California · Nonprofit
Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation
Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,140 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($93,133). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $203k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation does
Mission
The southwest community college foundation's mission is to provide resources for initiatives, programs and scholarships directly benefiting lasc students, faculty, and staff while committed to making higher education attainable.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The southwest community college foundation's mission is to provide resources for initiatives, programs and scholarships directly benefiting laswc students,faculty, and staff while committed to making higher education attainable.
$94,920 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,920.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $106k (+182%).
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.
100% of Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Harold Dickens
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $29k.
From the IRS filings of Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest 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
Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 44% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation?
- Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,140 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ($93,133). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $203,140 in grants to Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest College Foundation?
- FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES is the largest funder on record, with $93,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southwest Community College Foundation DBALA Southwest 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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