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California Credit Union

A cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social conditions.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$576kHealth$180kArts & Culture$161kRecreation & Sports$87kHuman Services$50kAnimals$50kYouth Development$35kInternational$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $48,680 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $123,409 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,729 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM$17,500
SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM$11,180
SCRIPPS HOWARD FUND$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SAN DIEGO$5,000
SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND INLAND EMPIRE INC: $10k → 10%CREDIT UNION'S FOR KIDS CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $17k → 14%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT: $28k → 10%CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $27k → 8%OLIVE CREST: $25k → 10%RADY'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $15k → 8%OLIVE CREST: $25k → 10%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%CREDIT UNION'S FOR KIDS CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $13k → 8%LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $23k → 11%SANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $23k → 11%SANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 11%SANTA CLARITA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%UNITED TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%BOYS TO MEN: $10k → 11%BOYS TO MEN: $10k → 11%BOYS TO MEN: $10k → 11%MORALE WELFARE & RECREATION: $30k → 11%LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $121k → 14%MORALE WELFARE & RECREATION: $20k → 11%LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION: $60k → 14%MORALE WELFARE & RECREATION: $20k → 11%LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION: $58k → 14%SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS AUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUND: $30k → 14%SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS AUXILIARY: $30k → 14%SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF LACOE: $59k → 14%SAN DIEGO FLEET WEEK FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%FRIENDS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $30k → 14%FRIENDS OF LACOE: $19k → 14%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $30k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $20k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $20k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $18k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $15k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $11k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $10k → 11%USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $10k → 11%SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$941k · 19 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$941k
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UM
    USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +44%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $119k · revenue ×77 · 32% of their budget
  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $114k · revenue ×41

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $121k
  • WF
    WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -46%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $20k

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.

1
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Santa Monica Education Foundation

The Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF) raises funds to enhance and supplement the curriculum of every public school in the city of Santa Monica.

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5
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
6
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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7
El Segundo Education Foundation

The el segundo education foundation represents a partnership of businesses, individuals and families organized to support and enhance programs of the el segundo unified school district and to promote excellence in education.

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8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
10
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

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11
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
12
San Diego County Credit Union

A not-for-profit credit union wholly owned by its members

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Teachers Educational Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Child & Family Crisis Servi…Affordable Housing Developm…Regional Business ChambersYouth Development CentersJewish Community Organizati…Community Health CentersYouth Sports ClubsSchool Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%13%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr12%15%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
16%
11,329/71,875

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $121,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $81,480 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKPORT HUENEME - NAVY LIFE SHOW — $70,000 · OtherPORT HUENEME - NAVY LIFE SHOWAUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUND — $60,000 · OtherAUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUNDCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION — $46,300 · OtherCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATIONUNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES — $23,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $20,000 · OtherSANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $28,500 · OtherWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $27,990 · Other+11 more — $91,939 · Other+11 moreLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $118,549 · EducationLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCH…GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $113,762 · EducationGREATER LOS ANGELES EDU…EASTLAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM — $137,500 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MUSE…SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $23,680 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR &…San Diego Fleet Week Foundation — $52,500 · Recreation & SportsPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH SHORE GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOLIVE CREST — $50,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $10,000 · HealthGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · AnimalsBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$570,209Education$247,311Arts & Culture$161,180Recreation & Sports$86,500Health$60,000Animals$50,000Youth Development$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM — $137,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $118,549 over 2y, 32% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $113,762 over 4y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $81,480 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Fleet Week Foundation — $52,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION — $46,300 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $28,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $27,990 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $23,680 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $18,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRADERS4ACAUSE — $10,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL — $10,149 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScripps Howard Fund — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEASTLAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Education Association — $7,480 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF THE US SAN DIEGO COUNCIL — $6,860 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASCENCIA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…California Community …The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Nordson Corporati…National Philanthropi…Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …
Sempra FoundationCA20.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Credit Union 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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