California · Nonprofit
FULFILLMENT FUND
FULFILLMENT FUND (California) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,355,667 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,362,423). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Fulfillment Fund does
Mission
Fulfillment Fund makes college a reality for students from economically and educationally underresourced communities. Through in-depth and individualized support, each year Fulfillment Fund helps thousands of first-generation, low-income students go to and complete college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
College access program: 9th - 12th grade students attending Fulfillment Fund partner high school receive classroom-based instruction, intensive one-on-one college and financial aid counseling from master's level counselors, sat and act preparation, college site visits and experiential learning activities. Our programs open young people's eyes to the possibility of higher education, and change their beliefs about what the students are capable of achieving. This program serves 2,900 students.
$932,420 spent$77,970 earned by the program33% of program spendingCollege success program: Fulfillment Fund students matriculating to college are eligible to compete for Fulfillment Fund college scholarships, which not only provide financial assistance but are combined with counseling and advising support to provide academic, career and workforce readiness services so they can complete their degree and embark on a professional career. Fulfillment Fund college scholars have a graduation rate of 86%, compared to the 54% rate of their national counterparts. As they graduate from college, Fulfillment Fund alumni are encouraged to support the organization and the next generation of students by becoming donors, volunteers and ambassadors. In this way, the work of the Fulfillment Fund perpetuates a cycle of giving in the community. This program serves 1,321 students.
$1,859,733 spentof which $588,500 as grants$205,444 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,792,153.
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 $3.4M to $6.1M (+77%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FULFILLMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Amy Grat
CEO
Board chair
Wendy Spinner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.5M.
15 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FULFILLMENT FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 121 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
FULFILLMENT FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
46% 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 FULFILLMENT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% — 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
47% of FULFILLMENT FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
75% of FULFILLMENT FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FULFILLMENT FUND's funding base is broadening — from 31 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FULFILLMENT FUND
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 FULFILLMENT FUND: 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 FULFILLMENT FUND?
- FULFILLMENT FUND (California) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,355,667 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,362,423). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FULFILLMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $12,355,667 in grants to FULFILLMENT FUND, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FULFILLMENT FUND?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,362,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FULFILLMENT FUND 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 121 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