California · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY
CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Catholic Polytechnic University Aka Saint Junipero Serra University does
Mission
The Mission of Catholic Polytechnic University is to advance the evangelical mission of the Catholic Church entrusted to her by Christ through the formation of scientists, engineers, and technology leaders with expertise in business, communications, and theology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
University is in the formation stage.
$46,245 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,245.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $51k to $16k (−69%).
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.
12% of CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY’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
CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
62% 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 CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 56% · 2022 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
62% of CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY: 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 CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY?
- CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,500 to it, the largest being CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,500 in grants to CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY?
- CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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