· Public charity
California Calls Education Fund
CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND (ccef) is an alliance of community-based organizations from across the state of california.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK ACTION FUND | $182,179 |
| DOLORES HUERTA FOUNDATION (DHF ) | $179,529 |
| INNERCITY STRUGGLE (ICS) | $179,261 |
| OC ACTION | $172,160 |
| ALLIANCE SAN DIEGO | $171,931 |
| STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION (SCOPE) | $156,517 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR A NEW CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND (CNC) | $122,593 |
| LA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $115,000 |
| SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER | $115,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF IMMIGRANTS ARE LA | $115,000 |
| INLAND EMPIRE UNITED EDUCATION FUND | $113,400 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION (COCO) | $104,101 |
| WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA (WPUSA) | $100,075 |
| POWERCA ACTION | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $578k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +290%
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +494%- ISINNERCITY STRUGGLE7× · 2017–2024 · $823k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- CCCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $285k · revenue +141% · 26% of their budget
- CCCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $212k · revenue -47%
- COCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENTone grant, 2023 · $92k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Powerca Action Fka Mobilize the Immigrant Vote Action and the most unlike its peers is California Black Power Network Action Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Communities for A New California ↗
- Who funds MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds Working Partnerships USA ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER ↗
- Who funds PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds OC Action ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds BLU Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds POWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND EMPIRE UNITED EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds LA VOICE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Center · California Community Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · California Calls Action Fund · Tides 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 organization California Calls Education Fund 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.
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 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.