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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.

$11k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$33k
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%

Against its field

CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,121 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−304% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)67% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,121 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($883) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2020 Revenue 8939 ($79k) Expenses 379 ($13k) Net assets 604 ($45k)2021 Revenue 5649 ($50k) Expenses 897 ($31k) Net assets 631 ($47k)2022 Revenue 5764 ($51k) Expenses 888 ($30k) Net assets 904 ($68k)2023 Revenue 663 ($6k) Expenses 670 ($23k) Net assets 675 ($51k)2024 Revenue 1295 ($11k) Expenses 1349 ($46k) Net assets 211 ($16k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1295)Expenses (1349)Net assets (211)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,569 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
19
$66k
20
$19k
21
$20k
22
$17k
23
$35k
24
02Who funds it

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.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

CA

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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.

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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing