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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,000 to it, the largest being TRELLIS FOUNDATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$401k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$106k
Grants received
$251k
Net assets
0/4 repeat funders

Against its field

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−41% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 ($29M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($26M)2018 Revenue 579 ($168M) Expenses 1693 ($50M) Net assets 556 ($145M)2019 Revenue 158 ($46M) Expenses 2941 ($86M) Net assets 116 ($30M)2020 Revenue 126 ($36M) Expenses 2381 ($70M) Net assets 18 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 237 ($69M) Expenses 2485 ($73M) Net assets -16 ($-4058300)2022 Revenue 439 ($127M) Expenses 4821 ($142M) Net assets -255 ($-66202507)2023 Revenue 359 ($104M) Expenses 3922 ($115M) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 0 ($113k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($113k)2025 Revenue 1 ($401k) Expenses 9 ($263k) Net assets 1 ($251k)
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Revenue (1)Expenses (9)Net assets (1)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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$26M
17
$118M
18
$41M
19
$34M
20
$4.4M
21
$15M
22
$11M
23
$113k
24
$138k
25
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $68M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National University). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 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

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

85%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

NY
AZ
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

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.

Organizations like NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 16%Fundraising 35%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • National University · exempt
  • City University of Seattle · exempt
  • John F Kennedy University · exempt
  • National University Virtual High School · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 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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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 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,000 to it, the largest being TRELLIS FOUNDATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $106,000 in grants to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
TRELLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 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 4funders 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