California · Nonprofit
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,754,867 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($3,049,750). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.9M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $54M
What Hartnell College Foundation does
Mission
The mission of Hartnell College Foundation is to cultivate resources to champion student success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
When it was established in 1979, the Hartnell College Foundation's primary focus was on raising funds for student scholarships. Today, the Foundation has expanded its support for the college and its students with resources for scholarships, facilities, workforce development, and innovative programs. Between 2006 and 2012, the Foundation completed the colleges first comprehensive capital campaign in its 85-year history, raising $12 million. The Board and committees were expanded to involve over 250 community leaders. At the end of 2012, the Foundation launched a President's Task Force. This group was comprised of 43 members representing the community and campus leadership. They oversaw a campus-wide needs assessment that identified key initiatives appropriate for private support. These initiatives were the basis of a five-year, $15 million funding plan. From 2012-2019, the Foundation far exceeded its fundraising goal of $15 million by raising $45 million, three times the original target. The Foundation recently organized another community led President's Task Force, which resulted in a funding plan for 2020-2025. The plan includes initiatives for innovative and accelerated…
$6,936,777 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,936,777.
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 2017 to 2018, from $16M to $38M (+131%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 4% · 2019 15% · 2020 23% · 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $1.6M.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
29% 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 34% · 2019 31% · 2020 17% · 2021 59% · 2022 55% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $813k 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
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hartnell Community College District · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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 HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,754,867 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($3,049,750). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $11,754,867 in grants to HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,049,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 52 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