California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,486,764 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($816,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $23M
What California Institute of Integral Studies does
Mission
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. Over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. Ours is a mosaic of faces and philosophies, backgrounds and beliefs. Like our faculty and staff, students are intellectually engaged and socially active. Each day brings new experiences that broaden horizons and hone critical thinking. Programs, both inside the classroom and throughout the campus, inspire creativity, nurture community, cultivate curiosity, and foster social good.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
California Institute of Integral Studies is an accredited institution of higher education that strives to embody spirit, intellect and the wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. Services for students include an extensive library. Over 1700 students are enrolled in master, doctoral, and bachelor of arts completion programs, as well as other professional certifications.
$26,479,777 spentof which $1,420,405 as grants$36,294,536 earned by the program92% of program spendingPublic programs offer adult continuing education with innovative, experiential learning opportunities that move beyond the constraints of degree centered education. Over 75 programs annually serve more than 10,000 participants with subjects for personal growth and professional development for mental health professionals.
$988,798 spent$335,404 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe six counseling centers of ciis offer mind-body-spirit psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families in the bay area community, providing a safe and supportive setting. Ciis students and post-graduate interns are trained at the centers, serving more than 2000 clients annually in exploring a wide range of life's issues with affordable, sliding-scale fees.
$1,388,535 spent$1,360,949 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,857,110.
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 $37M to $45M (+21%).
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% · 2020 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Michael Pinto
Chair, board of trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 11 funders, grant income rose $440k → $1.0M.
11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
53% 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 48% · 2019 31% · 2020 37% · 2021 64% · 2022 25% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record — $2.4M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$2.4M
- Non-Employee Reimbursements$3k
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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ciis Clinics LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: 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 INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES?
- CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,486,764 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ($816,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,486,764 in grants to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $816,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES 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 44 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