California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES
CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,048 to it, the largest being ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $702k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $402k
What California State Games does
Mission
The mission of the California State Games is to promote and nurture the health, education, and well-being of residents by managing a high quality amateur sports event that encourages participation and provides an olympic-style experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 2025 California State Games were held in the summer in san diego. Participating were 5,576 athletes competing in 17 sports. The objective of the games is to host a high-quality amateur sports event that includes athletes from throughout california and neighboring states. The 17 sports included were archery, artisitc swimming, bmx racing, climbing, diving, field hockey, footgolf, judo, pickleball, rugby, skateboarding, softball, surfing, track & field, water polo and wrestling.
$262,662 spentof which $4,475 as grants$274,787 earned by the program64% of program spendingThe 2025 california winter games were held in san diego in february & march. Participating were 1,936 athletes competing in 3 sports. The objective of the california winter games is to host a high-quality amateur sports event that includes athletes from not only california but throughout the us. The sports included were figure skating, ice hockey & gymnastics.
$146,646 spent$207,512 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $409,308.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $351k to $523k (+49%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 6% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Mark Neville
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest San Diego Tourism Marketing District). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES’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 STATE GAMES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 STATE GAMES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 STATE GAMES: 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 STATE GAMES?
- CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,048 to it, the largest being ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $44,048 in grants to CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES?
- ANAHEIM DUCKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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