CICustom Imageimprint trade school
Support

Fund a maker.

Custom Image is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Your gift is tax-deductible and goes straight to keeping training within reach — materials, safety gear, credentials, and seats for learners who can’t pay.

Ways to give

Every gift puts someone to work.

Sponsor a seat
Cover a learner’s place in a cohort — instruction, materials, and credentials included.
Equipment & materials
Fund presses, supplies, inks, and safety gear that keep the shop running.
Safety & credentials
Fund the OSHA-10, silica, and industry credentials every student earns and carries out the door.
Choose an amount
Direct my gift (optional)

Secure checkout by Stripe, right here on this page — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link. Custom Image is a 501(c)(3); your gift is tax-deductible and you’ll receive an emailed receipt. Directing your gift is a recommendation to the school.

Tax status
501(c)(3) public charity — contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
EIN
32-0815310
Receipts
Every.org emails an itemized tax receipt automatically the moment your gift is processed.
Custom Image is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 32-0815310). No goods or services are provided in exchange for contributions unless stated. Consult your tax advisor regarding deductibility.
Major gifts

Fund a trajectory, not a line item.

A gift at scale here doesn’t buy supplies — it buys a person a trade. And a trade is a career that compounds for the rest of a life, and often their children’s. In South Los Angeles, that’s the difference between a job that ends and a skill that travels anywhere.

Carry someone the whole way and you cover tuition, materials, safety gear, industry credentials, and a supervised placement with a real employer — about $19,500, start to finish. Underwrite a class and you change a cohort at a time. Put your name on a program and it stands for the students who come next.

Sponsor a full seat
One learner, all the way through — ~$19,500 covers tuition, materials, credentials, and placement.
Underwrite a cohort
Fund a whole class in a trade — the highest-leverage gift we offer. We’ll scope it with you.
Name a program
A multi-year commitment that puts your name, or your foundation’s, on a trade for good.

Foundations, employers, and individual donors — if you’re thinking at this scale, we’d rather build it with you than route it through a form.

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ACS
WASC
Accredited
Accreditation

Custom Image is Accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACS WASC) as a Supplementary Education Center/Program (adult). Initial Accreditation Status through June 30, 2029.

Programs covered: Screen Printing, Embroidery, Sublimation, Signs & Banners, Awards, Sandblasting, and Generative AI Design.

Accrediting Commission for Schools · Western Association of Schools and Colleges · 533 Airport Blvd., Suite 200, Burlingame, CA 94010 · www.acswasc.org