California · Nonprofit
POINT FOUNDATION
POINT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,623,260 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,216,200). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Point Foundation does
Mission
Point Foundation supports the educational aspirations of lgbtq+ and ally students to become impactful leaders in their lives, careers, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship & scholar supportas of june 2025, Point Foundation (point) has awarded 4,347 scholarships and has invested more than $64 million in our lgbtq+ and ally scholars.Point Foundation currently awards four types of scholarships: our traditional flagship scholarship, community college scholarship, access scholarship, and persistence scholarship. All scholarship programs provide financial assistance. In addition, the flagship, community college, and access scholarships include leadership development programming designed to support student success. Scholars benefit from a community of lgbtq+ and ally students and alumni, leadership training, and professional development. By providing lgbtq+ and ally students with the resources to succeed in higher education, Point Foundation is building a generation of lgbtq+ and ally leaders with the skills to advance representation in their chosen fields and across society.during the 2024-2025 academic year, Point Foundation supported 779 students. Additionally, point provided additional emergency funding to 22 scholars. As a champion for equal access to higher education, Point Foundation is proud that 52 percent of our scholars are the first…
$3,919,232 spentof which $1,889,836 as grants61% of program spendingLeadership development: point provided a blend of in-person and online programming in 2024-2025. The highlight of this year's in-person programming was the 3-day national leadership conference (nlc) in washington d.c. The nlc brought together over 100 point staff, scholars, and community members, including 85 scholars and alumni to participate in knowledge sharing panels, workshops, and field trips all centered around the theme capitalize the moment: lgbtq leadership for today & tomorrow. The nlc theme emphasizes the urgency of the moment and the importance of empowering lgbtq+ and ally leaders to make a difference in their personal and professional endeavors. Highlights from the event include panels and talks with representatives from lgbtq leaders in higher education and peer scholarship organizations. Nlc also oriented the flagship scholars to the community and provided ample opportunity to inform them of their scholarship expectations and resources. In addition to nlc, point continued our career exposure programming efforts by bringing scholars to meet in-person with corporate partners, learn about career opportunities, develop networking skills, and gather resources to…
$1,819,526 spentof which $414,450 as grants28% of program spendingScholar selections:the flagship scholarship application opened september 10, 2024, and closed december 5, 2024. We received 4,156 applications. Of these, 1,301 advanced to the semifinal round and were asked to submit additional materials. 104 candidates advanced to the final round. Finalists submitted a recorded presentation about their academic interests, professional goals, and leadership. Ultimately, 31 candidates were selected as point flagship scholars.the community college scholarship application opened november 21, 2024, and closed february 20, 2024. We received 691 applications. Of these, 176 advanced to the final round. Finalists submitted an eligibility check by confirming their enrollment plans for 2025-26, an additional essay, and career questionnaire. Ultimately, 101 candidates were selected as community college scholars.we ran the first of two annual selection cycles for the access scholarship. This cycle opened february 8, 2024, and closed march 14, 2024. We received 1,045 applications. Ultimately, 180 candidates were selected as access scholars.persistence scholarship recipients do not apply; instead, we select highly-rated flagship, community college, and access…
$666,655 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,405,413.
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 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $15M (+50%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of POINT 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.
Chief executive
Jorge Valencia
Executive director & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $471k → $2.3M.
35 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 POINT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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
POINT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
57% 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 POINT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 28% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 62% · 2022 13% · 2023 13% — 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
37% of POINT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
54% of POINT FOUNDATION'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 $6.3M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside California, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
POINT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like POINT 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POINT 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 POINT FOUNDATION?
- POINT FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,623,260 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,216,200). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POINT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $13,623,260 in grants to POINT FOUNDATION, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POINT FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,216,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POINT 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 145 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