· Private foundation
Minerva Club Trust Fund Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAL POLY | $2,400 |
| ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE | $2,400 |
| UCLA | $2,400 |
| UC DAVIS | $2,400 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ | $1,200 |
| CAL STATE UNIVERSITY-LONG BEACH | $1,200 |
| CAL LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA | $1,200 |
| CAL BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $14k
- CPCAL POLY CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +81%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA3× · 2020–2022 · $8k
Funded once
- CCCSU CHANNEL ISLANDSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
San Diego Christian College exists to educate and inspire students through the truth of scripture and the development of competencies that prepare graduates whose purpose is to impact the world.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Minerva Club Trust Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minerva Club Trust Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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