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CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $2k
What California Coalition for Public Higher Education - Education Fund does
Mission
Develop awareness through informational programs to promote the importance of the university of california, the california state university system and our community colleges as preeminent drivers of the states economy, quality of life and provider of economic betterment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
- scheduled events to inform and instruct higher education professionals, community, state and federal leaders and the general public on issues which both provide challenge and potential opportunity for the california public higher education system. - created multi-lingual public service announcements through multiple media platforms including television, radio and web-based. - executed vital research-based initiative and analytics and communicated the findings through all media sources; including targeted direct-mail campaigns in support of the california public higher education system.
$25,854 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,854.
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 $16k to $7k (−58%).
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.
100% of CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dan Chernow
Chair/exec d
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION 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
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 50% · 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
100% of CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION 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 CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND?
- CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,500 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,500 in grants to CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION FUND?
- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION - EDUCATION 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.
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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 4 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