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This foundation is the community.
No paid staff, no national parent organization. The Escondido Education Foundation is neighbors, parents, retired educators, and local business owners who decided that Escondido classrooms deserved more than a public budget alone can provide.
How Escondido shows up
Three ways this town funds its own schools.
Every grant we award traces back to one of these. None of them require you to be wealthy, only to be here and to care.
Families
Parents and caregivers who volunteer in classrooms, support their school PTA, tell an educator that grant funding exists, and give what they can each year.
For parentsBusinesses and service clubs
Local employers, Rotary, Kiwanis, the Elks, and family foundations who underwrite grant cycles, sponsor events, match employee giving, and donate goods and services.
Partner with usVolunteers
The board and its committees are unpaid. People read grant applications, run events, and open doors, which is why so much of every dollar reaches a student.
Meet the boardWith thanks
The organizations behind this work.
Each of these has put real money or real goods behind Escondido classrooms. If your business belongs on this wall, we would like to talk.
See the work
Watch what the money actually does.
Educators who receive a grant report back, and we publish what they send. Rocket launches, hydroponic gardens, robotics kits, makerspaces, mural projects, and reading programs, written up by the people who ran them.
It is the least abstract way to understand a donation. You can read a teacher describing what forty students did with the money, in a school a few minutes from your house.
23 schools, one community
Fund a classroom in the city you live in.
Every donation is tax deductible and lands within a few miles of your front door.