California · Nonprofit
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,867,508 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,011,550). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What The Breakthrough Collaborative does
Mission
Breakthrough collaborative works with motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We serve our constituencies across a collaborative network of 24 affiliates throughout the united states, reaching an average of 8,000 students and nearly 1,000 teaching fellows each of the last three years. Together, breakthrough is addressing the opportunity gap for students on their path to college and the teacher development gap by building a pathway for the next generation for educators. Our national team provides the strategic leadership and new program innovations driving breakthrough's national vision and mission, as well as the services, resources, and support that allow our 24 affiliates to focus on the most effective ways to deliver consistently excellent breakthrough programming that also reflects local community context.
$3,990,938 spentof which $425,000 as grants$306,971 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,990,938.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $7.8M (+63%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Vincent Marigna
CEO
Board chair
Patrick Talamantes
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $173k → $7.3M.
19 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 51% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 58% · 2022 20% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.3M
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 THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE
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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE: 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 THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE?
- THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,867,508 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,011,550). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $16,867,508 in grants to THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,011,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BREAKTHROUGH COLLABORATIVE 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 79 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