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College Futures Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
181
Grants FY2024
134
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
133 to 140
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$562M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations College Futures Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving130$16M31%
FY2023134$15M27%
FY2022140$20M31%
FY2021134$19M45%
FY2020133$15Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$58MCommunity Improvement$6.8MPhilanthropy$5.2MCivil Rights$4.9MEmployment$3.1MScience & Tech$2.4MYouth Development$2.2MSocial Science$2.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for California Community Colleges$11,124,50053%
California State University Fresno Foundation$2,747,50052%
CalMatters$2,700,00059%
University of California Davis$2,581,9055n/a
Growing Inland Achievement$2,530,446348%
Community Partners$2,499,00051%
The Rp Group Inc$2,475,000527%
California State University Foundation$2,250,000312%
Jobs for the Future Inc$2,180,00043%
Campaign for College Opportunity$1,845,000514%
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All grantees of College Futures Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for California Community Colleges$11,124,50053%
California State University Fresno Foundation$2,747,50052%
CalMatters$2,700,00059%
University of California Davis$2,581,9055n/a
Growing Inland Achievement$2,530,446348%
Community Partners$2,499,00051%
The Rp Group Inc$2,475,000527%
California State University Foundation$2,250,000312%
Jobs for the Future Inc$2,180,00043%
Campaign for College Opportunity$1,845,000514%
The Education Trust Inc$1,727,50052%
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation$1,603,00050%
Edsource Inc$1,487,500314%
Mission Asset Fund$1,431,27513%
Public Policy Institute of California$1,220,50052%
Community Initiatives$1,072,50041%
Public Advocates Inc$1,055,00045%
The Aspen Institute Inc$1,010,00050%
Southern California Public Radio$1,000,00041%
Sova Solutions LLC$937,0002n/a
University Enterprises Inc$877,00050%
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc$875,00041%
Rise Education Fund$795,000420%
The Institute for College Access & Success$750,00035%
California State University Northridge Foundation$700,00031%
Open Campus Media Inc$700,00039%
Onefuture Coachella Valley$700,000413%
Uaspire Inc$675,00034%
California State University San Marcos Corporation$675,00021%
Unite-La Inc$655,00053%
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation$640,00031%
East Los Angeles College Foundation$631,000314%
Engage R&D Inc$630,0002n/a
California State University Bakersfield Foundation$605,00054%
Community College League of California$601,00043%
Hartnell College Foundation$601,00043%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$598,0003n/a
John Burton Advocates for Youth$568,333511%
California Competes$560,000214%
California Coalition of Early & Middle Colleges$525,000371%
Csusb Philanthropic Foundation$523,00033%
Berkeley City College$500,0004n/a
American Association of Community Colleges$500,00012%
Alliance for a Better Community$492,500325%
National Community College Hispanic Council$475,000440%
Braven Inc$450,00031%
Institute for Evidence-Based Change$417,000313%
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges Wasc$405,00019%
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation$400,00011%
Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation$400,00026%
Teachers College Columbia University$375,00030%
GO Public Schools$373,000312%
Public Agenda Inc$365,000110%
California State University Stanislaus Foundation$341,000117%
California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Partners$334,00011%
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth$319,00026%
Kern Community College District$311,0003n/a
Chabot Las Positas Community College$300,0002n/a
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc$300,00012%
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc$300,00021%
BLU Educational Foundation$300,000119%
Compton Community College District$279,0002n/a
Wested$273,0002n/a
Tipping Point Community$250,00011%
Occidental College$250,00050%
Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation$250,00024%
Stem Advantage$225,000216%
Futuro Health$223,00011%
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges$210,00027%
Innercity Struggle$192,50032%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$190,30022%
Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas En Norte America$190,000220%
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement$190,00022%
University Corporation at Monterey Bay$169,00020%
Student Senate for California Community Colleges$150,00028%
Institute for Nonprofit News$150,00012%
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation$150,00010%
National Center for Civic Innovation In$150,00010%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$147,00040%
Immigrants Rising$128,0002n/a
Cabrillo Education Foundation$125,00059%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$120,00011%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside$105,0001n/a
Reading and Beyond$100,00021%
Avalos Foundation$92,5002n/a
San Joaquin Delta College$87,5001n/a
Scripps College$87,50030%
National College Attainment Network$87,05040%
Northern California Grantmakers$77,75050%
Families in Schools$75,00023%
University of Massachusetts Global$75,00030%
Claremont Graduate University$75,00030%
Improve Your Tomorrow Inc$70,00050%
California College of the Arts$65,00020%
Independent Sector$62,50050%
California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foundation$60,00012%
Hispanics in Philanthropy$58,75050%
10000 Degrees$57,50050%
