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CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION

CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,750 to it, the largest being RUPP ROSCOE & ALTA TUW ($76,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$144k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$77k
Net assets
$3.6M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What California Metabolic Research Foundation does

Mission

California Metabolic Research Foundation is organized & operated exclusively for the benefit of & to carry out the objectives & purpose of san diego state university, conducting research in human metabolism

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation funded grant research activities in human metabolism to san diego state university, a government owned public school

    $153,108 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $153,108.

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 ($146k) Expenses 100 ($131k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 115 ($168k) Expenses 99 ($130k) Net assets 102 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 96 ($140k) Expenses 121 ($159k) Net assets 101 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 23 ($33k) Expenses 117 ($153k) Net assets 95 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 107 ($156k) Expenses 101 ($132k) Net assets 96 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 140 ($204k) Expenses 82 ($107k) Net assets 101 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 50 ($73k) Expenses 142 ($186k) Net assets 160 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 52 ($76k) Expenses 121 ($158k) Net assets 172 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 99 ($144k) Expenses 124 ($163k) Net assets 171 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (124)Net assets (171)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $3.4M (+58%).

$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$3.4M
$3.6M
$3.6M
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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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

8% of CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$38k
’18
−$18k
’19
−$120k
’20
$24k
’21
$96k
’22
−$114k
’23
−$82k
’24
−$18k
’25
3.6
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.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·00000200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $13k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

MO

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $77k to it.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $76,750 to it, the largest being RUPP ROSCOE & ALTA TUW ($76,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $76,750 in grants to CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
RUPP ROSCOE & ALTA TUW is the largest funder on record, with $76,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA METABOLIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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 1 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