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· Public charity

California Black Power Network

To change the lived conditions of black Californians by dismantling systemic and anti-black racism.

$793k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$147k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.0MArts & Culture$96kCivil Rights$63k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $378k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
$55,698
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY$146,929
CTR EMPOWER POLITICS EDUC FDN$125,000
CONGREGATIONS ORGS FOR PROPHE$92,822
HEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC$73,506
BLDG OPPORTUNITI SELF SUFFIC$72,275
BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIG$67,672
COLEMAN ADVOCATES -CHILDREN$67,314
FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS POWER$66,349
CANGRESS DBA LA COMM ACTION$63,679
DIGNITY & POWER NOW$62,815
LA BLACK WORKER CENTER$56,507
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS$55,698
PTNSP-ADVT OF NEW AMERICANS$51,501
CENTER FOR POLICY INITIATIVES$50,000
FRESNO METRO BLACK CHAMBER$49,079
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $696k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILIES & INDIVIDUALS POWER: $66k → 9%COLEMAN ADVOCATES -CHILDREN: $67k → 10%CENTER FOR POLICY INITIATIVES: $50k → 11%AMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE: $39k → 12%COLEMAN ADVOCATES -CHILDREN: $18k → 10%CENTER FOR POLICY INITIATIVES: $29k → 11%AMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE: $37k → 12%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $147k → 11%BLACK WOMEN ORG POLITICAL ACT: $30k → 10%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $23k → 11%BWOPA TILE: $34k → 10%PTNSP-ADVT OF NEW AMERICANS: $52k → 11%PTNSP-ADVT OF NEW AMERICANS: $41k → 11%THE COMMUNITY ACTION LEAGUE: $38k → 14%THE COMMUNITY ACTION LEAGUE: $25k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 19 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+82%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PO
    PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $170k · revenue +12%
  • HEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $109k · revenue +24%
  • BA
    BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CB
    California Black Womens Health Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +82%
  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -33%
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

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3
California Black Power Network Action Fund

Promote social welfare thru political policy

Civil Rights
4
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
5
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
6
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
7
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services
8
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
9
California Urban Partnership

The California Urban Partnership's (CUP) mission is to build economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action. We advocate for systems changes that increase investments to improve…

Community Improvement
10
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
11
California Black Power Network

To change the lived conditions of black Californians by dismantling systemic and anti-black racism. CBPN fulfills this mission by building and protecting Black Political Power through the development of robust policy campaigns and advocacy…

Civil Rights
12
A Legacy of Equality Leadership and Organizing

LELO strives to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities, in the U.S. and across…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Women for Wellness; the most unlike its peers is California Black Womens Health Project. 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

26 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
10/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $170,060 · Human ServicesPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITYPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $92,655 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NE…Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $84,942 · Human ServicesColeman Children and Youth Services d…CENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $79,400 · Human ServicesCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVESAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER: $76,108 · Human ServicesAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTERFIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme: $66,349 · Human ServicesFIERCE Advocates Families & Individua…TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT: $63,771 · Human ServicesTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENR…The Community Action League: $62,679 · Human ServicesThe Community Action LeagueHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC: $108,883 · HealthHEALTHY BLACK FAM…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $103,989 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR W…A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $85,844 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE…California Black Womens Health Project: $21,929 · HealthCalifornia Black …Voice of the Youth Inc: $93,087 · Youth DevelopmentVoice of …HELPING OTHERS PURSUE EXCELLENCE: $80,394 · Youth DevelopmentHELPING O…STARTING OVER INC: $91,012 · Housing & ShelterSTARTING …BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $78,275 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING …CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $89,249 · Community ImprovementFRESNO METRO BLACK CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $57,858 · Community ImprovementCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $141,769 · ReligionCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $125,000 · Civil RightsSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $73,575 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND I…BLU Educational Foundation: $43,727 · OtherBLU Educational Fo…BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $95,714 · OtherBLACK ALLIANCE FOR…Dignity and Power Now: $62,815 · OtherDignity and Power …Los Angeles Black Worker Center: $56,507 · OtherLos Angeles Black …+1 more: $5,552 · Other
Human Services$695,964Health$320,645Youth Development$173,481Housing & Shelter$169,287Community Improvement$147,107Religion$141,769Civil Rights$125,000Other$337,890

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $170,060 over 2y, 10% of budgetCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT: $141,769 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTHY BLACK FAMILIES INC: $108,883 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $103,989 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $95,714 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVoice of the Youth Inc: $93,087 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $92,655 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTARTING OVER INC: $91,012 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $89,249 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $85,844 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $84,942 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHELPING OTHERS PURSUE EXCELLENCE: $80,394 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER ON POLICY INITIATIVES: $79,400 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $78,275 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER: $76,108 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $73,575 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme: $66,349 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT: $63,771 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDignity and Power Now: $62,815 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Community Action League: $62,679 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFRESNO METRO BLACK CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $57,858 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLos Angeles Black Worker Center: $56,507 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLU Educational Foundation: $43,727 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCalifornia Black Womens Health Project: $21,929 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $5,552 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The California Endowm…The California Wellne…Silicon Valley Commun…California Calls Educ…Southern California G…Tides CenterThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Weingart FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Liberty Hill Foundati…The James Irvine Foun…
The California EndowmentCA40.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Calls Education Fund · Southern California Grantmakers · Tides Center · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Liberty Hill Foundation · The James Irvine 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 Black Power Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Black Power Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to California Black Power Network?

    Find your warmest path to California Black Power Network 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.

    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 26 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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