California · Nonprofit
THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,984,985 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC ($1,642,380). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $67M
What The University Corporation does
Mission
On behalf of california state university, northridge, The University Corporation performs a number of activities including operating the campus bookstore, food services, vending operations, administration of various funds and grants, managing campus faculty/staff housing program, off-campus research and administrative building, as well as the licensing of campus facilities, logos and trademarks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants and contracts administration - The University Corporation provides post-award administration of sponsored programs. Working with the university's office of research and sponsored projects, the corporation sponsored programs division provides support to principal investigators and project staff with interpretation of regulations, processing of expenses, payroll, human resources, risk management, financial reporting, management of audits and other services in support of externally funded programs. After deducting all direct costs of the sponsored programs department, a reserve allocation and administration costs, The University Corporation sets aside the remaining indirect cost recovery funds into a reserve account.
$41,130,233 spentof which $8,225,870 as grants$46,310,058 earned by the program81% of program spendingAuxiliary services, food services, bookstore commissions, real estate rentals - see schedule o
$8,911,487 spent$10,138,248 earned by the program18% of program spendingUniversity projects - see schedule o
$769,354 spentof which $769,354 as grants$969,851 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,811,074.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $67M to $75M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Erika Beck
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $305k → $375k.
4 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $1.7M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Campus - University Park Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
81% 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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 34% · 2019 69% · 2020 61% · 2021 33% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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
17% of THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
67% of THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $813k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $195.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$75.8M
- National Science Foundation$48.4M
- Department of Education$30.4M
- Department of Defense$11.7M
- Department of Agriculture$9.9M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$8.3M
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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- California State University Northridge · exempt
- North Campus - University Park Development Corporation · exempt
- California State University Northridge Foundation · exempt
- Associated Students Inc · exempt
- University Student Union · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: 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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION?
- THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,984,985 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC ($1,642,380). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $6,984,985 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION?
- COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,642,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION 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 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing