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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.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9.7M
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$76MEnvironment$738kPublic Benefit$160kCommunity Improvement$91kCrime & Legal$61kFood & Nutrition$33kInternational$30kReligion$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $11,965,580, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,105,722 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,140,142 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $715k
  • $250k+5 grants · $11M
$56,304
Median grant
6
States reached
$220M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%CSU CHANNEL ISLAND: $190k → 10%UC RIVERSIDE: $113k → 11%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $453k → 12%EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $273k → 14%UC SANTA BARBARA: $150k → 14%CSU FRESNO: $119k → 19%SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $123k → 8%CSU CHANNEL ISLAND: $140k → 10%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $370k → 12%EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $205k → 14%UC SANTA BARBARA: $113k → 14%OPEN ET: $187k → 13%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $367k → 12%EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $168k → 14%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $327k → 12%CAL POLY CORPORATION: $289k → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $14.5M → 12%UC SANTA CRUZ: $166k → 13%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $9.7M → 12%UC SANTA CRUZ: $150k → 13%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $9.4M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $5.3M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $5.3M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $5.0M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $4.4M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $3.8M → 12%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $3.2M → 12%CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $274k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $1.2M → 12%CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $252k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $1.1M → 12%CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $247k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $678k → 12%CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $372k → 12%CSU DOMINGUEZ HILLS FOUNDATION: $185k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $360k → 12%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $254k → 12%FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $151k → 12%RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $334k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $570k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $476k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $331k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $265k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $242k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $184k → 12%HARTNELL COLLEGE: $144k → 12%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

ID
MN
IL
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
NC
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 32 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
12

Total granted

$77M
$333k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
EducationEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +453% · 37% of their budget
  • CP
    CAL POLY CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +71%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY
    one grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue -2%
  • AC
    Action Council of Monterey County Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -33%
  • SU
    SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
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
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
2
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
3
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

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…

Education
4
California Polytechnic State University Foundation

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.

Education
5
Claremont Graduate University

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…

Education
6
California State University San Marcos Corporation

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…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

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10
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc

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…

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
12
Santos Manuel Student Union of Csusb

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University Long Beach Research Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $60,660,563 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY+28 more: $8,420,166 · Other+28 moreFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $4,251,538 · EducationFOUNDATION …CAL POLY CORPORATION: $1,805,908 · EducationCAL POLY CO…SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $386,227 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $254,759 · Education+9 more: $884,326 · Education+9 moreOPENET INC: $235,516 · EnvironmentBig Sur Land Trust: $70,210 · EnvironmentAction Council of Monterey County Inc: $60,286 · PhilanthropyJunior Achievement of Northern California: $30,000 · International
Other$69,080,729Education$7,582,758Environment$305,726Philanthropy$60,286International$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY: $4,251,538 over 9y, 37% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $1,805,908 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $1,221,424 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $386,227 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $254,759 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $244,769 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPENET INC: $235,516 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION: $177,372 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy: $160,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $143,659 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $96,376 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $70,210 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $62,790 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $61,019 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAction Council of Monterey County Inc: $60,286 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEducational Results Partnership: $35,112 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMONMOUTH COLLEGE: $27,729 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChico State Enterprises: $22,966 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Benito Health Foundation: $11,467 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,929 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Foundation for Califo…American Chemical Soc…California HumanitiesUniversity of Souther…The California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…Association of Univer…Howard Hughes Medical…Esb Charitable Founda…The California Wellne…Foundation of Califor…California Institute …
Foundation for California Community CollegesCA25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 University Corporation at Monterey Bay funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Corporation at Monterey Bay. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 46 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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