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SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS

SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,428,652 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 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
29
Funders on record
$5.4M
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($6.9M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 102 ($7.1M) Expenses 107 ($6.6M) Net assets 125 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 113 ($7.8M) Expenses 124 ($7.7M) Net assets 137 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 133 ($9.2M) Expenses 140 ($8.7M) Net assets 167 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 123 ($8.5M) Expenses 112 ($6.9M) Net assets 268 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 172 ($12M) Expenses 165 ($10M) Net assets 354 ($6.2M)2023 Revenue 206 ($14M) Expenses 228 ($14M) Net assets 360 ($6.3M)2024 Revenue 224 ($15M) Expenses 267 ($17M) Net assets 298 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 235 ($16M) Expenses 254 ($16M) Net assets 329 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (235)Expenses (254)Net assets (329)Peer revenue range

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
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2024
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$718k
17
$433k
18
$161k
19
$486k
20
$1.6M
21
$1.7M
22
$104k
23
$1.1M
24
$505k
25
4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $48k → $796k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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). 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 41% 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

75% 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.

41%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

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; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

52% 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 $2.6M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside California, across 16 states.

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
TX

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

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23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

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 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 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.

Federal$1.1M
grants $0contracts $1.1M
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Top agencies
  • 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

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 23%Fundraising 5%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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 50 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
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IA
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NJ
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RI
CA
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MO
KY
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DE
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KS
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TN
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SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
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GA
TX
FL

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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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 SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS?
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,428,652 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 52% 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 29 organizations giving $5,428,652 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.

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 29funders 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