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California Chamber of Commerce
Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLICY GROUP | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA PROBLEM SOLVERS ACTION FUND | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA'S TECH & INNOVATION ECONOMY | $20,000 |
| CA LATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GOVERNOR'S CUP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INDEPENDENT VOTER PROJECT | $10,500 |
| THE CALIFORNIA MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE LGBTQ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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; $30k 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
- WIWomen in California Leadership Inc2× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +75%
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
- IVINDEPENDENT VOTER PROJECT4× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- 2G2023 Governors Inaugural Fundone grant, 2023 · $175k
- GIGOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
- WIWOMEN IN CALIFORNIA POLITICS2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue -87%
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.
To support policies and ballot measures to curb increases in taxes throughout the state of California, including the qualification and passage of a proposed statewide initiative relating to the imposition of taxes and fees (California…
To provide californians with accurate, science-based information about energy and climate issues, enabling informed decision-making for our state's energy future. we believe that through education and transparent research, we can help…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The primary purpose of the organization is to examine and report on public policy issues related to Science and Technology that affect the State of California. CCST is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization that was established as an…
The specific and primary purpose of Govern for California is to promote social welfare by improving the democratic process and the performance of government through policy reforms in election rules through education of candidates and…
Cfc advocates for the rights of california consumers on a broad range of consumer issues.
CalTaxs mission is to serve the general public and our members including Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and individuals by promoting sound tax policy and government efficiency at the state and local levels of government through…
The california business roundtable is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization composed of chief executive officers of leading california businesses. since 1976, the roundtable has provided essential leadership on high-priority public policy…
To support policies and ballot measures to support employment reform.
Open Californias Mission is to inform, enlighten and educate Californians about public policy and state governance, and to provide a platform for engagement with public officials, advocates and political interests.
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The california forward action fund strives to improve the quality of life for all californians by advocating for policies that create inclusive, sustainable growth and improved government at the state and local levels. the action fund is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Foundation for Commerce & Education and the most unlike its peers is Republican Main Street Partnership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 2023 Governors Inaugural Fund ↗
- Who funds California Policy Group ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS CUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women in California Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA'S TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT VOTER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LATINO LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Problem Solvers Action Fund ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS INAUGURAL FUND 2019 ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LGBTQ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA POLITICS ↗
- Who funds Institute for Democracy and Justice ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA MUSEUM FOR HISTORY WOMEN AND THE ARTS ↗
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: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems · California Fire Foundation · Ca Broadband & Video Association · California Charter Schools Association Advocates · California Apartment Association · United Domestic Workers of America · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · California Charter Schools Association · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Chamber of Commerce 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.
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