California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,780,838 to it, the largest being American Bureau of Shipping ($581,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $39M
What California Maritime Academy Foundation Inc does
Mission
Working with the faculty, alumni, parents, donors, and students, seeking to broaden cal maritime's community to include all who hold a stake in its past, present, and future. Responsibilities include fundraising, donor relations, alumni affairs, legislativeaffairs, and fundraising database management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Activities relating to raising money for scholarships, supporting the academic and student programs, and building the endowment.
$6,478,786 spentof which $163,244 as grants$597,311 earned by the program90% of program spendingScholarships - scholarship donations are provided to the university and awarded to students to offset the cost of attending the academy.
$694,828 spentof which $694,828 as grants10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,173,614.
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 2021 to 2022, from $29M to $42M (+45%).
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.
56% of CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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
John Betz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $106k → $153k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $270k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University Enterprises Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC’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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 79% · 2019 94% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 60% · 2023 39% — 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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $614k 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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: 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 MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
- CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,780,838 to it, the largest being American Bureau of Shipping ($581,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,780,838 in grants to CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
- American Bureau of Shipping is the largest funder on record, with $581,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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