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California Association of Realtors

Shape, promote and protect an environment for the entire real estate industry, one in which california realtors can succeed in meeting the real property needs of consumers.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$37MCivil Rights$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$477kEducation$380kPhilanthropy$302kMembership Benefit$262kCrime & Legal$235kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 64 grants below total $3,393,330, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,997,014 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $603,684 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $773k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$1,300,000
CITRUS VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$152,681
NORTH BAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$110,771
ORANGE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$102,402
SOUTH BAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$96,435
SOUTHLAND REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$88,514
PACIFIC WEST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$87,725
PLACER COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$82,883
GREATER LOS ANGELES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$71,446
FRESNO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$69,830
GREATER SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$67,604
TRI-COUNTIES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$58,425
CONEJO VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$57,917
SOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$57,607
GREATER DOWNEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS$50,930
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INGLEWOOD ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $14k → 14%TULARE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $12k → 18%MERCED COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $8k → 19%INGLEWOOD BOARD OF REALTORS: $10k → 14%TULARE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $7k → 18%MERCED COUNTY AOR: $6k → 19%TULARE COUNTY AOR: $6k → 18%CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP: $550k → 14%CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP: $373k → 14%CALIFORNIA FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP: $371k → 14%CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP INC: $336k → 14%CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNERSHIP: $250k → 14%CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP: $200k → 14%0%20%40%50%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 75 repeat orgs$33M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
50

Total granted

$13M
$31M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+7%

Still filing today

59%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +73% · 100% of their budget
  • OC
    Orange County Realtors
    7× · 2018–2024 · $817k · revenue +41%
  • PW
    PACIFIC WEST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $610k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HF
    Homeownership for Families and Tax Savings for Seniors
    one grant, 2020 · $16M · revenue -51%
  • YO
    Yes on 19 Coalition of Firefighters Realtors Seniors Disabled Homeowners
    one grant, 2020 · $14M · 57% of their budget
  • CH
    CAR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -8% · 66% of their budget
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.

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 Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Calaveras County Association of Realtors

The trusted source for real estate information, education, and services. To support professional and ethical real estate practices. To proect personal property rights.

Community Improvement
3
Greater Los Angeles Chapter Society of Industrial & Office Relations

Provide information on real estate

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4
Sacramento Association of Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc

To support the charitable activities of the sacramento association of realtors, inc., with other real estate professionals to address the housing needs, community-based programs and underserved communities and to carry on other charitable…

Human Services
5
Colorado Association of Realtors

To be the collective voice for real estate and consumer property rights, and to advance colorado realtors as industry leaders in knowledge, ethics, and professionalism.

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6
Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee Inc

The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.

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7
Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors

To serve our members by providing and promoting educational, business planning, governmental advocacy, and other appropriate/relevant programs and services to enhance members' freedom and ability to successfully and competently conduct…

Community Improvement
8
Valley Board of Realtors Inc

The mission of the valley board of realtors is to provide member support, education, and leadership in the pursuit of professional excellence.

Community Improvement
9
Cache Valley Association of Realtors

To serve real estate brokers and salespeople in the cache valley area by developing a positive image and by sharing ideas and information.

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10
Snohomish County-Camano Association of Realtors

Representing real estate agents and brokers in Snohomish County and Camano Island, Washington, the Association provides its members with resources, education, and support to help them excel in their careers and serve their clients…

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11
California Apartment Association

The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…

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12
Oklahoma Association of Realtors