The University Foundation at Sacramento State$57,50050%
Mexican Cultural Center of Northern California$56,000512%
California Forward$55,00031%
Lc and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope$55,00014%
Southern California Grantmakers$51,50050%
College Track$51,00050%
Western University of Health Sciences$50,00020%
Whittier College$50,00010%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$50,0002n/a
Career Nexus$50,00013%
Robla School District$40,0001n/a
Excelencia in Education Inc$40,00030%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$39,17050%
Mount Saint Mary's University$37,50020%
San Francisco Day School$35,00010%
San Jose State University Alumni Association$35,00046%
Foster Youth Education Fund$30,00029%
Sacramento Press Club$30,00039%
The Communications Network$28,00040%
Fresno Building Healthy Communities$25,00010%
Claremont McKenna College$25,00010%
California State University Channel Islands Foundation$25,00010%
Media Impact Funders Inc$20,00021%
The Foundation for Chabot-Las Positas Community College District$20,000197%
Southeast Community Development Corporation$20,00022%
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc$20,00010%
California State University San Marcos Foundation$15,00020%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$13,52550%
California Association of Nonprofits$10,00020%
BYP100 Education Fund$10,00010%
The Links Foundation Incorporated$10,00020%
Valley Humane SocietyInc$10,00010%
Ccf Community Initiatives Fund$10,00010%
Bakersfield College Foundation$10,00010%
Unidosus$10,00010%
Pleasanton SD$10,0001n/a
Kingmakers of Oakland$10,00010%
San Francisco CASA$9,50040%
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund$6,00010%
Franklin Elementary School PTA$5,22041%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$5,05050%
Sylvia Mendez School PTA$5,00014%
The University Foundation California State University Chico$5,00020%
Roberts Family Development Center$5,00010%
Linked Learning Alliance$5,00020%
EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation$5,00010%
Community College Baccalaureate Association Inc$5,00011%
American Assoc of Hispanics in Higher Education$5,00011%
International Child Resource Institute$4,60010%
Sierra Service Project$4,04550%
Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation Inc$3,50021%
Kqed Inc$2,67030%
Centro Legal de la Raza$2,40010%
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County$2,04610%
San Francisco AIDS Foundation$2,00010%
Children Now$2,00010%
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc$2,00010%
New School of Berkeley$2,00010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$1,90040%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$1,64040%
Kiddie Kampus Cooperative Play School Inc$1,62030%
Equality California Institute$1,60040%
Lynwood Partners Educational Foundation$1,53620%
Disabled Hikers$1,50012%
The Bayview Association for Youth$1,50012%
Global Glimpse$1,30010%
Pesticide Action Network North America$1,20010%
New Conservatory Theatre Center$1,19640%
The Whitney Institute$1,15010%
Meals on Wheels Contra Costa Inc$1,07010%
Community Reflections Inc$1,0001n/a
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network$1,00010%
African American Collections Inc$1,00014%
University of Central Ar Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation$91320%
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc$90020%
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music$85030%
Outward Bound California$80020%
Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation$70630%
Housing Assistance Corporation$70020%
YES Nature to Neighborhoods$70010%
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center$70010%
Yale New Haven Hospital$60630%
Urban Ed Academy$56020%
Peralta Colleges Foundation$53810%
Self-Help for the Elderly$50010%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc$50010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$50010%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$50010%
Homeless Youth Alliance$50010%
The Aurora Theatre Company$50010%
Sogorea Te Land Trust$45020%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$41030%
The Hasty Pudding - Institute of 1770 Inc$40720%
Enriching Lives Through Music$40010%
Camp Kesem National$40010%
Voteorg$40010%
Ferncliff Camp & Conference Center$40010%
Equal Justice Initiative$40010%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc$40010%
Building Futures Inc$4002n/a
Alameda Education Foundation$40020%
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano$30010%
Middle East Children's Alliance$30020%
Pomona College$29420%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$25020%
Berkeley Playhouse Inc$24010%
Live 4 Evan Inc$22010%
Point Foundation$21410%
Every Mother Counts$20510%
White Pony Express$20010%
International Rescue Committee INC$20010%
Women for Women International$20010%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$20010%
People for the American Way Foundation$20010%
Amateur Music Network$20010%
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$20010%
French Broad River Academy Inc$20010%
Thousand Currents$20010%
Earth Island Institute Inc$20010%
Love Live Local Inc$20010%
Mission Local SF Inc$20010%
Covia Foundation$20010%
Bay Area Urban Debate Commission$20010%
Mei Fong and Associates Aws$20010%
Mental Health Foundation$20010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$20010%
American River Conservancy$10610%
Phoebe a Hearst Elementary School PTO$10410%
Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter$10310%
Womens Cancer Resource Center$10010%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund$10010%
Csc Repertory Ltd D/B/A Classic Stage Company$10010%
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum$10010%
The Children's Health Fund$10010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$10010%
The Bail Project Inc$10010%
Berkeley Ballet Theater Inc$10010%
Metavivor Research and Support Inc$5010%
San Francisco Jazz Organization$4010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

College Futures Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation for California Community Colleges: $11,124,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Foundation: $2,747,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCalMatters: $2,700,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetGrowing Inland Achievement: $2,530,446 over 3y, 48% of budgetCommunity Partners: $2,499,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Rp Group Inc: $2,475,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCalifornia State University Foundation: $2,250,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJobs for the Future Inc: $2,180,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCampaign for College Opportunity: $1,845,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $1,727,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSan Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation: $1,603,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEdsource Inc: $1,487,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetMission Asset Fund: $1,431,275 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPublic Policy Institute of California: $1,220,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $1,072,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPublic Advocates Inc: $1,055,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $1,010,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern California Public Radio: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity Enterprises Inc: $877,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc: $875,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRise Education Fund: $795,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetThe Institute for College Access & Success: $750,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCalifornia State University Northridge Foundation: $700,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOpen Campus Media Inc: $700,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetOnefuture Coachella Valley: $700,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUaspire Inc: $675,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCalifornia State University San Marcos Corporation: $675,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUnite-La Inc: $655,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation: $640,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEast Los Angeles College Foundation: $631,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCalifornia State University Bakersfield Foundation: $605,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCommunity College League of California: $601,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHartnell College Foundation: $601,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $568,333 over 5y, 11% of budgetCalifornia Competes: $560,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCalifornia Coalition of Early & Middle Colleges: $525,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetCsusb Philanthropic Foundation: $523,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Association of Community Colleges: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAlliance for a Better Community: $492,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetNational Community College Hispanic Council: $475,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetBraven Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInstitute for Evidence-Based Change: $417,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAccrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges Wasc: $405,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCalifornia State University Long Beach Research Foundation: $400,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Education Foundation: $400,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGO Public Schools: $373,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPublic Agenda Inc: $365,000 over 1y, 10% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

The James Irvine FoundationCA90× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · Ecmc Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Crankstart Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Stupski Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Sobrato Family 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 College Futures Foundation

How much does College Futures Foundation give?
College Futures Foundation reported 181 grants totaling $16,683,989 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 133 and 140 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does College Futures Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (64%), Community Improvement (8%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are College Futures Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Foundation for California Community Colleges ($11M), California State University Fresno Foundation ($2.7M), CalMatters ($2.7M).
Does College Futures Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does College Futures Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as College Futures Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Irvine Foundation, The California Endowment, Ecmc Foundation.
Where is College Futures Foundation based?
College Futures Foundation 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 329 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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