, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alliance College-Ready Public Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knowledge Enlightens You | Dublin, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Growth Public Schools | Sacramento, CA | $71,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| California Legislative Black Caucus Policy Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| National Alliance for Public Charter Schools | Washington, DC | $63,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rocklin Academy | Rocklin, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alma Fuerte Public School | Pasadena, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Navigator Schools | Hollister, CA | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equitas Academy Charter School Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $52,058 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crete Academy | Los Angeles, CA | $28,491 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hayward Collegiate Charter | Hayward, CA | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University Preparatory Academy | San Jose, CA | $26,257 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| California Legislative Lgbt Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Los Angeles Charter School | Los Angeles, CA | $24,275 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Perseverance Preparatory School | San Jose, CA | $24,010 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Yu Ming Charter School | Oakland, CA | $23,230 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bridges Preparatory Academy | Compton, CA | $18,278 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| California Jewish Legislative Caucus Leadership Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Legislative Central Coast Caucus Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women in California Leadership Inc | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Chamber of Commerce | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Way California Foundation | Antelope, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Summit Public Schools | Redwood City, CA | $6,415 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ace Charter School | San Jose, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
22 of 40 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Ccsa Advocates
GRANT TO HIRE LOBBYING SERVICE PROVIDERS. - California Charter Schools Association Advocates
LOBBYING GRANT/REDISTRICTING RESEARCH GRANT - KIPP Bay Area Schools
ENROLLMENT GROWTH GRANT/CHARTER SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND GRANT. - Napa Foundation for Options in Education
CHARTER SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND GRANTS - Adalid Gonzalez and Parents United for Public School Choice
CHARTER SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND GRANT - Opportunities for All Coalition
DOANTION YES ON PROP 16 CAMPAIGN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $2,212,030 | $43,108 |
| 2021 | 24 | $1,277,252 | $23,115 |
| 2022 | 19 | $1,250,509 | $35,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $1,686,106 | $69,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,525 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from California Charter Schools Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 86087, Los Angeles, CA, 90086.
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