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CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND

CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,111 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$512
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$123k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Cal Strawberry Growers Scholarship Fund does

Mission

The california strawberry growers scholarship fund established a scholarship fund to award scholarships to second through fourth year college students to benefit the children of farm workers in the strawberry industry who have received first-year college scholarships through the california strawberry commission's scholarship program.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Scholarships are awarded to students who are children of strawberry field workers in california. In 2024, there were no scholarships awarded.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The 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 ($80k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 89 ($71k) Expenses 67 ($76k) Net assets 19 ($1k)2019 Revenue 81 ($65k) Expenses 49 ($55k) Net assets 203 ($11k)2020 Revenue 256 ($206k) Expenses 75 ($85k) Net assets 2382 ($132k)2021 Revenue 57 ($46k) Expenses 56 ($63k) Net assets 2068 ($115k)2022 Revenue 75 ($61k) Expenses 50 ($56k) Net assets 2142 ($119k)2023 Revenue 8 ($6k) Expenses 1 ($2k) Net assets 2228 ($124k)2024 Revenue 1 ($512) Expenses 1 ($1k) Net assets 2211 ($123k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (1)Net assets (2211)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $11k to $132k (+1071%).

$6k
$4k
$11k
$132k
$115k
$120k
$124k
$123k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
−$4k
’18
$10k
’19
$121k
’20
−$17k
’21
$4k
’22
$5k
’23
−$949
’24
19
months of
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

Neil Nagata

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $25.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
2
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND’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

CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND.

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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

100% of CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−185% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−51% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: 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 STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,111 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,111 in grants to CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAL STRAWBERRY GROWERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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