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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
14/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    90% of program spending
  2. Scholarships - 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 grants
    10% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,173,614.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 124 ($3.8M) Expenses 122 ($2.3M) Net assets 112 ($14M)2019 Revenue 95 ($2.9M) Expenses 152 ($2.9M) Net assets 111 ($14M)2020 Revenue 228 ($7.0M) Expenses 198 ($3.8M) Net assets 136 ($17M)2021 Revenue 406 ($12M) Expenses 138 ($2.7M) Net assets 224 ($28M)2022 Revenue 571 ($17M) Expenses 391 ($7.5M) Net assets 280 ($35M)2023 Revenue 186 ($5.7M) Expenses 592 ($11M) Net assets 240 ($30M)2024 Revenue 305 ($9.3M) Expenses 424 ($8.2M) Net assets 257 ($33M)2025 Revenue 438 ($13M) Expenses 458 ($8.8M) Net assets 307 ($39M)
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Revenue (438)Expenses (458)Net assets (307)Peer revenue range

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%).

$13M
$14M
$14M
$18M
$29M
$42M
$36M
$35M
$41M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

56% of CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$1.5M
’18
−$36k
’19
$3.1M
’20
$9.8M
’21
$9.9M
’22
−$5.7M
’23
$1.2M
’24
$4.6M
’25
16
months of
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.

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Listed222228283131282928
Joined·+0+12+7+10+7+6+8+7
No longer listed·06777978
03Who funds it

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.

33%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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.

WA
MN
NY
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

28
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

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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