Our Financials
We believe financial transparency and accountability are critical and want you to be assured that your donation is being put to the best possible use. If you don’t find what you’re looking for here, please send us an email at finance@making-waves.org and we’ll do our best to answer your questions.
Financials At A Glance
In Fiscal Year 2023
We Raised
$23.6 million
We Invested
$14.5 million in operating expenses and $9.1 million in construction costs
We Supported
515 Wave-Makers
in college with an average scholarship amount of
$3,900 per student
and one-to-one college, career, and financial coaching valued at
$5,300 per student
TOTAL ASSETS
$250.9 million
84% Real Estate Assets (e.g., Making Waves Academy’s campus and the Foundation’s office) and 16% Other Assets
Allocation of Expenses
Note: FY23 figures are unaudited
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Fiscal Year 2023
Fiscal Year 2022
Fiscal Year 2021
Fiscal Year 2020
ABOUT MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
At Making Waves, we are committed to educational equity. Making Waves Education Foundation is a Bay Area nonprofit that supports Making Waves Academy – a public charter school with more than 1,100 5th through 12th grade students – and leads college and career programming with more than 430 college students.
Knowing the opportunities that come with a college degree, we partner with historically underrepresented and underserved students to help make college affordable and graduation attainable. Centering the journeys of our students, our personalized approach includes college and career coaching, scholarships, and financial planning.
Our alumni network includes more than 730 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 85% graduating debt-free.
