· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $682k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,250,649 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,030,671 |
| CSU LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $937,163 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE | $697,163 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY | $672,251 |
| SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT DBA CUESTA COMMUNITY COL | $445,605 |
| MIRIAM MEDICAL HOSPITAL | $326,563 |
| UPPER SALINAS-LAS TABLAS RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $305,098 |
| CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES | $246,593 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE | $149,038 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | $141,771 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $124,959 |
| IGNITED | $106,586 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $96,370 |
| EMMA PENDLETON BRADLEY HOSPITAL | $81,519 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Miriam Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +72%- CSChico State Enterprises8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +138%
- NYNew York University2× · 2019–2020 · $443k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TTYVAKone grant, 2017 · $455k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEone grant, 2024 · $156k
- PRPIPELINE RESEARCH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $116k · revenue +25%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cal Poly Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cal Poly Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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