· Public charity
California Cupa Forum
The CALIFORNIA CUPA FORUM was formed to provide a single statewide organization consolidating unified program implementation efforts and representing all unified program agencies with a single voice.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA MONICA FIRE CUPA | $58,585 |
| COLUSA COUNTY | $45,500 |
| TUOLOMNE COUNTY CUPA | $35,000 |
| GLENN COUNTY AIR POLLU | $33,041 |
| HUMBOLDT COUNTY H&HS | $31,895 |
| YUBA COUNTY ENVIRONMEN | $6,649 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOLUSA COUNTY APCD2× · 2018–2024 · $89k
- COCOUNTY OF HUMBOLDT3× · 2017–2024 · $71k
- SCSTANISLAUS COUNTY LIBRARY2× · 2017–2022 · $50k
Funded once
- EDEL DORADO COUNTY AQMDone grant, 2023 · $107k
- COCOUNTY OF DEL NORTEone grant, 2023 · $70k
- SCSISKIYOU COUNTY APCDone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 18 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.
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.
Open a dossier: California Fire Safe Council Inc · California Air Pollution Control Officers Association · California Fire Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life · California Emerging Technology Fund · Public Health Institute · Save The Children Federation Inc
How this is measured
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