The University Corporation
Northridge, CA · EIN 95-1992732. Reported 126 grants totalling $8,097,367 to 62 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 52% 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 $29,451. Half of what it reported fell between $12,103 and $52,279; the smallest was $5,029 and the largest $1,436,826. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California State University Northridge | Northridge, CA | $1,436,826 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| California State University Northridge | Northridge, CA | $1,318,310 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $856,795 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Mississippi | University, MS | $393,696 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Santa Clarita Community College | Santa Clarita, CA | $347,930 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $324,680 | 8 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | $186,677 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | Oxford, MS | $165,460 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $158,358 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Community College District - Mission College | Sylmar, CA | $147,217 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc | Pomona, CA | $146,144 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $139,950 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $135,162 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Los Angeles Mission College Foundation | Sylmar, CA | $129,863 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Csula Auxiliary Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $127,925 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation | Arcata, CA | $126,563 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles Valley College | Valley Glen, CA | $122,023 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County | Glendale, CA | $109,918 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northridge Hospital Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $106,503 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $104,558 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pierce College Foundation | Puyallup, WA | $102,980 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| California State University San Marcos Corporation | San Marcos, CA | $99,782 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ventura County Community College District Moorpark College | Camarillo, CA | $90,756 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | New York, NY | $83,505 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glendale Community College | Glendale, CA | $75,911 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Colorado Denver | Aurora, CO | $73,306 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $63,762 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m University - Centraltexas Foundation | Killeen, TX | $62,508 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $61,893 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| California State University Channel Islands Foundation | Camarillo, CA | $57,749 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ventura County Community College District Moorpark College | Camarillo, CA | $50,378 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge, CA | $46,108 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Psychological Association | Washington, DC | $44,079 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tarzana Treatment Centers Inc | Tarzana, CA | $44,018 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | Washington, DC | $39,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Search to Involve Pilipino Americans | Los Angeles, CA | $37,849 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rancho Research Institute | Downey, CA | $37,404 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tataviam Land Conservancy | San Fernando, CA | $32,575 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pacific University | Forest Grove, OR | $31,044 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $28,272 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Honeywell International Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $26,648 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pasadena City College | Pasadena, CA | $22,973 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Thai Community Development Center | Los Angeles, CA | $21,792 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $21,458 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The University of Alabama in Huntsville | Huntsville, AL | $20,498 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Fernando Community Health Center | San Fernando, CA | $19,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Fernando Community Hospital | San Fernando, CA | $19,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas A&m University | College Station, TX | $18,912 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University Channel Islands | Camarillo, CA | $18,464 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $17,685 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeast Valley Health Corporation | San Fernando, CA | $17,053 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Regents of the University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $16,059 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Econstruct USA LLC | Ohama, NE | $10,996 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vision Y Compromiso | Los Angeles, CA | $10,968 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $10,217 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $9,146 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ventura County Community College District - Ventura College | Camarillo, CA | $7,798 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Par | Carson, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians | San Fernando, CA | $6,874 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oxnard Downtowners Foundation Inc | Oxnard, CA | $5,534 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc | Pomona, CA | $5,355 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
30 of 62 (48%) 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 State University Northridge
TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY - University of California Santa Barbara
RESEARCH GRANT - SUB-RECIPIENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 62 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 | 32 | $2,201,150 | $34,467 |
| 2021 | 30 | $1,072,928 | $23,447 |
| 2022 | 31 | $2,509,754 | $24,895 |
| 2023 | 33 | $2,313,535 | $35,000 |
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
76% 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $29,451 -- 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 The University 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 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 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: 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330.
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