California · Nonprofit
ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC
ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $65k
What Albertus Magnus Institute Inc does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of the Albertus Magnus Institute Inc. is to provide affordable access to classical liberal arts education through on-line classes lectures presentations and by other means.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Magnus Fellowship - Magnus Fellowship including Magnus Course Archive and Magnus Articles - In Aug 2024-July 2025 we administered 12 live on-line tutorial courses in literature logic rhetoric poetry philosophy politics and Ancient Greek serving 300 student Fellows free of charge. 18-30 participants met weekly for 1.5-3 hours over 8-weeks to discuss great books with volunteer Senior Fellows PhD or equivalent. Through the Magnus Course Archive 137 Fellows accessed over 1200 hours of recorded collegiate level classical liberal arts courses. All digital architecture for our on-line campus was maintained updated and expanded. We grew Magnus Articles with 15 short essays on topics of literature philosophy politics mathematics history and education.
$0 spentMagnus Podcast - In Aug 2024-July 2025 we produced 14 new podcast episodes of 45 minutes to 1.5 hours in length. Magnus Podcast episodes included interviews with leaders from classical liberal arts organizations on-line symposia and excerpted portions of Magnus Fellowship courses. Through 12 distribution channels Magnus Podcast garnered 6500 unique downloads from 57 countries.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $32k to $65k (+103%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
John Johnson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $10k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 86% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC?
- ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($65,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $171,000 in grants to ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTUS MAGNUS INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing