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SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION

SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,133 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($861,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$15M
8/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Santa Ana College Foundation does

Mission

To maintain, expand and enhance the educational opportunities of santa ana college by linking community organizations, businesses, funding sources, alumni and staff, thus preserving our near century of "a history of success, a future promise."

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarship payments to students of santa ana college

    $956,559 spentof which $956,559 as grants
    75% of program spending
  2. The organization provides supplemental educational program support for the santa ana college.

    $318,297 spent
    25% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,274,856.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($10M)2018 Revenue 117 ($1.8M) Expenses 120 ($1.5M) Net assets 101 ($11M)2019 Revenue 63 ($986k) Expenses 82 ($1.0M) Net assets 105 ($11M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.6M) Expenses 112 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($11M)2021 Revenue 163 ($2.5M) Expenses 89 ($1.1M) Net assets 129 ($14M)2022 Revenue 202 ($3.1M) Expenses 101 ($1.3M) Net assets 126 ($13M)2023 Revenue 83 ($1.3M) Expenses 129 ($1.6M) Net assets 130 ($14M)2024 Revenue 82 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($1.5M) Net assets 137 ($14M)2025 Revenue 137 ($2.1M) Expenses 138 ($1.7M) Net assets 143 ($15M)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (138)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

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 $11M to $14M (+20%).

$11M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$14M
$13M
$14M
$14M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

46% of SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$296k
’17
$320k
’18
−$53k
’19
$196k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$1.9M
’22
−$336k
’23
−$228k
’24
$399k
’25
14
months of
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

Christina Romero

Executive director

Board chair

Kristin Crellin

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201920232322232525
Joined·+0+4+4+0+2+4+3+1
No longer listed·13103311
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $237k → $104k.

7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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.

How concentrated its funding is

SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

40%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 33% · 2020 55% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 30% — 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

31% of SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of SANTA ANA COLLEGE 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 $856k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 20%Fundraising 7%

Governance

25
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Santa Ana College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,133 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($861,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,176,133 in grants to SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $861,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA ANA 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.

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 25 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