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San Francisco, CA · Private foundation

Blue Shield of California Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$48MPhilanthropy$41MCivil Rights$26MHuman Services$25MCommunity Improvement$17MEducation$15MCrime & Legal$10MArts & Culture$9.8MOther$0
02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant-size mix · FY2017–FY2024

FY17
24%
38%
38%
$28.3M
FY18
43%
55%
$18.6M
FY20
40%
60%
$41.1M
FY21
25%
74%
$29.8M
FY22
19%
81%
$42.2M
FY23
24%
75%
$18.3M
FY24
38%
59%
$16.6M
Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2017, 38% of its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024, 59%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PREVENTION INSTITUTE$1,500,000
MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS$1,000,000
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT$740,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$609,000
FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC$525,000
CONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ALLIANCE$500,000
JENESSE CENTER INC$500,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$450,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$450,000
BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE$400,000
CENTER FOR YOUNG WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT (YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER)$400,000
MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS$400,000
TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION$400,000
VISION Y COMPROMISO$400,000
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT$375,000
02The need
04

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $800k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR GIRLS: $800k → 7%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $1.8M → 21%WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP: $550k → 7%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 5%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $1.6M → 9%TIDES CENTER: $2.0M → 1%SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $1.0M → 12%EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $700k → 15%FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $750k → 1%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $609k → 35%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $1.0M → 9%SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $750k → 12%CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $700k → 38%JENESSE CENTER INC: $602k → 16%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 5%CONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ALLIANCE: $560k → 14%RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY: $700k → 21%POLICYLINK: $600k → 21%PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 21%PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $550k → 21%FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $900k → 1%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 27%SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $864k → 12%CATALYST CALIFORNIA: $800k → 13%HEALING TOGETHER: $600k → 13%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $800k → 29%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $650k → 12%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $1.4M → 21%ASIAN PACIFIC POLICY AND PLANNING COUNCIL: $600k → 33%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $575k → 21%PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $550k → 21%VALORUS: $600k → 25%PREVENTION INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 21%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $650k → 21%DEAFHOPE: $700k → 21%PREVENTION INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 21%GOBEE GROUP LLC: $564k → 21%CALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES: $714k → 25%PICO CALIFORNIA: $600k → 25%TIDES CENTER: $3.3M → 1%PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $601k → 21%SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $740k → 12%FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $1.4M → 1%PREVENTION INSTITUTE: $750k → 21%FREEFROM: $600k → 8%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $670k → 21%VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND: $1.0M → 4%0%20%40%70%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

  • Adults without health insurance:reaches 42.9% in some neighborhoods (typically 8.5%)(CDC, modeled)
  • Food access:240 of 5646 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Blue Shield of California Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Blue Shield of California Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164M · 142 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

142 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of its 146 multi-year relationships, 27 repeat the same amount every year (10% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

It also reports $725k approved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV): grants committed but not yet paid.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142
429

Total granted

$164M
$30M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+68%

Still filing today

89%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Public Health Institute
    7× · 2017–2023 · $12M · revenue +130%
  • WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA
    6× · 2017–2023 · $7.9M · revenue +4%
  • Prevention Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • VR
    VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
  • California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
    one grant, 2020 · $747k · revenue +2%
  • CN
    COMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $727k · revenue -17% · 34% of their budget

    CompassPoint Nonprofit Services has spent more than five decades at the intersection of nonprofit practice and social change, growing from a Bay Area resource center into a recognized provider of leadership development, consulting, and training for community-based organizations.

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

they say it reaches here……few show it gets hereMUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVASFAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INCTODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRISFREEFROMCENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACECHILD CARE LAW CENTERCHILDREN NOWEL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTERKOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES INCHuman Services1/9 flowerNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INCINSURE THE UNINSURED PROJECTALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATIONSBLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVEVOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUNDALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATIONCALIFORNIA PAN-ETHNIC HEALTH NETWORKPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESCOMMUNITIES LIFTING COMMUNITIESORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESSHealth1/12 flowerUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREAALLIANCE FOR HOPE INTERNATIONALTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWERASIAN AMERICAN FUTURESGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEESSILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONASIAN PACIFIC FUNDSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERSCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONSPhilanthropy1/10 flowerVISION Y COMPROMISOCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTERSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTERGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONSCHOOL HEALTH CLINICS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATIONINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURECHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE & SCIENCEEducation0/8 flowerURBAN HABITATDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAREINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATIONCOMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICESPOLICYLINKNONPROFIT FINANCE FUNDNDN COLLECTIVE INCCALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIESUNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIACommunity Improvement2/11 flower

Of 50 organizations, 5 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

How this is measured
Read from 50 of the 315 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.
case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

Mujeres Unidas y Activas

Conviction

An early bet that kept compounding

Founded in 1990 out of research documenting the lives of undocumented Latina immigrant women in the Bay Area, Mujeres Unidas y Activas has grown into a three-site organization whose revenue has compounded at a 21% CAGR since California Physicians' Service Foundation's first grant in 2017, with net assets increasing sixfold alongside $5,095,441 in support across six funding cycles. In 2024 alone, MUA's coalition organizers made over 290,000 outreach contacts with domestic workers, trained more than 15,000 workers in labor protections and Know-Your-Rights workshops, and recovered nearly half a million dollars in stolen wages through DWEOP.

