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FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY

FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,622,425 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($450,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$60M
11/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay does

Mission

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Management of endowments, including related scholarship awards, and support of california state university, monterey bay through development, public relations and other financial assistance.

    $1,727,796 spentof which $1,512,449 as grants$2,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,727,796.

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 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($24M)2018 Revenue 122 ($3.0M) Expenses 131 ($1.4M) Net assets 109 ($26M)2019 Revenue 166 ($4.0M) Expenses 119 ($1.2M) Net assets 122 ($29M)2020 Revenue 156 ($3.8M) Expenses 138 ($1.4M) Net assets 126 ($30M)2021 Revenue 96 ($2.3M) Expenses 124 ($1.3M) Net assets 158 ($37M)2022 Revenue 180 ($4.4M) Expenses 123 ($1.3M) Net assets 147 ($34M)2023 Revenue 218 ($5.3M) Expenses 139 ($1.4M) Net assets 162 ($38M)2024 Revenue 324 ($7.9M) Expenses 233 ($2.4M) Net assets 196 ($46M)2025 Revenue 553 ($13M) Expenses 204 ($2.1M) Net assets 254 ($60M)
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Revenue (553)Expenses (204)Net assets (254)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 2024 to 2025, from $46M to $60M (+29%).

$24M
$26M
$29M
$30M
$37M
$35M
$38M
$46M
$60M
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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
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2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
$1.6M
’18
$2.8M
’19
$2.4M
’20
$1.1M
’21
$3.1M
’22
$3.9M
’23
$5.5M
’24
$11M
’25
24
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.

Board chair

Greg Gonzalez

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232322211819181818
Joined·+4+5+1+3+3+2+9+9
No longer listed·46262399
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $21k → $88k.

10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $4.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University Corporation at Monterey Bay). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY raised.

From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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

FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY.

28%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 35% · 2019 56% · 2020 39% · 2021 82% · 2022 35% · 2023 36% — 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

43% of FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY'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 $799k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

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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. $823k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin84% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY

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In California

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

42%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

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Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • California State University Monterey Bay · exempt
  • Otter Student Union at California State University Monterey Bay · exempt
  • University Corporation at Monterey Bay · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY?
FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,622,425 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH ($450,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,622,425 in grants to FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY?
FOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MONTEREY BAY 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 24 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