Cal Poly Corporation
San Luis Obispo, CA · EIN 95-1648180. Reported 143 grants totalling $41.5M to 67 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Cal Poly Corporation, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B43) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 67 distinct organizations, with 71% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $38,959. Half of what it reported fell between $18,841 and $94,079; the smallest was $5,286 and the largest $11.6M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
4 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $4,131,995 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Polytechnic State University | San Luis Obispo, CA | $29.3M | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | San Luis Obispo, CA | $2,001,614 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| San Luis Obiispo County Community College District Dba Cuesta Community Col | San Luis Obispo, CA | $1,361,059 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Allan Hancock College | Santa Maria, CA | $1,252,571 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $1,210,945 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Miriam Hospital | Providence, RI | $677,346 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chico State Enterprises | Chico, CA | $444,831 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $405,349 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Paso Robles Joint Unified School District | Paso Robles, CA | $381,652 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| California Strawberry Commission | Watsonville, CA | $340,376 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Guadalupe Union School District | Guadalupe, CA | $305,786 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Coleridge Initiative Inc | Washington, DC | $221,174 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $173,091 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $156,490 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $151,943 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $138,687 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS | $135,635 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $127,117 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $123,732 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Wakish Pllc | Wapato, WA | $121,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Ames, IA | $120,855 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $118,795 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $114,865 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| UC Merced | Merced, CA | $94,878 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $94,491 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital | Riverside, RI | $91,599 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $91,292 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | $91,257 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Parkview Hospital Inc | Fort Wayne, IN | $81,633 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Superior Statistical Research | Sioux Center, IA | $80,338 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quansight LLC | Austin, TX | $76,870 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Era Economics | Davis, CA | $76,420 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| California State University Fresno Foundation | Fresno, CA | $74,045 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Conservation District | Atascadero, CA | $74,033 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marine Mammal Center | Sausalito, CA | $72,366 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westfield State College | Westfield, MA | $70,841 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $70,008 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $57,064 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $54,287 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $53,386 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mississippi State University | Ms State, MS | $52,951 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m | College Station, TX | $51,994 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $49,969 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Arkansas - Division of Agriculture | Fayetteville, AR | $46,918 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Univesity of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $44,831 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Educopia Institute Inc | Atlanta, GA | $44,022 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Portland State University | Portland, OR | $43,799 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Industry Initiatives for Science and Math Education | Santa Clara, CA | $43,412 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $43,234 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Northwest Kern Rcd | Bakersfield, CA | $35,280 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoma State University | Rohnert Park, CA | $31,312 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| California State University East Bay Foundation Inc | Hayward, CA | $29,101 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Heritage University | Toppenish, WA | $23,128 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $20,988 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the California State University Long Beach | Long Beach, CA | $19,151 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $17,891 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $17,377 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina Greesburg | Greensboro, NC | $17,172 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc | Pomona, CA | $16,387 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $15,845 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $13,655 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tehama County Rcd | Red Bluff, CA | $12,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center | Falmouth, MA | $11,251 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $10,087 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Coastal Oceans | Portland, OR | $9,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $7,838 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
46 of 67 (69%) 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.
- California Polytechnic State University
SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY - Csu Long Beach Research Foundation
SUBAWARD UNDER SPONSORED PROGRAMS GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 29 | $8,707,654 | $55,178 |
| 2021 | 27 | $5,488,074 | $36,810 |
| 2022 | 39 | $14.4M | $34,947 |
| 2023 | 48 | $12.9M | $37,540 |
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
91% 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 $38,959 -- 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 Cal Poly Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 42 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 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: 1 Grand Ave Bldg 15, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407.
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