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California Credit Union at a glance

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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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$576kHealth$180kArts & Culture$161kRecreation & Sports$87kHuman Services$50kAnimals$50kYouth Development$35kInternational$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $320,127, the rows itemized in this filing. The $362,027 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,900 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,740
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$100,000
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$29,936
GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION$27,900
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$23,200
SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM$15,000
CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION$11,600
NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION$10,000
LOS ANGELES CITY SCHOOLS AUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUND$10,000
WILLIAM S HART EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,740
CA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION$7,000
UNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES$7,000
PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,991
UNITED TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,500
EASTLAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$1.2M
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
-2%

Still filing today

86%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue ×77 · 32% of their budget
  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue ×41
  • UM
    USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • WF
    WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -46%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • RC
    RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -15%
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
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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2
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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3
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
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
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
6
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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7
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
8
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
9
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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10
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

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11
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
12
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $150,936 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $104,680 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKAUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUND: $70,000 · OtherAUXILIARY SERVICES TRUST FUNDPORT HUENEME - NAVY LIFE SHOW: $70,000 · OtherPORT HUENEME - NAVY LIFE SHOWCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $57,900 · OtherCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATIONUNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · OtherBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $30,000 · OtherSANTA CLARITA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $28,500 · OtherWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $27,990 · Other+15 more: $128,549 · Other+15 moreLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $143,549 · EducationLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCH…GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $141,662 · EducationGREATER LOS ANGELES EDU…EASTLAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Education+3 more: $17,740 · Education+3 moreUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $137,500 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MU…SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $38,680 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR…CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $18,150 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILD…Scripps Howard Fund: $15,000 · PhilanthropyScripps Ho…PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,991 · PhilanthropySan 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 · Animals
Other$698,555Education$318,951Arts & Culture$176,180Philanthropy$140,141Recreation & Sports$86,500Health$60,000Animals$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $143,549 over 3y, 32% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $141,662 over 5y, 24% of budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM: $137,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $104,680 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $57,900 over 3y, 5.8% 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 budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $38,680 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $18,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTLAKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetScripps Howard Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 budgetSan Diego Education Association: $12,680 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED TEACHERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTRADERS4ACAUSE: $10,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL: $10,149 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM S HART EDUCATION FOUNDATION WISH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,740 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,991 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF THE US SAN DIEGO COUNCIL: $6,860 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASCENCIA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED ADMINISTRATORS OF LOS ANGELES: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AALA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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

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 Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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