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UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY

UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,328,752 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($3,500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$96M
Revenue FY2025
73
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$74M
Net assets
39/73 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 ($57M) Expenses 100 ($53M) Net assets 100 ($62M)2018 Revenue 106 ($61M) Expenses 108 ($58M) Net assets 106 ($66M)2019 Revenue 114 ($65M) Expenses 111 ($59M) Net assets 118 ($74M)2020 Revenue 107 ($61M) Expenses 116 ($62M) Net assets 119 ($74M)2021 Revenue 86 ($49M) Expenses 107 ($57M) Net assets 110 ($69M)2022 Revenue 127 ($73M) Expenses 157 ($83M) Net assets 107 ($67M)2023 Revenue 138 ($79M) Expenses 143 ($76M) Net assets 113 ($70M)2024 Revenue 142 ($82M) Expenses 159 ($84M) Net assets 114 ($71M)2025 Revenue 166 ($96M) Expenses 168 ($89M) Net assets 119 ($74M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (168)Net assets (119)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.

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Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% · 2024 27% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$4.4M
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$3.2M
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$6.4M
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$458k
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$7.7M
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$11M
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$2.9M
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$2.6M
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$6.6M
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1.9
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.9M.

15 of 73 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: $2.4M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY raised.

From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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

UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY.

23%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 60% · 2019 46% · 2020 29% · 2021 23% · 2022 62% · 2023 51%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

38% of UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

73% of UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY's grant income comes from California funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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. Your 73 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125.6M on record.

Federal$125.6M
grants $125.4Mcontracts $112k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$75.1M
  • Department of Agriculture$13.6M
  • National Science Foundation$13.5M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$10.5M
  • Department of Commerce$8.6M
  • Department of the Interior$2.8M

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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY

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

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
13%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • California State University Monterey Bay · exempt
  • Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay · exempt
  • Otter Student Union at California State University Monterey Bay · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: 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 UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY?
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY (California) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,328,752 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($3,500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY have?
IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $15,328,752 in grants to UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY?
The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY 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 73funders 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