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California Foundation for Stronger Communities at a glance

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California Foundation for Stronger Communities

To provide financial grants or other financial support or benefits to nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporations to strengthen and enhance charitable activities throughout the state of california.

$8.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
201
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Human Services$8.5MHealth$3.7MFood & Nutrition$3.6MHousing & Shelter$2.5MYouth Development$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.1MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 201 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k145 grants · $3.4M
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$265,000
THE FORAGER SCHOOL$205,000
OLIVE CREST$185,000
RODEO BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$175,000
MAYA'S MUSIC THERAPY$165,000
THE RESPITE INN$145,000
VISTABILITY$140,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$140,000
YOUTH HOMES INCORPORATED$135,000
BABY2BABY$120,000
SFR COMMUNITY FUND INC$108,000
WHITE PONY EXPRESS$105,000
LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC$100,000
OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC$100,000
SKYHOOK FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY17–25, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CAMBODIAN FAMILY: $40k → 10%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $55k → 10%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 16%UNCHAINED AT LAST INC: $40k → 10%REGIONAL CENTER OF THE EAST BAY INC: $70k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY FOOD BANK: $60k → 9%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $40k → 10%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $45k → 17%ON THE MOVE: $50k → 9%VISTABILITY: $165k → 9%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $78k → 10%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40k → 17%IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $40k → 21%VISTABILITY: $140k → 9%MOLLYS ANGELS: $40k → 9%AFGHAN COALLITION: $40k → 10%GIVE EVERY CHILD A CHANCE: $40k → 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $40k → 14%PATRIOTS AND PAWS: $45k → 10%WAWOS: $45k → 10%FURNISHING HOPE: $50k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $45k → 10%MAYA'S MUSIC THERAPY: $165k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: $70k → 14%CHICKS IN CRISIS: $45k → 12%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $100k → 9%HAIGHT ASHBURY FOOD PROGRAM: $50k → 10%LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC: $55k → 9%HAIGHT ASHBURY FOOD PROGRAM: $50k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIAINC: $95k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $45k → 10%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $100k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%YOUTH HOMES INCORPORATED: $135k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $105k → 9%SHOES THAT FIT: $45k → 14%SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISHES: $45k → 12%SO CALIFORNIA WHEELCHAIR VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 11%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES CALIFORNIA: $70k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $75k → 14%SFR COMMUNITY FUND INC: $108k → 9%LAURA'S HOUSE: $45k → 10%WORTHY OF LOVE: $55k → 14%RAINBOW FAMILY INC: $115k → 10%RAINBOW FAMILY INC: $75k → 10%RAINBOW FAMILY MINISTRY INC: $60k → 10%RAINBOW FAMILY INC: $45k → 10%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN INC: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 63% of California Foundation for Stronger Communities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 38%.

California Foundation for Stronger Communitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 235 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

235 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2025, 140 since wound down; 99 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

235
401

Total granted

$19M
$8.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RF
    RAINBOW FAMILY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +20% · 59% of their budget
  • OC
    OLIVE CREST
    8× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +158%
  • V
    VISTABILITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $305k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +45%
  • RN
    ROBYNES NESTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $78k · revenue +29%
  • PS
    PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY
    one grant, 2022 · $78k · revenue -31%
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
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
2
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
3
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
4
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
5
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
6
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
7
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
8
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
9
Prevail Ca

To provide safety, compassion, and respect as we educate, empower, and advocate for individuals, families, and young people.

Human Services
10
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
11
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
12
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Oscar De La Hoya Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

709 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 709 of the 759 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.

44
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
143
Early backer (in before they grew)
689/709
Grantees still filing
415/709
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAINBOW FAMILY INC: $460,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW FAMILY INCVISTABILITY: $305,000 · Human ServicesVISTABILITYLas Trampas School Inc: $260,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $220,000 · Human Services+45 more: $4,309,547 · Human Services+45 moreBEV S ANGEL PROJECT INC: $302,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Other+83 more: $7,363,745 · Other+83 moreTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $216,403 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIE…SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $200,000 · PhilanthropySECOND HARV…Lincoln Community Foundation: $180,000 · PhilanthropyLincoln Com…CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $175,000 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE F…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $140,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …ANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $138,680 · PhilanthropyANAHEIM COM…FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $130,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY ASSI…Community Foundation of Orange: $125,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity F…Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc: $107,088 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $81,226 · PhilanthropyPlacer Community Foundation: $80,904 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLADDAGH FUND CHARITIES INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION IS FOREVER CORP: $70,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $175,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreOSCAR DE LA HOYA FOUNDATION: $847,000 · EducationThe Forager School: $240,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationLADERA EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $115,000 · EducationUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationEDVENTUREMORE: $85,000 · EducationYOUTH MENTORING CONNECTION: $70,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $60,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $245,412 · Food & NutritionADONAI: $135,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $125,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $115,318 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $110,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $84,100 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES: $79,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $69,100 · Food & NutritionEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $65,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $65,000 · Food & NutritionSan Diego Food System Alliance: $65,000 · Food & NutritionMeals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc: $60,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $60,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD SHARE INC: $59,100 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $59,100 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $54,100 · Food & NutritionOLIVE CREST: $380,000 · HealthLincoln: $182,000 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $75,000 · HealthSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC: $75,000 · HealthKIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE: $70,000 · HealthFriends of Children with Special Needs: $65,000 · HealthPLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER: $65,000 · HealthThe Magic Yarn Project: $60,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $51,000 · HealthTHE STEPS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthNEW HOPE GRIEF SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $50,000 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $50,000 · HealthDANIEL HERNANDEZ YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentROBYNES NEST: $78,186 · Youth DevelopmentEast Los Angeles Community Youth Center: $76,140 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE YOUR G A M E: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentFostering Youth Independence: $68,038 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANTECA: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentEASTSIDE STUDENT CENTER: $50,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$5,554,547Other$7,965,745Philanthropy$2,069,301Education$1,637,000Food & Nutrition$1,450,230Health$1,253,000Youth Development$822,364

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOSCAR DE LA HOYA FOUNDATION: $847,000 over 9y, 99% of budgetRAINBOW FAMILY INC: $460,000 over 9y, 59% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $380,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVISTABILITY: $305,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc: $260,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $245,412 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProject Ride Inc: $245,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetThe Forager School: $240,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $220,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY: $220,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $216,403 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $200,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $195,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLincoln: $182,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRIDE Industries: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation: $180,000 over 7y, 48% of budgetFRIENDS OF FIELDWORKERS INC: $177,500 over 3y, 37% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY: $170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOALITION TO ABOLISH SLAVERY & TRAFFICKING: $165,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSKYHOOK FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMAYA'S MUSIC THERAPY FUND: $165,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $160,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center: $160,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN COUNTY CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Respite Inn: $145,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $145,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOME AGAIN LOS ANGELES: $140,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $138,680 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLegion Community Foundation: $135,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetYouth Homes Inc: $135,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL: $135,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADONAI: $135,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetGIVE EVERY CHILD A CHANCE: $130,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $130,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Orange: $125,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE US THE FLOOR: $125,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetRIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC ASSN INC: $120,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDYF: $120,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $115,318 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLADERA EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $115,000 over 3y, 1.7% 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.

In-N-Out Burgers Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Teichert FoundationCalfoods LogisticsCalifornia Associatio…California Court Appo…The PG&E Corporation …Sisters of St Joseph …Sacramento Region Com…California Physicians…Dignity HealthMufg Union Bank Found…
In-N-Out Burgers FoundationCA73.7× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Teichert Foundation · Calfoods Logistics · California Association of Food Banks · California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Dignity Health · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag

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 Foundation for Stronger Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Foundation for Stronger Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    95report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to California Foundation for Stronger Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 759 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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