California · Nonprofit
Los Rios Colleges Foundation
Los Rios Colleges Foundation (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,501 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($548,133). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Los Rios Colleges Foundation does
Mission
To raise private philanthropic gifts that improve student success and help prepare an educated workforce through scholarships, emergency grants, and college program support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct student support is critical to keeping students in school and succeeding especially among the 46% that are low income or below poverty. The Student Emergency Fund assisted with basic needs, housing and food insecurity. 1,271 students received scholarships provided by generous individuals, corporations, foundations, and employees. Scholarships cover tuition, fees, textbooks, transportation, and living expenses for students with a high level of financial need and/or outstanding academic performance. The Los Rios scholarship program supports deserving students including foster youth, veterans, single parents, and at-risk low income populations.
$1,045,701 spentof which $1,045,701 as grants20% of program spendingThe Los Rios Colleges Foundation provides philantrhopic support to the four Los Rios Colleges (American River, Cosumnes River, Folsom Lake, and Sacramento City) and the Harris Center for the Arts, by serving as the vehicle through which individuals and organizations may invest in the Los Rios Colleges and their students, departments, and programs. The Los Rios Colleges Foundation provided support to college departments and programs during the 2024-25 academic year. These resources allowed college faculty, staff, and administrators to improve existing programs, experiment with new and innovative approaches and support student success.(Continued on Schedule O)The Foundation proudly serves as the philanthropic arm of the Harris Center for the Arts on the Folsom Lake College Campus, helping keep world-class arts experiences thriving in our community. Donor support brings the arts to life by funding free matinee performances for children from low-income schools, providing mini-grants for emerging artists, and sustaining high-quality programming that ticket sales alone can't cover. Our engaging membership program also fuels vital volunteer efforts that make every performance possible.…
$3,552,086 spentof which $3,552,086 as grants70% of program spendingThanks to generous corporate and indiviual donors, Los Rios Colleges Foundation continued to remove barriers for students through the Los Rios Promise. The Los Rios Promise Scholarships provided $500 awards to first-time, full-time students with high financial need. Promise to Career scholarships helped students in construction and allied health programs prepare for high-paying, high-quality jobs and meet the demand in the region for skilled workers. The scholarships encourage students to enroll and complete these critical educational pathways by removing barriers like necessary program equipment and state testing.
$167,825 spentof which $167,825 as grants3% of program spendingThe Los Rios Colleges Foundation gratefully receives gifts of real estate, goods, and equipment supporting academic programs, student learning, and campus cultural enrichment. In-kind gifts this year provided students with hands-on opportunities and tools for workforce success, including wine for the culinary program, pianos, art, and sewing supplies for teaching, artwork for cultural inspiration, clothes and hygiene items for job interview preparation, and equipment for the optical technology program. Many gifts come from generous industry partners who value skilled employees educated at Los Rios Colleges.
$338,919 spentof which $338,919 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,104,531.
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.
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 $24M to $29M (+20%).
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 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $142k → $1.1M.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $1.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sutter Valley Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money Los Rios Colleges Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Los Rios Colleges Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
Los Rios Colleges Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 Los Rios Colleges Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 38% · 2019 27% · 2020 63% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 40% — 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
42% of Los Rios Colleges Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
70% of Los Rios Colleges 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. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like Los Rios Colleges 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Los Rios Colleges 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 Los Rios Colleges Foundation?
- Los Rios Colleges Foundation (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,377,501 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($548,133). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Los Rios Colleges Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,377,501 in grants to Los Rios Colleges Foundation, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Los Rios Colleges Foundation?
- FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES is the largest funder on record, with $548,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Los Rios Colleges 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.
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 50 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