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SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,275,202 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($33,127,418). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% · 2024 33% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $7.6M → $15M.
28 of 181 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $34M from 25 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Campanile Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 181 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
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 31% · 2020 29% · 2021 31% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% — 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 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 181 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 132 organizations that share your funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Feed Education and Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maravai Lifesciences Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parma Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sharp Healthcareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Contorer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 96 organizations that share your funders
- American Lung Associationshared fundersIL · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $656.2M on record — $655.8M federal, $333k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$337.0M
- National Science Foundation$108.9M
- Department of Education$95.1M
- Department of Defense$53.0M
- Department of the Interior$13.6M
- Department of Agriculture$13.5M
- OR$284k
- MA$29k
- OK$11k
- DE$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90%
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 3 related entities
- Sdsu Foundation Veba Trust · exempt
- San Diego State University · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,275,202 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($33,127,418). 107 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 181 organizations giving $111,275,202 in grants to SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 107 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $33,127,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 181funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing