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Santa Cruz educational institutions

There are 245 schools and educational institutions in the greater Santa Cruz metro area, including the cities of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. Combined, these Santa Cruz metro educational institutions employ 1,512 people, earn more than $164 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $461 million.
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Types of educational institutions in Santa Cruz

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Educational service providers
 
65
 
$10,649,587
Student service organizations
 
57
 
$13,021,098
Parent teacher associations
 
40
 
$2,522,333
Preschool, elementary, and secondary schools
 
37
 
$93,919,597
Scholarship and financial aid organizations
 
25
 
$256,243
Adult education and ESL centers
 
24
 
$1,916,404
Organizations supporting a single school or educational institution
 
17
 
$25,936,261
Fraternities and sororities
 
14
 
$398,412
Alumni associations
 
11
 
$11,159,345
Nurseries, preschools, and kindergartens
 
10
 
$10,138,056
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Job trends for Santa Cruz educational institutions

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
33
1-10
 
9
11-25
 
9
26-100
 
11
101 to 1,000
 
4
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of educational institutions in Santa Cruz

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
83
$250k to $1M
 
16
$1M to $5M
 
11
$5M to $25M
 
12
$25M to $100M
 
1
$100M+
 
0
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Directory of educational institutions in Santa Cruz

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Cabrillo College Foundation

The Cabrillo College Foundation was established in 1965, to provide aid supplementary to public tax dollars for the support and benefit of Cabrillo College.
Revenue
$10.7m
Assets
$63.1m
Employees
10
EIN
94-6121953
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Monte Vista Christian School (MVCS)

Monte Vista Christian School is dedicated to being the premier college preparatory Christian school in Northern California, committed to preparing students to be world changers.
Revenue
$17.8m
Assets
$30.3m
Employees
231
EIN
94-1358324
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Bay School

The Bay School is a year-round non-profit May Center School dedicated to educating individuals with autism spectrum disorders in Santa Cruz, CA.
Revenue
$5.5m
Assets
$6.0m
Employees
91
EIN
94-3313535
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pacific Collegiate School (PCS)

To provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of Santa Cruz County and bordering areas.
Revenue
$8.0m
Assets
$5.5m
Employees
145
EIN
77-0485136
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ceiba Public Schools

Ceiba Public Schools prepares low-income, non-urban students for college graduation and offers exceptional public charter schools in Watsonville, CA.
Revenue
$11.2m
Assets
$14.5m
Employees
78
EIN
20-5155858
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Baymonte Christian Schools

Baymonte Christian School offers a distinctively Christian and highly academic education in a loving and supportive environment.
Revenue
$5.6m
Assets
$5.7m
Employees
121
EIN
94-1674856
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Santa Cruz Montessori School (SCM)

Santa Cruz Montessori School (SCM) inspires life long learning and a peaceful world by nurturing the natural development of the whole child.
Revenue
$7.4m
Assets
$11.1m
Employees
82
EIN
94-1573507
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Gateway School

Gateway School cultivates K58 learners through progressive, whole-child education, fostering curiosity, agency, inclusion, and purpose through scholarship, citizenship, and social justice engagement.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$7.5m
Employees
63
EIN
94-2441484
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Association of Directors of Activities

CADAA trains students in leadership & activities. It holds camps, conferences and an annual convention for directors and advisors.
Revenue
$5.1m
Assets
$3.0m
Employees
3
EIN
33-0103776
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Santa Cruz Waldorf School

Nurtures self-directed, empathetic and free-thinking individuals with a rich curriculum inspired by Rudolf Steiner. Located in Santa Cruz, CA.
Revenue
$5.4m
Assets
$2.7m
Employees
57
EIN
94-2365874
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School

Kirby Prep empowers students to shape their futures with confidence through intellectual challenge in a responsive environment for grades 6-12.
Revenue
$8.0m
Assets
$15.9m
Employees
78
EIN
68-0413959
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Farmlink

California Farmlink invests in farmers and ranchers with land access, education, and flexible loans for low-income and immigrant growers.
Revenue
$6.9m
Assets
$42.0m
Employees
39
EIN
94-3332630
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

The UC Santa Cruz Foundation raises private support, fosters innovation, and enhances student success, teaching excellence, and impactful research for the university.
Revenue
$25.5m
Assets
$193.6m
Employees
0
EIN
23-7394590
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Applied Survey Research

APPLIED SURVEY RESEARCH IS A NONPROFIT SOCIAL RESEARCH FIRM DEDICATED TO HELPING PEOPLE BUILD STRONGER SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITIES. WE HELP COMMUNITIES TO MEASURE AND IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.
Revenue
$4.2m
Assets
$867.1k
Employees
38
EIN
94-2711764
IRS type
501(c)(3)

BALANCE4Kids

The BALANCE organization will address the needs of children with severe disabilities in a collaborative model with private organizations, parents, and public schools working together.
Revenue
$2.5m
Assets
$1.0m
Employees
122
EIN
75-2994317
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Six Seconds

We support people to use emotional intelligence to create positive change. We research and disseminate best practices through assessment and learning tools with a global network of educators and trainers.
Revenue
$4.3m
Assets
$2.3m
Employees
12
EIN
94-3274972
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Tierra Pacifica Charter School

The mission is to create a collaborative learning environment among parents, teachers, and community members committed to the development of the whole child. To create a collaborative learning environment among parents, teachers, and community members.
Revenue
$2.3m
Assets
$2.3m
Employees
69
EIN
03-0507280
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Advaita Society-Mount Madonna School

A diverse accredited private school in Watsonville, CA providing excellent academics and positive character development to preschool, elementary, and secondary students.
Revenue
$4.9m
Assets
$3.6m
Employees
1
EIN
94-2693186
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Life Lab Science Program

Life Lab cultivates children's love of learning, healthy food, and nature through garden-based education as a national leader in the field.
Revenue
$2.4m
Assets
$1.5m
Employees
70
EIN
94-2778848
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Delta Charter School

Delta Charter School delivers human services to at-risk youth and families in Santa Cruz, CA through public schools and alternative sites.
Revenue
$1.7m
Assets
$2.3m
Employees
0
EIN
77-0384662
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B00: Education: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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