California · Nonprofit
CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,075,617 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($7,411,386). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Coro Northern California Inc does
Mission
Coro northern california (coro) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization focused on redefining leadership coro's mission is to equip people with skills, knowledge, and networks to collaborate and accelerate positive change wherever they are founded in san francisco in 1942, coro has a 76-year track record of cultivating emerging leaders through experiential leadership programs for youth, recent college graduates, and professionals coro helps emerging leaders find their voices, paths, and passions-and ignite change in their communities coro offers an innovative, hands-on approach to develop leadership skills through intensive experiential learning and internship placements, group interaction, and collaborative communication our programs are comprehensive and transformative, giving participants lifelong skills and confidence we are dedicated to serving diverse communities and we empower participants to develop and apply their skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
UC ANR-Coro Leadership Collaborative: The Coro Faculty Leadership Collaborative is a cohort-based leadership development program designed to strengthen participants ability to lead effectively from any role within UC ANR. Through a mix of in-person sessions, virtual learning, and applied practice, participants build greater self-awareness, enhance interpersonal communication skills, and develop the confidence to analyze complex organizational challenges and act as change agents.The program emphasizes trust-based relationships, inclusive leadership, and practical tools for navigating difficult conversations, giving and receiving feedback, and bringing people together across differences. Participants also form deep, cross-functional connections with peers, fostering a lasting network of emerging leaders committed to positive change within ANR.
$3,241,183 spentof which $581,265 as grants$1,449,109 earned by the program100% of program spendingIn January 2025, Coro welcomed its second cohort of Partnership for the Bays Future Fellowship Fellows. The Fellows spend two years as Coro employees, working in jurisdictions across the Bay Area to promote equitable and inclusive affordable housing policy. Coro launched a new program with UC ANR, a new UC partner.In April 2025, Coro hosted a Spring Celebration, gathering hundreds of members of its network together to celebrate Coros mission of developing ethical and effective leaders. Ned Segal, San Franciscos Chief of Housing and Economic Development was the keynote speaker. In June 2025, Coro Northern Californias Board voted to pursue a Plan of Merger with Coro Southern California. This vote kicked off an intensive process of due diligence in preparation for a Board vote in the Fall of 2025, which ultimately resulted in the decision to merge the two entities.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,241,183.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $2.7M (−47%).
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 8% · 2022 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Catherine Whitcanack
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $754k → $2.6M.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 88% · 2019 86% · 2020 82% · 2021 63% · 2022 77% · 2023 81% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
56% of CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC'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 $7.1M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC has grown faster than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC
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
75% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: 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 CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,075,617 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($7,411,386). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $16,075,617 in grants to CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,411,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC 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 37 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