· Public charity
University Corporation at Monterey Bay
To use fiscal flexibility to provide resources and services not supported by the state, operational expertise to implement and manage commercial activities and entrepreneurial acumen to generate revenue in support of the university's strategic initiatives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $11,965,580 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,105,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,140,142 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $715k
- $250k+5 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY | $9,707,709 |
| UC REGENTS DAVIS | $397,615 |
| FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY | $360,000 |
| RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $334,448 |
| HARTNELL COLLEGE | $264,522 |
| OPEN ET | $186,677 |
| UC SANTA CRUZ | $149,864 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY | $124,847 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA | $112,954 |
| MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE | $84,290 |
| CSU CHANNEL ISLAND | $56,304 |
| BIG SUR LAND TRUST | $45,740 |
| EVAPOTRANSPIRATION PLUS LLC | $32,360 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $23,152 |
| CSU FULLERTON ASC | $19,043 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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 +42% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- FOFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +453% · 37% of their budget
- CPCAL POLY CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +71%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACYone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -2%
- ACAction Council of Monterey County Incone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -33%
- SUSALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $42k
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.
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…
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…
To provide and augment programs that are an integral part of the educational mission of the university, primarily in the acquisition, investment and administration of gifts and endowments for the benefit of the university.
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
The california state university san marcos, corporation is a non-profit tax exempt organization established to provide administrative and other business services to california state university san marcos.services include the administration…
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…
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
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…
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.…
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
Is a strategic partner, committed to delivering essential services and resources that enrich the quality of life for university students, providing sustainable institutional support that advances student success, and promoting the academic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University Long Beach Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Educational Results Partnership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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
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 OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPENET INC ↗
- Who funds CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Panetta Institute for Public Policy ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Action Council of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds Educational Results Partnership ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Northern California ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Chico State Enterprises ↗
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: Foundation for California Community Colleges · American Chemical Society · California Humanities · University of Southern California · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Esb Charitable Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay · California Institute for Biodiversity
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 University Corporation at Monterey Bay 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.
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.