California · Nonprofit
SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY
SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Mark E Pollack Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $322M
What San Francisco Bay University does
Mission
To provide quality higher education to help individuals of diverse backgrounds, interests, and skills achieve their full academic and career potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
San Francisco Bay University ("sfbu") is an institution of higher education offering degrees and certificates at the undergraduate and graduate level in fields such as business administration, computer science, business analytics, engineering, and data science. Sfbu has been accredited by wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) since 2020. The intensive english program received accreditation from the commission on english language program accreditation (cea) in 2020. Sfbu provides guest speaker lectures, orientation, career counseling services, library services, field trips, club activities, cultural events, and other services to support student education.
$16,188,232 spentof which $3,997,423 as grants$5,533,333 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,188,232.
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 2022 to 2023, from $264M to $306M (+16%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Hanno Sander
Chairman of the board (thru 7/24)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY has grown faster than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY: 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 SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY?
- SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Mark E Pollack Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY.
- Who is the largest funder of SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY?
- The Mark E Pollack Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAN FRANCISCO BAY UNIVERSITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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