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California Health Advocates

California Health Advocate (CHA) provides quality medicare and related health care coverage information, education, and policy advocacy

$241k
Granted FY2020
21
Itemized grants FY2020
21
Organizations funded FY2020
95%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$196k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 21
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$305k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 95% of the organizations California Health Advocates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202021$196k95%
FY20193$35k0%
FY20183$26k67%
FY20171$6kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$126kEmployment$55kHealth$41kEducation$26kCrime & Legal$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of California Health Advocates by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Council on Aging - Southern California$46,00040%
Justice in Aging$27,50021%
Stop Senior Scams Acting Prog$16,0002n/a
Valley Caregiver Resource Center$10,50010%
Legal Services of Northern California$10,50010%
Life Skills Training & Educational Programs Inc$10,00010%
Legal Assistance for Seniors$5,50010%
Senior Network Services Inc$5,50011%
Sourcewise$5,50010%
Senior Advocacy Services$5,50011%
Chico State Enterprises$5,50010%
Center for Health Care Rights$5,50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget California Health Advocates supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCouncil on Aging - Southern California: $46,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJustice in Aging: $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetValley Caregiver Resource Center: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Services of Northern California: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Skills Training & Educational Programs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Assistance for Seniors: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSenior Network Services Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSourcewise: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Advocacy Services: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChico State Enterprises: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Health Care Rights: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Scan Health Plan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About California Health Advocates

How much does California Health Advocates give?
California Health Advocates reported 21 itemized grants totaling $196,000, out of $241,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does California Health Advocates fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Employment (21%), Health (16%).
Who are California Health Advocates's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Council on Aging - Southern California ($46k), Justice in Aging ($28k), Stop Senior Scams Acting Prog ($16k).
Does California Health Advocates fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 95% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Health Advocates?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Scan Health Plan, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is California Health Advocates based?
California Health Advocates is based in CA.

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 23 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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