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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 FY2024still arriving
181
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $654k
  • $50k–250k53 grants · $7.0M
  • $250k+26 grants · $8.9M
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$562M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RP GROUP INC$600,000
FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES$550,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES$500,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION$500,000
CALMATTERS$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
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION$325,000
CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY$325,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$317,500
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER: $700 → 14%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $500 → 13%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $200 → 13%LOST N FOUND YOUTH: $200 → 13%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $200 → 9%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $55k → 9%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANTS RISING: $125k → 10%SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANTS RISING: $3k → 10%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $150k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $40k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $3k → 14%COLEMAN ADVOCATES: $231k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES: $88k → 10%CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $2k → 14%CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $150k → 14%CONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $40k → 14%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $500 → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $2k → 10%CAMP KESEM: $400 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 166 repeat orgs$8.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

166
107

Total granted

$75M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

72%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +244%
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +73%
  • CalMatters
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +232%

Funded once

  • MA
    MISSION ASSET FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M · revenue -77%
  • BC
    BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue +16%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
University of California Student Association

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…

Education
4
California State Student Association

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.

Education
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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7
California Institute of Integral Studies

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…

Education
8
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
9
The California Channel

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…

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10
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Pitzer College

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.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for California Community Colleges; 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.
04the grantee network

240 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. 240 of the 329 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
238/240
Grantees still filing
168/240
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $11,124,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGESCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $2,747,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATIONGROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENT: $2,530,446 · EducationGROWING INLAND ACHIEVEMENTTHE RP GROUP INC: $2,475,000 · EducationTHE RP GROUP INCCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY: $1,845,000 · EducationThe Education Trust Inc: $1,727,500 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,603,000 · EducationEDSOURCE INC: $1,487,500 · Education+57 more: $17,310,700 · Education+57 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $2,581,905 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $1,220,500 · OtherPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC: $1,055,000 · OtherSTATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $1,044,864 · OtherSOVA SOLUTIONS LLC: $937,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,010,000 · Other+91 more: $16,996,983 · Other+91 moreCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $1,203,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,072,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY I…RISE EDUCATION FUND: $795,000 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCAT…CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $640,000 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE F…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $638,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …Stanislaus Community Foundation: $574,000 · PhilanthropyStanislaus …CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $523,000 · PhilanthropyCSUSB PHILA…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $396,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $382,250 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $325,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $574,445 · Philanthropy+9 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,499,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ASSET FUND: $1,431,275 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $893,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $492,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $190,300 · Community Improvement+2 more: $175,000 · Community ImprovementJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $2,180,000 · EmploymentUNITE-LA INC: $655,000 · Employment+1 more: $50,000 · EmploymentCalMatters: $2,700,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $49,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC: $700,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $76,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$42,851,146Other$24,846,252Philanthropy$9,373,195Community Improvement$5,681,075Employment$2,885,000Civil Rights$2,749,500Arts & Culture$1,776,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,290,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $1,220,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $1,203,000 over 5y, 1.4% 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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $893,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $638,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetStanislaus Community Foundation: $574,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth: $568,333 over 5y, 11% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMPETES: $560,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budget
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.

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 Foun…The California Endowm…Ecmc FoundationThe California Wellne…Evelyn and Walter Haa…East Bay Community Fo…Foundation for Califo…Crankstart FoundationWeingart FoundationStupski FoundationGates FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization College Futures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from College Futures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home