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THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO

THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $325,600 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($325,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$326k
Net assets
$6.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What The Agricultural Foundation of California State University Fresno does

Mission

Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Various agricultural enterprises and student projects are carried out at the university farm at csuf exclusively for educational purposes.

    $4,086,082 spentof which $335 as grants$2,988,823 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,086,082.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.9M)2018 Revenue 116 ($4.5M) Expenses 118 ($5.0M) Net assets 91 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 101 ($3.9M) Expenses 108 ($4.6M) Net assets 78 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 126 ($4.9M) Expenses 102 ($4.3M) Net assets 91 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 109 ($4.2M) Expenses 99 ($4.2M) Net assets 98 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 112 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 98 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 100 ($3.9M) Expenses 94 ($4.0M) Net assets 98 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 114 ($4.4M) Expenses 93 ($3.9M) Net assets 121 ($5.9M)2025 Revenue 116 ($4.5M) Expenses 104 ($4.4M) Net assets 125 ($6.1M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (104)Net assets (125)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $6.4M (+18%).

$5.9M
$4.9M
$4.3M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.6M
$5.4M
$6.4M
$7.4M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$330k
’17
−$481k
’18
−$652k
’19
$616k
’20
$49k
’21
$117k
’22
−$92k
’23
$529k
’24
$115k
’25
3.8
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

Nicole Lane

Executive director

Board chair

Pat V Ricchiuti

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121211121312121210
Joined·+0+0+2+3+0+1+3+1
No longer listed·01121133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO’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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO?
THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $325,600 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($325,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $325,600 in grants to THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO.
Who is the largest funder of THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO?
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO 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 1 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