· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $654k
- $50k–250k53 grants · $7.0M
- $250k+26 grants · $8.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RP GROUP INC | $600,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $550,000 |
| CALMATTERS | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $469,000 |
| SOVA SOLUTIONS | $407,000 |
| ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY & JUNIOR COLLEGES | $400,000 |
| PUBLIC AGENDA | $365,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $350,000 |
| CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION | $334,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY | $325,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION | $325,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $317,500 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $912k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
166 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +244%
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +73%
CalMatters5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +157%
Funded once
- MAMISSION ASSET FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1.4M · revenue -77%
- BCBOSTON CONSULTING GROUPone grant, 2022 · $450k
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for California Community Colleges and the most unlike its peers is Avalos Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
240 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 240 of the 329 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds GROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE RP GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ASSET FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Institute for College Access & Success ↗
- Who funds OPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE-LA INC ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization College Futures Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- African American Collections Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.