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Chico State Enterprises

Chico State Enterprises (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,456,039 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,682,609). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$84M
Revenue FY2025
31
Funders on record
$8.5M
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
15/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

Chico State Enterprises has grown faster than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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 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 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 117 ($41M) Expenses 106 ($40M) Net assets 108 ($28M)2019 Revenue 117 ($42M) Expenses 106 ($39M) Net assets 119 ($31M)2020 Revenue 119 ($42M) Expenses 114 ($43M) Net assets 118 ($31M)2021 Revenue 132 ($47M) Expenses 125 ($47M) Net assets 126 ($33M)2022 Revenue 153 ($54M) Expenses 142 ($53M) Net assets 120 ($32M)2023 Revenue 168 ($60M) Expenses 162 ($60M) Net assets 121 ($32M)2024 Revenue 216 ($77M) Expenses 210 ($78M) Net assets 115 ($30M)2025 Revenue 238 ($84M) Expenses 220 ($82M) Net assets 122 ($32M)
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Revenue (238)Expenses (220)Net assets (122)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 69% · 2018 70% · 2019 66% · 2020 76% · 2021 78% · 2022 77% · 2023 80% · 2024 80% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of Chico State Enterprises’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
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$1.8M
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$2.2M
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$253k
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$293k
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$1.5M
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$815k
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$1.5M
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$2.3M
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1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income fell $743k → $545k.

4 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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: $10.0M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The University Foundation California State University Chico). These are real filings, and they are not money Chico State Enterprises raised.

From the IRS filings of Chico State Enterprises’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

Chico State Enterprises has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

86% 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 Chico State Enterprises.

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 40% · 2021 43% · 2022 40% · 2023 34%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

36% of Chico State Enterprises's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

51% of Chico State Enterprises's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

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. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding Chico State Enterprises receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $152.1M on record.

Federal$152.1M
grants $151.3Mcontracts $791k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$77.3M
  • Department of the Interior$29.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$17.5M
  • National Science Foundation$12.9M
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$4.5M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Chico State Enterprises

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.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
25%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • California State University Chico · exempt
  • Associated Students of Csu Chico · exempt
  • The University Foundation Csu Chico · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chico State Enterprises: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Chico State Enterprises?
Chico State Enterprises (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,456,039 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,682,609). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chico State Enterprises have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $8,456,039 in grants to Chico State Enterprises, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chico State Enterprises?
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,682,609 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chico State Enterprises 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 31funders 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