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Sonoma State University Foundation

The foundation's principal mission is to receive and administer endowment gifts and planned giving that enhance and promote sonoma state university's educational mission. The activities of the foundation are directed by a board of community, student, faculty and administrative representatives. The foundation is a california state…

$4.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,295,834
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,295,834
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$80M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sonoma State University Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving1$4.3M0%
FY20241$3.7M0%
FY20231$5.0M0%
FY20225$3.6M0%
FY20214$2.9M0%
FY20205$4.0M0%
FY20191$2.7M0%
FY20185$3.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$30MYouth Development$154kHuman Services$134k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sonoma State University$29,731,8418n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$77,23140%
Hanna Boys Center$77,2314n/a
The Zones$77,23143%
Sonoma County Family YMCA$56,44530%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sonoma State University Foundation

How much does Sonoma State University Foundation give?
Sonoma State University Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $4,295,834 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sonoma State University Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Youth Development (1%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Sonoma State University Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sonoma State University ($30M), Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ($77k), Hanna Boys Center ($77k).
Does Sonoma State University Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sonoma State University Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Sonoma State University Foundation based?
Sonoma State University 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 5 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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