How much does Cal Poly Corporation give?

Cal Poly Corporation reported 49 itemized grants totaling $8,792,496, out of $19,283,175 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Cal Poly Corporation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Health (6%), Science & Tech (4%).

Who are Cal Poly Corporation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cal Poly Humboldt ($45M), California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($5.0M), The Miriam Hospital ($3.0M).

Does Cal Poly Corporation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cal Poly Corporation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for California Community Colleges, University of Pittsburgh, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Where is Cal Poly Corporation based?

Cal Poly Corporation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Cal Poly Corporation

To provide the university with certain services and facilities which are an integral part of the educational program of the university.

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 49
Itemized grants FY2025: 46
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $8.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $47,792
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,250,649
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 46; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 17
Total assets, FY2025: $427M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Cal Poly Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthSocial ScienceArts & CultureAnimalsScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	48	$8.8M	17%
FY2024	46	$12M	28%
FY2023	37	$14M	49%
FY2022	26	$5.0M	15%
FY2021	28	$6.4M	32%
FY2020	27	$5.6M	48%
FY2019	19	$7.6M	37%
FY2018	18	$7.3M	33%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$60MHealth$4.1MScience & Tech$2.9MFood & Nutrition$2.1MArts & Culture$716kSocial Science$707kEnvironment$620kPublic Benefit$221kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cal Poly Humboldt	$44,962,529	9	n/a
California Polytechnic State University Foundation	$5,017,560	9	2%
The Miriam Hospital	$2,951,477	9	0%
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation	$2,148,108	2	2%
Allan Hancock College	$1,965,459	6	n/a
San Luis Community College District - Cuesta College	$1,923,920	6	n/a
Chico State Enterprises	$1,624,167	8	1%
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	$581,940	6	0%
Tyvak	$455,024	1	n/a
Nc State University	$444,400	3	n/a

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All grantees of Cal Poly Corporation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cal Poly Humboldt	$44,962,529	9	n/a
California Polytechnic State University Foundation	$5,017,560	9	2%
The Miriam Hospital	$2,951,477	9	0%
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation	$2,148,108	2	2%
Allan Hancock College	$1,965,459	6	n/a
San Luis Community College District - Cuesta College	$1,923,920	6	n/a
Chico State Enterprises	$1,624,167	8	1%
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	$581,940	6	0%
Tyvak	$455,024	1	n/a
Nc State University	$444,400	3	n/a
New York University	$442,877	2	0%
California Strawberry Commission	$403,588	3	n/a
Paso Robles Joint Unified School District	$403,141	4	n/a
Guadalupe Union School District	$396,160	5	n/a
Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Dist	$379,131	2	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$296,948	6	n/a
Arroyo Grande High School	$230,775	3	n/a
The Coleridge Initiative Inc	$221,174	2	3%
Oregon Health & Science University	$219,866	9	n/a
Westfield State University	$219,034	5	n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	$196,058	2	n/a
Oregon State University	$189,814	4	n/a
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital	$173,118	3	0%
Trustees of Tufts College	$171,859	4	0%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$156,490	1	n/a
Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education	$149,998	2	9%
Southern University-Baton Rouge	$149,038	1	n/a
Kansas State University	$147,214	3	n/a
University of California Davis	$145,947	2	n/a
Wakish Pllc	$145,675	6	n/a
Arizona State University	$139,996	3	n/a
Educopia Institute Inc	$139,840	4	4%
California State University Fresno Foundation	$136,230	3	0%
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$132,643	2	0%
Parkview Hospital Inc	$131,116	3	0%
Quansight LLC	$125,527	3	n/a
The Marine Mammal Center	$125,382	4	0%
Era Economics	$124,800	3	n/a
University of California Santa Barbara	$123,732	3	n/a
Iowa State University	$120,855	4	n/a
University of Miami	$118,795	2	0%
Board of the University of Alabama	$117,800	3	n/a
Pipeline Research Council International Inc	$115,655	1	1%
Northwest Kern Rcd	$108,117	2	n/a
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc	$107,621	2	0%
Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced)	$94,878	2	n/a
Texas A&M University	$93,661	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$91,292	2	n/a
Montana State University	$91,257	2	n/a
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc	$89,120	3	0%
Collins Educational Foundation	$85,630	2	n/a
Resource Conservation District of Tehama County	$81,684	2	n/a
Superior Statistical Research	$80,338	1	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$75,000	3	n/a
Digitalglobe	$75,000	1	n/a
Mississippi State University	$73,819	3	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$68,000	2	n/a
Sonoma State University	$67,156	3	n/a
San Luis Coastal Unified School District	$65,680	2	n/a
Heritage University	$63,306	3	0%
Santa Maria Joint Union High School District	$62,475	3	n/a
Nazareth University	$51,219	3	0%
Sri International	$50,689	2	0%
Portland State University	$49,999	3	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$49,969	1	n/a
University of Arkansas Fayetteville	$46,918	4	n/a
California State University Stanislaus	$45,562	1	n/a
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc	$45,085	3	0%
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$44,831	2	n/a
Coastal Oceans LLC	$44,300	2	n/a
California State University	$43,510	4	n/a
The University of Tennessee	$43,234	2	n/a
Michigan State University	$40,397	2	n/a
Oklahoma State University	$40,145	1	n/a
Santa Maria Bonita School District	$36,930	2	n/a
Clemson University	$34,402	2	n/a
University of Pittsburgh	$29,944	1	0%
Cornell University	$28,836	2	0%
University Enterprises Inc	$28,670	1	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$25,681	1	n/a
Elevate Learning LLC	$25,400	1	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	$24,734	2	n/a
Hartnell College	$24,663	2	n/a
Rhode Island Hospital	$24,451	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$22,500	1	n/a
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation	$19,071	1	0%
University of Texas	$18,485	1	n/a
The Council on Undergraduate Research	$18,322	2	1%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$15,845	1	n/a
University of Florida	$13,655	2	n/a
San Francisco State University	$11,218	1	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$10,575	1	n/a
University of Hawaii System	$10,087	1	n/a
Bay Foundation of Morro Bay	$10,048	1	1%
Friends of Hawaiis Urban Forest	$10,000	1	5%
Packaging Forensics Assoc Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Rise San Luis Obispo County	$5,869	1	0%
The University Corporation	$5,294	1	0%
Electricoreinc	$5,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cal Poly Corporation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for California Community CollegesCA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for California Community Colleges · University of Pittsburgh · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · American Council of Learned Societies · Community Initiatives · Northwestern University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cal Poly Corporation

How much does Cal Poly Corporation give?: Cal Poly Corporation reported 49 itemized grants totaling $8,792,496, out of $19,283,175 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cal Poly Corporation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Health (6%), Science & Tech (4%).
Who are Cal Poly Corporation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cal Poly Humboldt ($45M), California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($5.0M), The Miriam Hospital ($3.0M).
Does Cal Poly Corporation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cal Poly Corporation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for California Community Colleges, University of Pittsburgh, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Where is Cal Poly Corporation based?: Cal Poly Corporation is based in CA.