How much did CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR grant in FY2024?

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR reported 4 grants totaling $1,112,605 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR based?

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR is based in CA.

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR

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· Public charity

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR

To grow a thriving ecosystem of support for underserved entrepreneurs where all entrepreneurs have access to the resources they need to succeed, creating family economic mobility and community prosperity.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$575kCommunity Improvement$517kHuman Services$116kPublic Benefit$60kEmployment$44kInternational$39kArts & Culture$37kOther$340k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

llreducationcapital technicaljusticecorporationcreateentrepreneurship

2022

sba primeprime languagelanguage culturalcultural accesshared payment

2023

loansmoderatepalmbeachleveling playingplaying fieldfield procurement

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

WORKING SOLUTIONS$20,000
PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES$20,000
ACCESS CAPITAL$20,000
ACCESSITY$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$678k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +181% since the first grant, against +141% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$678k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+181%

+141%

Still filing today

88%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

COOK Alliance
2× · 2021–2023 · $575k · revenue +388%
PC
Pathway Capital Funding
3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +148% · 44% of their budget
A
Accessity
4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +34%

Funded once

ME
Mission Economic Developmentgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +103%
EP
El Pajaro Community Developgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +180%
OE
Omniworks Economic Developmen
one grant, 2021 · $75k · 79% of their budget

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Valley Small Business Development

Providing capital, management assistance and other financial resources, including loan services, personnel, and business education to small business entrepreneurs in economically disadvantaged areas, and thereby stimulating economic…

Community Improvement

Economic and Community Development

Ecdi serves the needs of disadvantaged low-income, low-wealth entrepreneurs through a multi-tiered approach that combines access to affordable capital, with wraparound small business development services, allowing underserved entrepreneurs…

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Superior California Economic Development Inc

Provide assistance in economic development planning, coordination, & implementation and provide small business training, counseling, & finance assistance with the goal of creating stable, long-term employment opportunities in the private…

Community Improvement

Economic Development Collaborative-

To promote local economic development, administer financial and loan programs, provide assistance in the retention and development of local business, facilitate cluster development, provide technical assistance and training, operate a…

Community Improvement

South County Economic Development Council

Job Creation in South San Diego County

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Fresno County Economic Opportunities

A community action agency whose mission is to humanely focus all available resources to empower low-income families and individuals working towards the skills, knowledge,and motivation for self-sufficiency. human services and…

Human Services

Metro Equity Collabotrative

To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses

Education

Southwest Fresno Development Corporation

To lift up and restore pride in the sw fresno community through providing pathways to entrepreneurship and homeownership, creating safer, cleaner, and vibrant neighborhoods where residents thrive.

—

Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

SBE Council's mission is to promote entrepreneurship and protect small businesses. Through advocacy, education, and research SBE Council works to strengthen the ecosystem for startups and small business growth. SBE Council integrates…

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Economic Development Corp of Shasta Co

to create primary industry employment, resulting in higher wages and added wealth for residents.

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Council for Entrepreneurial Development

To connect entrepreneurial companies with high value resources to accelerate business growth.

Community Improvement

Community Enterprise Development

Community enterprise development services' mission is to support the american dream of financial self-sufficiency, by assisting refugees, immigrants, and those from underserved communities in metro denver who desire to own or strengthen…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Pajaro Community Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Open Doors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/30

the rest of the field

12%

22,289/186,948

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/29

Grantees still filing

25/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$575,000Community Improvement$517,000Other$340,000Human Services$115,500Public Benefit$60,000Employment$44,000International$39,000Arts & Culture$37,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mufg Union Bank Foundation AgWI28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The San Francisco Foundation · National Association for Latino · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Citi Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Omniworks Economic Developmen.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824633544 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Omniworks Economic Developmen, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to California Association For?

Find your warmest path to California Association For through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Association For?

More from the funding graph

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Association For?

More from the funding graph