California · Nonprofit
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,325,989 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($40,161,500). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $54M
- Net assets
- $237M
What Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation does
Mission
To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation (csfpf) is an auxiliary organization of california state university, fullerton (the university). Csfpf is organized and operated to receive, hold, invest, and administer philanthropic gifts and grants that benefit the university and support its educational mission. All philanthropic contributions supporting the university are processed and administered by csfpf in accordance with donor intent. These funds support student scholarships (including scholarships for first-generation students), academic and co-curricular programs, faculty support, and campus facilities. Csfpf will continue to advance philanthropic support for university priorities, including student access and success, programmatic initiatives, and capital projects such as landmark hall and the college of engineering and computer science innovation hub, as well as other high-priority initiatives in the coming year.
$14,610,271 spentof which $3,078,907 as grants$781,270 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,610,271.
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 $113M to $185M (+64%).
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.
71% of CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Kimberly Shiner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $909k → $1.9M.
26 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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: $2.1M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California State University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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 STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 15% · 2021 96% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — 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
36% of CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
89% of CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC 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 $6.1M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48M 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 STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- California State University Fullerton · exempt
- Cal State University Fullerton Alumni Association · exempt
- Cal State University Fullerton Auxiliary Service Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC 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 STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION?
- CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,325,989 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($40,161,500). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $54,325,989 in grants to CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $40,161,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC 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 107 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