The oklahoma association of realtors connects real estate professionals across the state by providing comprehensive professional resources, maintaining the highest ethical standards and giving realtors a unified voice in shaping oklahoma…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yolo County Board of Realtors; the most unlike its peers is All About Sacramento Community Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 135 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Homeownership for Families and Tax Savings for Seniors: $16,190,341 · OtherHomeownership for Families and Tax Savings for SeniorsYes on 19 Coalition of Firefighters Realtors Seniors Disabled Homeowners: $13,500,000 · OtherYes on 19 Coalition of Firefighters Realtors Seniors Disabled HomeownersCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $1,300,000 · Other+97 more: $7,974,209 · Other+97 morePACIFIC WEST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $610,395 · Community ImprovementBAKERSFIELD ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $263,708 · Community ImprovementWest San Gabriel Valley Realtors: $236,999 · Community ImprovementTRI-COUNTIES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS AND SUBSIDIARIES: $213,324 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $195,162 · Community ImprovementSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $165,898 · Community ImprovementPacific Southwest Association of Realtors: $135,521 · Community ImprovementCONEJO SIMI MOORPARK ASSOC OF REALTORS: $127,796 · Community ImprovementORANGE COAST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $102,001 · Community ImprovementSAN MATEO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $83,331 · Community Improvement+12 more: $278,986 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP INC: $2,080,300 · Human Services+3 more: $63,341 · Human ServicesCAR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY FUND: $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterRealtors Relief Foundation: $500,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $252,200 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA DESERT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITY FOUNDATION INC: $104,511 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN SOLANO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $62,113 · PhilanthropyMountain Resort Communities Association of Realtors Charity Foundation Inc: $22,569 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyInland Valleys Association of Realtors: $262,091 · Membership Benefit
Other$38,964,550Community Improvement$2,413,121Human Services$2,143,641Housing & Shelter$1,000,000Public Safety & Disaster$510,000Philanthropy$451,393Membership Benefit$262,091

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYes on 19 Coalition of Firefighters Realtors Seniors Disabled Homeowners: $13,500,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetCALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP INC: $2,080,300 over 6y, 100% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $1,300,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCAR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetOrange County Realtors: $816,870 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetPACIFIC WEST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $610,395 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetRealtors Relief Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetNORTH BAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $272,195 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetBAKERSFIELD ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $263,708 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetInland Valleys Association of Realtors: $262,091 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $252,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $237,776 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetWest San Gabriel Valley Realtors: $236,999 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTRI-COUNTIES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS AND SUBSIDIARIES: $213,324 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $195,162 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COASTAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $178,496 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $165,898 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBRIDGE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $153,560 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetPacific Southwest Association of Realtors: $135,521 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INLAND GATEWAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $128,227 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCONEJO SIMI MOORPARK ASSOC OF REALTORS: $127,796 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $127,405 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetLODI ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $116,457 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetGREATER PALM SPRINGS REALTORS: $112,522 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA DESERT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITY FOUNDATION INC: $104,511 over 3y, 98% of budgetORANGE COAST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $102,001 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $83,331 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTAHOE SIERRA BOARD OF REALTORS: $79,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetLAGUNA BOARD OF REALTORS: $69,374 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $65,455 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN SOLANO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $62,113 over 3y, 41% of budgetNORTH SAN DIEGO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $57,383 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLENDALE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $51,561 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetYOLO COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS: $48,220 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY BUSINESS FEDERATION: $41,147 over 1y, 11% of budgetTulare County Association of Realtors Charitable Foundation: $25,592 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetINGLEWOOD BOARD OF REALTORS: $23,464 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMountain Resort Communities Association of Realtors Charity Foundation Inc: $22,569 over 3y, 20% of budgetEAST VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $21,572 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRocklin Chamber of Commerce: $20,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $18,691 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOLANO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS FOUNDATION: $16,231 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAN BENITO COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTOR: $15,915 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetLincoln Area Chamber of Commerce: $15,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNational Association of Realtors: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDELTA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS: $14,643 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMERCED CO ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14,285 over 2y, 46% 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 Homeownership for Families and Tax Savings for Seniors ↗
  • Who funds Yes on 19 Coalition of Firefighters Realtors Seniors Disabled Homeowners ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIANS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds CAR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Realtors ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC WEST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds Realtors Relief Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTH BAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds BAKERSFIELD ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds Inland Valleys Association of Realtors ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds West San Gabriel Valley Realtors ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTIES ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST RIVERSIDE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COASTAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CLARA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Southwest Association of Realtors ↗
  • Who funds THE INLAND GATEWAY ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONEJO SIMI MOORPARK ASSOC OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ↗
  • Who funds LODI ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PALM SPRINGS REALTORS ↗

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.

Car Housing Affordabi…National Association …California Associatio…Amazonsmile Foundation
Car Housing Affordability FundCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Car Housing Affordability Fund · National Association of Realtors · California Association of Realtors Issues Mobilization Political Action Com · Amazonsmile 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 California Association of Realtors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Association of Realtors. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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