California · Nonprofit
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,652,559 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,030,425). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation does
Mission
See schedule othe Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation provides expertise, fiduciary oversight and advocacy to increase charitable giving and manage the endowment and other charitable funds. The foundation serves humboldt state university in several ways: 1. Steward assets - ensure that contributions are well invested and used as donors intend.2. Deploy assets - ensure that contributed funds are efficiently distributed and productively used by the university. 3. Raise new assets - engage in the fundraising process in order to increase amount and quality of charitable contributions to the university. 4. Strategic alignment - be familiar with the strategies and directions of the university and provide commentary and feedback to university leadership. 5. Advocacy - serve as spokesperson and ambassadors for the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Services include forwarding earnings to 189 scholarship funds and 76 campus programs in compliance with endowment restrictions; administering 355 charitable accounts dedicated to university purposes; and managing 291 endowed and 1 non-endowed investment accounts.
$14,422,545 spentof which $12,188,296 as grants$1,611,740 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,422,545.
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 2020 to 2021, from $40M to $53M (+33%).
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.
58% of CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jack Mcgurk
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $149k → $940k.
17 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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: $153k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 43% · 2019 53% · 2020 27% · 2021 59% · 2022 49% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
75% of CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CAL POLY HUMBOLDT 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
94% 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 22 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- California State Polytechnic University Humboldt · exempt
- Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation · exempt
- Humboldt State University Center · exempt
- Associated Students of Cal Poly Humboldt · exempt
- Cal Poly Humboldt Real Estate Holdings · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION: 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 CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION?
- CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,652,559 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,030,425). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $5,652,559 in grants to CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,030,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAL POLY HUMBOLDT 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 45 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