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Financials At A Glance

In Fiscal Year 2022

We Raised

$19.3 million

We Invested

$12.4 million in operating expenses

We Supported

575 Wave-Makers

in college with an average scholarship amount of

$3,300 per student

and one-to-one coaching and financial coaching valued at

$4,700 per student

TOTAL ASSETS

$245 million

This primarily represents Making Waves Academy’s campus and the Foundation’s office

Allocation of Expenses

Pie chart with allocation of expenses - 2% fundraising in dark blue, 17% management/administrative in orange, and 81% program services in light blue
Note: FY22 figures are unaudited

More Information

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 500 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 600 college graduates, who earn their degrees and land jobs at more than twice the rate of their first-generation, low-income peers, with 84% graduating debt-free.

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