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Chaffey College Foundation

Chaffey College Foundation (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,423,361 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($4,775,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.6M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$6.4M
Net assets
$12M
8/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%
01What it does

What Chaffey College Foundation does

Mission

Supports academic and student services of the chaffey college district by providing resources for scholarships and awards to students and for program support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Supports academic, student services and departmental grants of the chaffey college district by providing scholarships, awards, and program enhancements to students and the community. District support revenues are garnered through departmental program events and student programming at the chaffey college district.

    $1,714,782 spent
    45% of program spending
  2. The foundation solicits and receives various grants. Grant fulfillment represents funds that have been spent according to the grant's purpose. Grants support a multitude of campus-wide initiatives, including program support, capital equipment, new programs and services and student support programs.

    $1,415,706 spent
    37% of program spending
  3. The foundation provides a variety of scholarship awards including merit-based, discipline/major, academic, sports and community service awards; for which students are able to apply for each semester. Scholarships come to the foundation through members of the community, college faculty and staff, service groups, schools, cities, districts and corporations both annually and through endowments.

    $715,395 spent
    19% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,845,883.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($978k) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.2M) Net assets 115 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 131 ($2.1M) Expenses 184 ($1.8M) Net assets 127 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 113 ($1.8M) Expenses 130 ($1.3M) Net assets 143 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 127 ($2.1M) Expenses 182 ($1.8M) Net assets 161 ($5.9M)2022 Revenue 247 ($4.0M) Expenses 155 ($1.5M) Net assets 214 ($7.9M)2023 Revenue 287 ($4.7M) Expenses 228 ($2.2M) Net assets 287 ($11M)2024 Revenue 142 ($2.3M) Expenses 257 ($2.5M) Net assets 294 ($11M)2025 Revenue 282 ($4.6M) Expenses 461 ($4.5M) Net assets 315 ($12M)
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Revenue (282)Expenses (461)Net assets (315)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 $8.2M to $11M (+36%).

$3.8M
$4.3M
$4.8M
$5.3M
$6.0M
$8.2M
$11M
$11M
$12M
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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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of Chaffey College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$655k
’17
$513k
’18
$339k
’19
$578k
’20
$294k
’21
$2.5M
’22
$2.4M
’23
−$187k
’24
$103k
’25
8.7
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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Listed171621192316181919
Joined·+0+8+3+6+2+4+4+3
No longer listed·13529233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $607k → $847k.

2 of 14 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: $780k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Inland Empire Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Chaffey College Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Chaffey College 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Chaffey College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 81% · 2019 84% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 39% · 2023 77% — 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

44% of Chaffey College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of Chaffey College Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
PA
CA
DC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Chaffey College Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Chaffey College Foundation

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Chaffey Community College District · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chaffey College Foundation?
Chaffey College Foundation (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,423,361 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($4,775,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chaffey College Foundation have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $6,423,361 in grants to Chaffey College Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chaffey College Foundation?
The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chaffey College 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 14 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