INCOME

Challenge Learning Center earns about half of our $170,000 annual income from fee-for-service client groups.  The other half comes from donations from individuals, and grants from foundations and corporations. Our most recent corporate and foundation donors include:

Google Inc.
John and Marcia Goldman Foundation
Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto
Los Altos Town Crier Holiday Fund
Mid-Peninsula Junior League
Rotary Club of Palo Alto

For a full listing of our funders from the past six years, please visit our Sponsors page.

EXPENSES

Last year we served over 2,138 participants.  We spend as much as possible directly for the youth we serve.  Over 74% of the expenses go toward our programs.  The rest of the expenses go toward general operating support, like the rent for our small one-room office, phones, etc., and fundraising expenses.  By publishing our Wish List, many of our goods and services are donated – such as the design, writing, and printing of our brochure and newsletter, the redesign of the website, photography, a plain paper fax, and a TV/VCR.

FULL DISCLOSURE

Challenge Learning Center is open about our operations and wants to fully share financial information.  Our current financial data is available on request, and it can also be found on www.guidestar.com  GuideStar, a national database of U.S. charitable organizations, gathers and distributes data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits.  From their home page do a "Quick Search" for Challenge Learning Center.

"Students were brought closer together through the challenges they faced, they truly understood and experienced teamwork, and it honestly changed the way my students interacted with each other.

-Charity Purse, Teacher, Cupertino HS