California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,996,109 to it, the largest being TROESH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,100,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $483M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $336M
What California Baptist University does
Mission
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
California Baptist University believes each person has been created for a purpose and strives to help students understand and engage this purpose by providing a christ-centered educational experience that integrates academic with spiritual and social development opportunities. The university consists of ten schools and colleges and a division of online education, serving a total of 11,931 students. Cbu offers over 100 undergraduate bachelor degree programs, 2 undergraduate associate degree programs, over 40 graduate-level master programs and 9 doctoral programs.
$114,835,834 spent$205,775,647 earned by the program28% of program spendingCbu offers a multitude of scholarship and grant opportunities to make the cost of attendance more affordable. This includes institutional and private scholarships, from funds with and without donor restrictions, in the form of grants that may be based on merit, performance, need, or some other specific criteria.
$187,189,055 spentof which $187,189,055 as grants46% of program spendingCbu seeks to aid the student body with emotional and physical well-being and provides intellectual, cultural, and social development outside the context of the formal instruction program. Student services include admissions, career guidance, counseling, cultural events, disability services, intercollegiate athletics, new student programs, recreation sports, safety services, spiritual life, student activities, student aid administration, student health service, student leadership and student organizations.
$69,191,346 spent$123,984,764 earned by the program17% of program spendingIn addition to quality instruction and student services, cbu provides facilities and activities to further promote the educational experience of students at the university. This includes food services, housing for students, faculty and staff, the campus and team stores, conferencesand events, and tahquitz pines camp.
$27,003,015 spent$48,387,011 earned by the program7% of program spendingCbu provides academic support services for the institution's primary programs of instruction. It includes advising, library, registrar, student success, technology labs and the writing center.
$10,911,104 spent$19,551,733 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $409,130,354.
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 2022 to 2023, from $619M to $688M (+11%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 11% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% 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.
Board chair
Anthony Dockery
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.5M.
21 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $133k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Baptist University Foundation); $13k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 68% · 2019 86% · 2020 76% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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
40% of CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56.1M on record.
- Department of Education$51.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.6M
- National Science Foundation$682k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
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
93%
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 2 related entities
- Cbu Hemet Street LLC · disregarded
- 3501 Adams LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: 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 CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,996,109 to it, the largest being TROESH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($9,100,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $19,996,109 in grants to CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- TROESH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY 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.
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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 102 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