6× · 2017–2024
Funded
$5.1M
Granted in total
20%
Peak share of budget
+131%
Their revenue since

HEALING TOGETHER

Funded once · graduated

One grant, one clear inflection point

California Physicians' Service Foundation made a single $600,000 grant to Healing Together in 2023, at the time representing the full scale of the organization's annual budget, and in the period since, revenue has grown 163% and net assets have increased 3.9x. In 2024, Healing Together and its country programs in Nepal and Uganda together trained over 2,388 educators, activists, and community leaders, reaching more than 56,500 survivors of trauma and violence, while its Nepali-language mental health podcast surpassed 200,000 viewers.

At first grant · 2023
$571k
their revenue
once
Latest filing · 2024
$1.5M+163%
grown on its own, no further grants
2024 · what they did next

Healing Together trained 442 educators, climate and social-justice activists, and frontline leaders in trauma-informed mental health care in 2024, reaching over 3,500 survivors of trauma and violence.

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How this is measured
Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.
04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Fernando Community Hospital

Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.

Health
2
La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc

La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.

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3
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
4
Valley Health Team Inc

Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…

Health
5
Complete Care Community Health Center I

The organization's mission is to eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for underserved communities in california.

Health
6
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
7
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
8
Chac Fka Community Health Awareness Council

Chac seeks to improve lives and strengthen communities through access to comprehensive and culturally responsive mental health services in northern santa clara county.

Health
9
Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley

To help ensure the survival and healing of american indians and alaskan natives and the greater community by providing high quality, comprehensive health care and cultural services.

Health
10
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health
11
Cares Community Health

As one community, we empower all people through equitable, quality, patient-centered care.

Health
12
United Health Centers of the San Joaquin

The organization is committed to the lifetime wellness of the communities by providing accessible, comprehensive quality health care to everyone with compassion and respect, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Health Care Safety-Net Institute; the most unlike its peers is Fannie E Rippel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network

547 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 547 of the 613 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
137
Early backer (in before they grew)
531/547
Grantees still filing
437/547
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $7,914,000 · OtherWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIAFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5,400,000 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $4,244,833 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT…THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $4,059,876 · OtherPrevention Institute: $6,644,767 · OtherPrevention Institute+73 more: $48,368,822 · Other+73 moreTIDES CENTER: $9,439,871 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERMujeres Unidas y Activas: $5,095,441 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y Ac…Jenesse Center Inc: $2,094,390 · Human ServicesJenesse Center IncLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,725,000 · Human ServicesFreefrom: $1,585,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,370,000 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $1,316,000 · Human Services+26 more: $11,677,123 · Human Services+26 morePublic Health Institute: $12,484,010 · HealthPublic Health Ins…SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $5,256,320 · HealthSIERRA HEALTH FOU…California Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $1,477,250 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,261,500 · HealthHEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP: $1,150,000 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $1,150,000 · Health+18 more: $9,385,006 · Health+18 moreSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $3,250,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Vall…THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,925,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER F…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1,900,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CAL…HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,834,050 · PhilanthropyHENRY J KAIS…GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $1,517,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS …CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,290,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA C…FANNIE E RIPPEL FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 · PhilanthropyDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $850,000 · PhilanthropyNorthern California Grantmakers: $837,000 · Philanthropy+16 more: $6,750,000 · Philanthropy+16 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $4,318,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINK: $2,850,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $960,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA: $875,000 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 · Community ImprovementCOMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES: $726,995 · Community ImprovementRESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY: $700,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $600,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Habitat Program: $550,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $2,025,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,682,875 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $1,295,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,251,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $1,195,000 · EducationVISION Y COMPROMISO: $1,130,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $1,000,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE: $771,638 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $525,000 · Education+4 more: $1,130,560 · EducationCALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $4,600,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $1,850,000 · Civil RightsCalMatters: $1,830,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $1,250,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $725,000 · Civil RightsIMPACT JUSTICE: $550,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $500,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $400,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $260,000 · Civil Rights
Other$76,632,298Human Services$35,802,825Health$32,164,086Philanthropy$22,403,050Community Improvement$14,404,995Education$12,581,073Civil Rights$11,965,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPublic Health Institute: $12,484,010 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $9,439,871 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $7,914,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPrevention Institute: $6,644,767 over 8y, 17% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5,400,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: $5,256,320 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $5,095,441 over 6y, 20% of budgetCALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $4,600,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $4,318,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,682,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $3,250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $2,850,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetVALORUS: $2,280,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetAlliance for Girls: $2,273,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $2,094,390 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetMy Sisters House: $2,045,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,925,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1,900,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $1,850,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,850,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,834,050 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCalMatters: $1,830,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,725,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetPICO California: $1,625,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFreefrom: $1,585,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $1,517,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $1,500,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $1,477,250 over 4y, 30% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,370,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWEAVE INC: $1,350,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $1,316,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $1,295,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,290,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $1,261,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,251,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $1,250,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $1,195,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP: $1,150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $1,150,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetVISION Y COMPROMISO: $1,130,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCOUNTY SUPERVISORS ASSOCIATION OF CALIF: $1,111,648 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $1,100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetJSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $1,080,314 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $1,030,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $1,000,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetVOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 38% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Prevention Institute ↗
  • Who funds FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
  • Who funds VALORUS ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Girls ↗
  • Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds My Sisters House ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY J KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CalMatters ↗
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  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VALUES WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM ↗
  • Who funds California Pan-Ethnic Health Network ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
55 internal · 3 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

CSAC works jointly with CHEAC and other county organizations to issue coordinated statements on state budget and legislative matters. It is one of 55 direct ties among 81 of its grantees, who also cluster around 3 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

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Grantees connected
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Grantee↔grantee ties
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Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
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External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

43 shown · 31 ties
FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $1.5M granted · 16 linksORGANIZACION EN CALIFORNIA DE LIDERES CAMPESINAS INC: $300k granted · 3 linksVALORUS: $1.7M granted · 5 linksCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $1.6M granted · 6 linksASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $300k granted · 3 linksKOREAN RESOURCE CENTER: $200k granted · 14 linksCALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBANINDIAN HEALTH INC: $202k granted · 4 linksASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: $624k granted · 4 linksNORTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $757k granted · 4 linksACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $200k granted · 3 linksCHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $500k granted · 3 linksCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $1.0M granted · 3 linksCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO: $50k granted · 5 linksMUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $5.1M granted · 17 linksMUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVASURBAN HABITAT: $550k granted · 6 linksTHE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $200k granted · 6 linksCALMATTERS: $1.8M granted · 5 linksCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ALLIANCE: $2.0M granted · 11 linksCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTI…PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $11M granted · 6 linksPUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTEFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $4.0M granted · 7 linksFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCESOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1.7M granted · 4 linksSAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100k granted · 3 linksCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $1.1M granted · 8 linksASIAN AMERICAN FUTURES: $500k granted · 3 linksCALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK: $747k granted · 3 linksGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $1.4M granted · 6 linksMY SISTERS HOUSE: $335k granted · 5 linksEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $550k granted · 5 linksFREEFROM: $1.3M granted · 4 linksCOMPASSPOINT NONPROFIT SERVICES: $727k granted · 4 linksWESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY: $425k granted · 11 linksCALIFORNIA PAN-ETHNIC HEALTH NETWORK: $1.5M granted · 4 linksPREVENTION INSTITUTE: $5.9M granted · 4 linksPREVENTION INSTITUTECALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST: $110k granted · 4 linksALLIANCE FOR GIRLS: $2.0M granted · 13 linksDEAFHOPE: $720k granted · 4 linksCALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $3.9M granted · 8 linksCALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO…WATSONVILLE LAW CENTER: $150k granted · 3 linksCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $200k granted · 7 linksCALIFORNIA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES: $1.0M granted · 8 linksPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $1.1M granted · 4 linksRAINBOW SERVICES LTD: $361k granted · 3 linksBlue Shield of California Foundation: named by 3 granteesBlue Shield of California…
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Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 117Coalition 80Affiliation 33Funding 8Fiscal sponsorship 3Merger / affiliation 3Referral network 1
How this is measured
Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.
Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Community Improvement, Crime & Legal, Education, Employment, Health, Human Services, Philanthropy, Public Benefit, Unclassified, Youth Development

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Women's Foundation of…California Healthcare…The California Wellne…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…California Primary Ca…Essential Access Heal…Sunlight GivingWeingart FoundationSierra Health Foundat…Direct ReliefDelta Dental Communit…
Women's Foundation of CaliforniaCA240.6× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Women's Foundation of California · California Healthcare Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · California Primary Care Association · Essential Access Health · Sunlight Giving · Weingart Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Direct Relief · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Shield of California Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Shield of California Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Willamette Partnership: 76% of income from government
  • Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Capital Link Inc: 18% of income from government
  • National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Evidence for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Blue Shield of California Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024 (period ending 2024-12-31), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object 202512739349101051 · view filing · blueshieldcafoundation.org

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