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California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full potential.

$260k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$259,750
Largest grant, FY2025
$259,750
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$465kEmployment$44kCommunity Improvement$32k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Education Trust Inc$464,75021%
California State University Sacramento$43,7211n/a
Shasta College Community Leadership center holding corporation$32,352117%

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About California Competes

How much does California Competes give?
California Competes reported 1 grants totaling $259,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does California Competes fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Employment (8%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are California Competes's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Education Trust Inc ($465k), California State University Sacramento ($44k), Shasta College Community Leadership center holding corporation ($32k).
Where is California Competes based?
California Competes is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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