California · Nonprofit
COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN
COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,099,899 to it, the largest being Pasadena Community Foundation ($767,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What College Access Plan does
Mission
We're a student-centered support system that serves any student who opts into our services. Cap fosters meaningful interactions to assist students and their families through any and all college readiness and success steps, supporting them as they navigate the journey from middle school through college graduation. We strive to ensure that students consider all their options because we believe that college should be accessible to everyone regardless of academic achievement, income level, or any other qualifying factors. Our purpose and goal is to create a program that best suits unique students' needs by providing programs that are open-to-all. Cap serves an average of 2,700 students and their families annually.in january of 2025, the eaton fire tore through our community. College Access Plan responded by directly supporting fire impacted families with immediate emergency assistance, developing programmatic resources to rapidly address urgent needs and financial aid appeals support,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
High school program:College Access Plan (cap) provided college support through twice weekly drop-in sessions and individualized appointments at six pasadena unified school district (pusd) high schools and four hacienda la puente unified school district (hlpusd) high schools. In these sessions, students develop college lists, complete college and financial aid applications, apply for scholarships, and more. Cap also provided college 101 and college essay writing courses focused on navigating the holistic admissions process.the purpose of cap's on-campus offerings is to provide fundamental college information to high school students and to follow that information up with programs that are individualized to meet each student's unique college needs. These offerings are run in collaboration with on-site after school programs and with the administrators at school sites. They are available for drop-ins, providing no barriers to access.2024-2025 year was the second year of college champions, a youth leadership program for first generation college-going students who act as trained college advocates in their school communities and receive an early start in the college application process.
$580,431 spentof which $13,550 as grants$399,727 earned by the program42% of program spendingMiddle school program:cap offers courses for middle school students in classrooms during the school day and after school and multi-session introductory workshops for fifth graders. The courses focus on exploration of college, career, academic, and personal interests as well as financial aid, and they are paired with one-on-one counseling sessions with a cap staff member.
$160,087 spent$99,020 earned by the program12% of program spendingI heart college:cap supports college students who had regularly attended cap's high school programs with support through college success. Students received online, in-person, and remote support in this program. Students also received expert support with enrolling in college courses, renewing their financial aid, and navigating the college landscape. The program also provides students with financial and leadership opportunities through socialization with peers, scholarships through partnerships, service on cap's alumni advisory council, and as volunteers for cap's programs.
$237,183 spent17% of program spendingGeneral programs:in addition to presenting at key educational conferences, conducting important research and developing materials and tools for use by students across all program offerings, cap led college-readiness presentations and workshops in collaboration with the boys and girls clubs of pasadena, the city of pasadena, the pasadena educational foundation, and other community partners. Cap also provided a full-scale parent-engagement effort that provided workshops and information to the families of the students cap serves. Participants in all presentations and workshops received materials that include college-readiness benchmarks and guidelines.in january of 2025, the eaton fire tore through our community. College Access Plan responded by directly supporting fire impacted families with immediate emergency assistance, developing programmatic resources to rapidly address urgent needs and financial aid appeals support, and partnering with local organizations to build long-term response infrastructure.
$392,942 spent$42,365 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,370,643.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $2.9M (+150%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 8% · 2023 6% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Monique Hyman
Executive director
Board chair
Dominick Correy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $249k → $568k.
7 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
32% 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 COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 18% · 2020 17% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
95% of COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: 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 COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN?
- COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,099,899 to it, the largest being Pasadena Community Foundation ($767,200). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $5,099,899 in grants to COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN?
- Pasadena Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $767,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE ACCESS PLAN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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