California · Nonprofit
ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,565 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($235,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $524k
- Net assets
- $56M
What Alliant Educational Foundation does
Mission
The Alliant Educational Foundation builds bridges between under-resourced communities, universities, and other organizations to create a more equitable, healthy, and just society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Aiu scholarships: aef partners with alliant international university (aiu) to fund scholarships and tuition support, benefiting over 500 students across the seven campuses and schools within the alliant educational system. Aef also manages private endowment funds that generate additional revenue for scholarships and programs for aiu students.
$1,030,542 spentof which $776,980 as grants$2,710,968 earned by the program63% of program spendingAef fellows program: this program provides support for students across california who are pursuing phd and psyd degrees in clinical psychology. Selected based on referrals from faculty, a majority of aef fellows share a deep commitment to social justice and community impact, have high gpas and a financial need. Some are the first in their families to attend college or graduate school. This program is designed to support up to 100 students with multi-year scholarships, peer connections, mentorship, and more.
$324,440 spentof which $281,545 as grants20% of program spendingMental health consortium: this program helps place practicum students from alliant's california school of professional psychology (cspp) into non-profit sites that have identified the need for children's mental health support. The foundation aims to build more bridges between alliant/cspp and these new non-profit entities and help fund the clinical supervision needed for these graduate students.
$213,724 spent13% of program spendingOther program activities: aef provides oversight and administration of select government grants and contracts designed to promote and enhance academic research by aiu faculty. Aef also manages several additional projects and programs including a policing and mental health initiative, aiu student food and shelter emergency fund, innovation seed grant program, and other program investments aligned with its mission.
$56,519 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,625,225.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $58M to $49M (−17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 64% · 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
M Valin Brown
CEO
Board chair
Ron Longinotti
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $65k → $95k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Alliant Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’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
ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 83% · 2022 73% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,565 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($235,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $523,565 in grants to ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing