California · Nonprofit
Community College League of California
Community College League of California (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,512,063 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,518,763). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Community College League of California does
Mission
The Community College League of California, a non-profit public benefit corporation, promotes student access and success by strengthening colleges through leadership development, advocacy, policy development and district services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conventions, Conferences and workshops: The League sponsors conferences, workshops and seminars that provide vital training, information and leadership development skills to its members. These include the annual convention, annual legislative conference, annual trustees conference, classified leadership institute and student trustees workshop.
$2,285,460 spent31% of program spendingGoverment Relations: The League represents the local community college perspective on educational, fiscal, organizational and governance issues, including issues of access and diversity, before the California State Legislature and Executive Branch.
$1,912,871 spent26% of program spendingProgram Support Services: Include special reports; research studies; telephone, supplies, postage, office & meeting space provision and maintenance; public relations and other miscellaneous program support services.
$1,495,118 spent20% of program spendingDistrict services programs: Provide member districts with cost-effective, easy-to-use purchasing, fiscal and foundation services. Districts benefit from the power of collaborative purchasing and competitive pricing for such services and commodities as online library databases, energy services and technical assistance in developing policies and procedures.
$964,546 spent13% of program spendingAthletic services: Through the California Commmunity College Athletics Association, provides services such as community colleges issues series and the state athletic code with circulation to some 35,000 community colleges, trustees and other interested in the work of community colleges.
$800,660 spent11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,458,655.
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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $17M (+14%).
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.
14% of Community College League of California’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Roger Schultz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $80k → $1.0M.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Community College League of California’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
Community College League of California leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 59% · 2020 33% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 50% — 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 Community College League of California's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% 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
59% of Community College League of California's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $801k 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.
Against its field
Community College League of California holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Community College League of California
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community College League of California: 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 Community College League of California?
- Community College League of California (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,512,063 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($2,518,763). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community College League of California have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $7,512,063 in grants to Community College League of California, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community College League of California?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,518,763 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community College League of California 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 11 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