California State University Foundation
Long Beach, CA · EIN 95-6123757. Reported 81 grants totalling $10.3M to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For California State University Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T114).
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 78% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,500; the smallest was $5,132 and the largest $3,382,705. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of the Csu | Long Beach, CA | $8,019,460 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $417,261 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation | Fullerton, CA | $268,210 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foun | Carson, CA | $233,540 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Csusb Philanthropic Foundation | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $186,843 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Csula Auxiliary Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $156,521 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Csu Northridge | Northridge, CA | $105,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | San Francisco, CA | $84,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicano & Latino Youth Leadership Project | Sacramento, CA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| California State University - Northridge Foundation | Northridge, CA | $68,386 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Csu Bakersfield | Bakersfield, CA | $66,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Csu Stanislaus | Turlock, CA | $66,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Telacu Education Fountation | Commerce, CA | $60,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | San Luis Obispo, CA | $57,426 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sonoma State University | Rohnert Park, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities | San Antonio, TX | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Csu Fresno | Fresno, CA | $41,076 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation | Pomona, CA | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| California Coalition for Public Higher Education | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Great Minds in STEM | Commerce, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Pomona | Pomona, CA | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Csu Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| African American Male Educational Network and Development | Elk Grove, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University Foundation at Sacramento State | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Lulac Foundation Inc | Camarillo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Csu Channel Islands | Camarillo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Csu San Bernardino | San Bernardino, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Humboldt State | Arcata, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Museum of Latin American Art | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Diego State | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco State | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Jose State | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univassist Inc | Summit, NJ | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University Enterprises Inc | Sacramento, CA | $5,874 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | Fresno, CA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation | Arcata, CA | $5,132 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
19 of 39 (49%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Trustees of the Csu
$930,000 - TRANSFER FIRST PAYMENT OF COLLEGE FUTURES FOUNDATION TO SPA$775,000 - TRANSFER OF BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION GRANT FUNDS TO SPONSORED PROGRAMS$650,000 - TRANSFER LUMINA FOUNDATION GRANT TO SPA$575,000 - TRANSFER PLEDGE PAYMENT FROM GATES FOUNDATION TO SPA$198,000 - TRANSFER TO SPA FOR ECMC FOUNDATION GRANT FOR GRADUATION INITIATIVE$50,000 - TRANSFER TO SPA FOR SILVER GIVING FOUNDATION EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION$50,000 - TRANSFER TO SPA FOR HEISING-SIMONS EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIALIST GRANT$24,640 - TRANSFER TO SPA FOR DELL FOUNDATION EDQ CENTER DATA TPMD IMPLEMENTATION GRANT EXTENSION$130,065 - HOUSING ALLOWANCES - Csu Long Beach Research Foundation
MELLON ACLS GRANT TRANSFER TO CAMPUS - The University Corporation
TRANSFER TO CSUN SPA FOR EDISON MATH CURRICULUM AND PD GRANT - Csu Stanislaus
SCHUSTERMAN EMERGENCY GRANT - Sonoma State University
SONOMA STATE TEACHER TRAINING - Csu Fresno
SCHUSTERMAN EMERGENCY GRANT; 2021-22 INNOVATION MINIGRANTS AWARDS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $3,847,942 | $13,954 |
| 2022 | 12 | $3,042,436 | $22,758 |
| 2023 | 22 | $1,688,651 | $14,650 |
| 2024 | 21 | $1,735,400 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from California State University Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA, 90802.
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