California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,342,267 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($1,413,336). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $71M
What California State University San Marcos Foundation does
Mission
The csusm foundation supports and promotes the university's mission by cultivating and maximizing private charitable investment, stewarding resources carefully, creating and nurturing meaningful regional relationships and partnerships, engaging the university's communities, advocating on behalf of the university, and building and sustaining a culture of philanthropy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Receipts of gifts and donations for various campus program activities including non-endowed scholarships, the ace foster youth scholarship program, the kaiser foundation nursing student loan program, the spicer student loan program, support for the campus veterans center, and support for the california indian culture and sovereignty center.
$4,895,390 spentof which $822,806 as grants$458,561 earned by the program75% of program spendingReceipt of endowment and scholarship gifts. The endowments are invested and the earnings are used to provide student scholarships.
$1,618,495 spentof which $1,618,495 as grants25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,513,885.
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 2023 to 2024, from $51M to $63M (+25%).
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.
73% of CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% 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
Emilie Hersh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $559k → $703k.
15 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $1.7M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
63% 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 UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 28% · 2019 43% · 2020 19% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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
34% of CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
80% of CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- California State University San Marcos · exempt
- California State University San Marcos San Marcos Corporation · exempt
- Associated Students Inc of Csusm · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: 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 UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION?
- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,342,267 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($1,413,336). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $7,342,267 in grants to CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $1,413,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS 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 61 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