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Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

$47M
Granted FY2025still arriving
431
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$63MEmployment$28MHealth$9.8MArts & Culture$8.5MHousing & Shelter$6.0MHuman Services$5.5MInternational$4.7MCommunity Improvement$3.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 431 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $210k
  • $10k–50k220 grants · $5.1M
  • $50k–250k125 grants · $15M
  • $250k+60 grants · $26M
$35,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$319M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUTTE-GLENN CCD$1,941,638
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$865,557
NORTH CENTRAL COUNTY CONSORTIUM$849,717
SHASTA-TEHAMA-TRINITY JNT CCD$801,589
BUTTE-GLENN CCD$692,025
LAKE TAHOE CCD$683,237
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD OF TULARE COUNTY$626,081
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED$617,122
COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA$604,033
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$589,855
CHICO STATE ENTERPRISES$574,392
RIVERSIDE COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DIVISION$520,740
MARIN CCD$513,294
RUBICON PROGRAMS INC$493,241
STANISLAUS COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT$489,776
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 (FY22–25, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $531k → 10%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC: $141k → 18%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $278k → 12%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $239k → 12%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $317k → 10%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $157k → 12%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $42k → 12%ABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $289k → 9%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $223k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $150k → 10%DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $54k → 11%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $412k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $306k → 10%CHILDREN'S FUND INCORPORATED: $20k → 14%PATHWAY FROM BOYS TO MEN INC: $20k → 14%ST JOHNS PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $98k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $440k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $202k → 12%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $480k → 11%SAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $120k → 11%HOPE OPPORTUNITY PURPOSE EMPOWERMENT CULTURE INC: $20k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $590k → 14%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $240k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $60k → 11%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $150k → 14%NILE SISTERS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $217k → 11%NILE SISTERS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $60k → 11%NILE SISTERS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $23k → 11%PCS FAMILY SERVICES INC: $265k → 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

NY
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
AZ
DC
HI
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134M · 264 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

264 repeat relationships: 225 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

264
27

Total granted

$134M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

59%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RP
    RUBICON PROGRAMS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +29%
  • GC
    Glendale College Foundation
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +162%
  • OJ
    OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +126% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT
    one grant, 2024 · $288k
  • VW
    VERDUGO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD
    one grant, 2022 · $194k
  • SJ
    SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD
    one grant, 2022 · $158k
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
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
2
Coast Community College District Foundation

The Coast Community College District Foundation was incorporated with the express purpose of promoting and assisting the education programs and projects of the Coast Community College District. The Coast Community District Foundation…

Education
3
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
4
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges Education Institute

The association was formed to do research and analyses and the dissemination of information to and the ongoing education and professional development of california community college faculty.

Education
5
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
6
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
9
College Futures Foundation
Public Benefit
10
El Paso Community College Foundation

The foundation was formed to receive gifts and to invest, manage and distribute such gifts for the benefit of the el paso community college and its students. the foundation promotes education and other related activities of the college.

Education
11
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

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12
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Medanos College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Teamsters Local 1932 Training Center. 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

203 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 203 of the 354 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
201/203
Grantees still filing
147/203
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUTTE-GLENN CCD: $5,445,050 · OtherBUTTE-GLENN CCDSCCCD: $4,129,110 · OtherINQUIRY & IMPROVEMENT SERVICES LLC: $3,444,849 · OtherRUBICON PROGRAMS INC: $3,351,816 · Other+114 more: $70,613,750 · Other+114 moreGlendale College Foundation: $1,893,431 · EducationGlendale College F…Chico State Enterprises: $1,260,818 · EducationChico State Enterp…LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,161,590 · EducationLOS ANGELES CITY C…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $1,018,746 · EducationPasadena City College Foundation: $1,017,362 · EducationChaffey College Foundation: $762,450 · EducationModesto Junior College Foundation: $758,245 · Education+36 more: $13,701,850 · Education+36 moreiFoster Inc: $977,392 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $753,350 · Human ServicesEL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $750,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $749,766 · Human ServicesECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $726,206 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $717,836 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $689,380 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $600,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $531,127 · Human ServicesNile Sisters Development Initiative: $300,000 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries: $300,000 · Human ServicesA B L E COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $288,940 · Human Services+3 more: $751,528 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC: $1,816,217 · EmploymentFRESNO AREA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $949,008 · EmploymentCLIMB HIRE INC: $749,794 · EmploymentSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $739,006 · EmploymentUNITE-LA INC: $720,000 · EmploymentGoodwill of The San Francisco Bay: $686,713 · EmploymentHOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND: $401,828 · EmploymentWOMEN IN NON TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT ROLES: $300,000 · EmploymentTransCanWork Inc: $300,000 · EmploymentTEAMSTERS LOCAL 1932 TRAINING CENTER: $298,254 · EmploymentMAKE PROJECTS: $294,395 · Employment+2 more: $481,341 · EmploymentHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,233,879 · Housing & ShelterSTARTING OVER INC: $757,550 · Housing & ShelterREADY TO WORK: $750,000 · Housing & ShelterNPOWER INC: $742,500 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT: $739,696 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $717,857 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY CYCLES OF CALIFORNIA INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $213,500 · Community ImprovementREADING AND BEYOND: $632,831 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST INC: $434,764 · Youth DevelopmentDEV MISSION: $300,000 · Youth Development
Other$86,984,575Education$21,574,492Human Services$8,135,525Employment$7,736,556Housing & Shelter$2,741,429Community Improvement$2,713,553Youth Development$1,367,595

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 budgetRUBICON PROGRAMS INC: $3,351,816 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetGlendale College Foundation: $1,893,431 over 8y, 17% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC: $1,816,217 over 9y, 26% of budgetChico State Enterprises: $1,260,818 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,233,879 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,161,590 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $1,018,746 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation: $1,017,362 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetiFoster Inc: $977,392 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetFRESNO AREA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $949,008 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $823,866 over 9y, 11% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $821,260 over 9y, 16% of budgetChaffey College Foundation: $762,450 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetModesto Junior College Foundation: $758,245 over 9y, 10% of budgetSTARTING OVER INC: $757,550 over 3y, 13% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $753,350 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFARMWORKERS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: $750,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER: $750,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $750,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCLIMB HIRE INC: $749,794 over 3y, 20% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $749,766 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNPOWER INC: $742,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $740,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC ASIAN CONSORTIUM IN EMPLOYMENT: $739,696 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $739,006 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPRC: $730,607 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $726,206 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE-LA INC: $720,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC: $717,857 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $717,836 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCollege of the Sequoias Foundation: $703,716 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $690,568 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $689,380 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGoodwill of The San Francisco Bay: $686,713 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $684,048 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $682,233 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC: $680,276 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $647,645 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetREADING AND BEYOND: $632,831 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $625,284 over 8y, 18% of budgetColumbia College Foundation: $612,900 over 9y, 30% of budgetBUTTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $610,576 over 9y, 18% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES: $600,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPalo Verde College Foundation: $586,349 over 9y, 66% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $562,066 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetLos Rios Colleges Foundation: $548,133 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $545,678 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetSTEP INTO A JOB: $540,650 over 3y, 54% 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.

  • Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Glendale College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds iFoster Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRESNO AREA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST HILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chaffey College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Modesto Junior College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STARTING OVER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗

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.

John Burton Advocates…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Community InitiativesCollege Futures Found…Truth Initiative Foun…Jobs for the Future I…The James Irvine Foun…The California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…Tipping Point Communi…California HumanitiesThe California Wellne…
John Burton Advocates for YouthCA110.8× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John Burton Advocates for Youth · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Initiatives · College Futures Foundation · Truth Initiative Foundation · Jobs for the Future Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · California Humanities · The California Wellness 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 Foundation for California Community Colleges funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for California Community Colleges. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
36report 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 354 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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The unnamed billions
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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