California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (California) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,750,527 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($23,707,544). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $179M
What California College of the Arts does
Mission
California College of the Arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. Benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares students for lifelong creative work by cultivating innovation, community engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Post-secondary educationCalifornia College of the Arts (cca) is a private, nonprofit educational institution founded in 1907 to educate students of diverse backgrounds in fine arts, design, architecture, and writing. The college's main campus is in san francisco. The college currently enrolls approximately 929 students in 22 undergraduate programs and 263 students in 13 graduate programs. Cca is accredited by the western association of schools and colleges senior college and university commission (wscuc/wasc), the national association of schools of art and design (nasad), and the national architectural accrediting board (naab).
$89,874,095 spentof which $33,074,917 as grants$85,720,768 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $89,874,095.
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 $200M to $277M (+38%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS’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. 2 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
Lorna F Meyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $5.4M.
20 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 25% · 2019 43% · 2020 53% · 2021 15% · 2022 50% · 2023 29% — 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
43% of CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
73% of CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS'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 $14M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38M 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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.
- Department of Education$6.9M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$225k
- National Endowment for the Arts$85k
- National Science Foundation$70k
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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: 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 COLLEGE OF THE ARTS?
- CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (California) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,750,527 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($23,707,544). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $51,750,527 in grants to CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,707,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS 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 105 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