· Public charity
California Credit Union League
Provide credit unions with advocacy, education, information and leadership.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARISHONERS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $7,790 |
| KAIPERM CREDIT UNION | $7,500 |
| EL MONTE COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION | $6,895 |
| ORGANIZED LABOR CREDIT UNION | $6,500 |
| INLAND FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $6,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $6,000 |
| SMW 104 FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $6,000 |
| MID CITIES CREDIT UNION | $6,000 |
| COMUNIDAD LATINA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $5,814 |
| VALLEY AGRICULTURAL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | $5,773 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 68% of California Credit Union League’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 10%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPARISHONERS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION2× · 2023–2024 · $14k
- EMEl Monte Community Credit Union2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%
- OLOrganized Labor Credit Union2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PFPOLAM FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- RCRENO CITY EMPLOYEES FEDERAL CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2022 · $7k
- UCUPWARD CREDIT UNION FKA UNITED HEALTH CREDIT UNIONone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +21%
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.
6 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. 6 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization California Credit Union League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Credit Union League. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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