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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,350 to it, the largest being Ernst & Young Foundation ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$23M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$38k
Grants received
$50M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Against its field

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 109 ($16M) Expenses 112 ($13M) Net assets 139 ($15M)2019 Revenue 117 ($18M) Expenses 132 ($15M) Net assets 147 ($16M)2020 Revenue 128 ($19M) Expenses 116 ($13M) Net assets 197 ($21M)2021 Revenue 120 ($18M) Expenses 94 ($11M) Net assets 260 ($28M)2022 Revenue 142 ($21M) Expenses 122 ($14M) Net assets 336 ($36M)2023 Revenue 139 ($21M) Expenses 156 ($18M) Net assets 377 ($41M)2024 Revenue 142 ($21M) Expenses 154 ($18M) Net assets 422 ($46M)2025 Revenue 151 ($23M) Expenses 148 ($17M) Net assets 465 ($50M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (151)Expenses (148)Net assets (465)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.5M
17
$3.6M
18
$2.3M
19
$5.8M
20
$7.2M
21
$7.3M
22
$3.0M
23
$3.7M
24
$5.7M
25
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $300.

Funder
'17
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)99% 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 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA’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

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100%broadly stable.

“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

99% of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA'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 $350 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 46%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • California State Polytechnic University Pomona · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA: 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 ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA?
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,350 to it, the largest being Ernst & Young Foundation ($38,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,350 in grants to ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA?
Ernst & Young Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATED STUDENTS INC CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV POMONA 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing