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California school foundations

There are 1,684 organizations supporting a single school or educational institution in California. Combined, these Californian school foundations employ 7,150 people, earn more than $3 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $17 billion.
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School foundations by major California cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
Los Angeles
 
539
 
$1,179,833,463
Riverside
 
214
 
$23,051,506
San Francisco
 
147
 
$1,375,265,777
San Diego
 
146
 
$511,901,314
Sacramento
 
112
 
$118,326,004
San Jose
 
74
 
$27,596,116
Fresno
 
43
 
$17,328,420
Bakersfield
 
35
 
$691,330
Stockton
 
34
 
$2,073,632
Santa Rosa
 
29
 
$893,318
Showing 10 of 25 metros

Job trends for California school foundations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
233
1-10
 
41
11-25
 
14
26-100
 
10
101 to 1,000
 
3
1,000+
 
2
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Sizes of school foundations in California

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
258
$250k to $1M
 
76
$1M to $5M
 
63
$5M to $25M
 
29
$25M to $100M
 
6
$100M+
 
5
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Directory of school foundations in California

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1-20 of 1,684

The Fuller Foundation

Since 1987, The Fuller Foundation has helped Christians reach their financial and giving goals, and support Fuller Seminary. The Foundation is a Christian philanthropic services organization facilitating charitable giving for friends of the Seminary.
Revenue
$12.2m
Assets
$203.6m
Employees
29
EIN
95-4124436
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Klare Holdings

Klare Holdings develops and maintains school facilities for the benefit of KIPP SoCal Public Schools in Los Angeles.
Revenue
$21.8m
Assets
$291.0m
Employees
0
EIN
26-3878865
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Silicon Schools Fund

The Silicon Schools Fund is a non-profit investment fund supporting the creation of next generation of personalized learning schools in the Bay Area of California.
Revenue
$6.7m
Assets
$26.0m
Employees
5
EIN
45-4860788
IRS type
501(c)(3)

CSULB 49er Foundation

The CSULB 49er Foundation advocates for the people and programs at California State University, Long Beach through the management of private support and the stewardship of donors.
Revenue
$23.6m
Assets
$165.6m
Employees
0
EIN
45-2163910
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Harbor Day Endowment Corporation

Harbor Day Endowment Corporation is an education single organization support located in Corona Del Mar, CA that provides financial support to Harbor Day School to fulfill its mission.
Revenue
$10.8m
Assets
$22.6m
Employees
0
EIN
33-0358815
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ucla Foundation

The UCLA Foundation raises and invests donations for UCLA from individuals, corporations, and other organizations to advance the institution.
Revenue
$902.8m
Assets
$5.5b
Employees
0
EIN
95-2250801
IRS type
501(c)(3)

University of California San Francisco Foundation (UCSF)

The University of California San Francisco Foundation supports the groundbreaking research, leadership training, and compassionate care that happen every day at the University of California, San Francisco.
Revenue
$1.1b
Assets
$4.1b
Employees
0
EIN
94-2829914
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services (CSUFASC)

CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) is a multi-purpose nonprofit organization created by the university in 1959 to oversee all the auxiliary enterprises on campus.
Revenue
$64.9m
Assets
$119.5m
Employees
2,140
EIN
95-2081258
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Friends of South Central Los Angeles Regional Center

Friends of South Central Los Angeles Regional Center is dedicated to making an investment in people. What they yield from their investment are empowered consumers and families who are more knowledgeable and better able to advocate for their loved ones.
Revenue
$7.4m
Assets
$84.5m
Employees
4
EIN
20-5974027
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Shine Bc-La

Shine Bc-La provides affordable housing and innovative supportive models to vulnerable populations, partnering with LA County to streamline capital improvements.
Revenue
$205.7m
Assets
$76.5m
Employees
0
EIN
84-3947799
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation

Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation is responsible for the investment, and management of philanthropic gifts designated for the University.
Revenue
$24.9m
Assets
$198.1m
Employees
0
EIN
33-0567945
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Orange Coast College Foundation

The Orange Coast College Foundation promotes educational programs, supports marine education, and funds arts, athletics, and visual arts programs.
Revenue
$7.8m
Assets
$48.4m
Employees
0
EIN
33-0071349
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California Calls Education Fund

The California Calls Education Fund conducts community organizing and integrates voter engagement programs to educate underserved California communities about policy solutions addressing public services, good government, fair taxes and economic growth.
Revenue
$8.2m
Assets
$18.5m
Employees
29
EIN
46-2301623
IRS type
501(c)(3)

San Diego State University Research Foundation (SDSURF)

San Diego State University Research Foundation's mission is to support and further the research, education and community service objectives of San Diego State University.
Revenue
$212.4m
Assets
$283.3m
Employees
3,547
EIN
95-6042721
IRS type
501(c)(3)

California State University San Marcos Foundation

The CSUSM Foundation supports and promotes the university's mission by cultivating and maximizing private charitable investment, stewarding resources carefully, creating and nurturing meaningful regional relationships and partnerships.
Revenue
$7.6m
Assets
$50.9m
Employees
0
EIN
80-0390564
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library is a member-supported, nonprofit organization that fundraises, advocates and works with partners and volunteers to provide critical support for the San Francisco Public Library and the Bay Area Community.
Revenue
$5.4m
Assets
$10.1m
Employees
24
EIN
94-6085452
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Center for Cultural Power (CELEF)

CEL Education Fund supports Citizen Engagement Laboratory and other nonprofits that align with their mission by incubating high-impact, tech-savvy programs, and by making strategic, restricted grants.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$13.0m
Employees
56
EIN
45-3154473
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Manhattan Beach Education Foundation (MBEF)

Manhattan Beach Education Foundation is a community driven fund raising organization, which supplements state funding for programs that inspire learning, enrich teaching, promote innovation and academic excellence in the public schools of Manhattan Beach.
Revenue
$8.5m
Assets
$9.6m
Employees
10
EIN
95-3881166
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Ucla Investment Company

Ucla Investment Company manages over $3.8 billion in assets, supporting UCLA's educational mission through professional stewardship and strategic investment policies.
Revenue
$8.2m
Assets
$5.2m
Employees
15
EIN
45-2586739
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bulldog Foundation

Fresno State Bulldog Foundation was created in 1933 to help Fresno State and their vital resource of youth become future leaders in family, community, business, government, arts, education and athletics.
Revenue
$6.7m
Assets
$12.2m
Employees
10
EIN
94-6080933
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "B11: Education Single Organization Support" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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