California · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550,334 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,221,155). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers does
Mission
Shpe changes lives by empowering the hispanic community to realize its fullest potential and to impact the world through stem awareness, access, support and development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The annual conference program's mission is to bring together students, professionals, and employers from the private and public sector in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The services offered include career expo, interview opportunities with potential employers, networking opportunities, educational events and professional development workshops lead by prominent speakers.
$9,233,923 spent$10,051,284 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe shpe scholarship program provides scholarship awards to qualified undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in qualified academic institutions and studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering and/or math. Shpe's interim ceo, miguel alemany, provided an in kind donation of his salary to support helen cuesta scholarships and establish the helen cuesta endowed scholarship fund.
$1,309,077 spentof which $1,309,077 as grants$870,364 earned by the program12% of program spendingGrants received by shpe during fy24 supported twenty-three unique programs at a national scale, five of which were newly developed and launched. These grants supported more than 150 events and impacted nearly 20,000 shpe members and community members.
$745,913 spent$1,529,445 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,288,913.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $9.6M (−18%).
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 4% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Suzanna Valdez Wolfe
Chief executive officer
Board chair
William Davis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $48k → $796k.
8 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 89% · 2020 40% · 2021 42% · 2022 61% · 2023 62% — 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
67% of SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
51% of SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS'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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside California, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$840k
- Department of State$141k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$58k
- Environmental Protection Agency$37k
- National Science Foundation$20k
- Department of Justice$16k
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 SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: 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 SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS?
- SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,550,334 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,221,155). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,550,334 in grants to SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,221,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS 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 31 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