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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
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$30k
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 2020.

Human Services$126kEmployment$55kHealth$41kEducation$26kCrime & Legal$16k
02FY2020 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $196,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $241,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,000 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k14 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
California Health Report$30,000
Council On Aging-Southern Cal$23,000
Community Partners for CEJC$20,000
HICAP-Self Help for the Elder$11,000
Valley Caregiver Resource Cen$10,500
Legal Services of Northern CA$10,500
LifeSTEPS$10,000
California Long Term Care Omb$9,500
Senior Advocacy Services$5,500
PSA 2 HICAP$5,500
Sourcewise$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,500
Chico State Enterprises$5,500
Center for Health Care Rights$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,500
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 (FY17–20, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sourcewise: $6k → 8%Council On Aging-Southern Cal: $23k → 10%Senior Network Services: $6k → 13%Council On Aging-So Cal: $10k → 10%Council On Aging-So Cal: $7k → 10%Council On Aging-Orange Cnty: $6k → 10%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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 3 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +171% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
20

Total granted

$90k
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+171%
+64%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +80%
  • JI
    JUSTICE IN AGING
    2× · 2018–2019 · $28k · revenue +171%
  • SS
    Stop Senior Scams Acting Prog
    2× · 2018–2019 · $16k

Funded once

  • CH
    California Health Report
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • CP
    Community Partners for CEJC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HH
    HICAP-Self Help for the Elder
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Senior Advocacy Network

Free legal services to seniors.

Crime & Legal
2
Elder Law & Advocacy

Elder Law & Advocacy (Elder Law) is a nonprofit organization incorporated on December 11, 1978 under the laws of the State of California. Elder Laws mission is to protect seniors by providing legal advice and advocacy. Elder Law serves…

Crime & Legal
3
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

—
4
Senior Citizens Legal Services

Legal service for seniors.

Crime & Legal
5
Senior Adults Legal Assistance

Support older persons in their efforts to live safely, independently, non-institutionalized, and with dignity.

Crime & Legal
6
Senior Access

Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.

—
7
California Health Advocates

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

Community Improvement
8
Alzheimers Services of the East Bay

The mission of Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay is to provide services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia; provide support for their caregivers; and educate and inform the general community about issues…

Health
9
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform

California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR is dedicated to improving the choices, care and quality of life for Californias long -erm care consumers. Through direct advocacy, policy research, education, and litigation it has been…

Health
10
Volunteers Assisting Seniors

Assisting seniors with benefits

—
11
Contra Costa Senior Legal Services

Lawyers are uniquely qualified to help identify and address legal issues that impede the ability of seniors to remain healthy and independent.

Crime & Legal
12
Wise and Healthy Aging

The organization is a multi-service, 501c(3) not-for-profit, social services organization serving seniors throughout los angeles and san bernardio counties, with emphasis on low-income and/or underserved individuals. the organization…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Advocacy Services; the most unlike its peers is Chico State Enterprises. 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

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California Health Report: $30,000 · OtherCalifornia Health ReportJUSTICE IN AGING: $27,500 · OtherJUSTICE IN AGINGCommunity Partners for CEJC: $20,000 · OtherCommunity Partners for CEJCStop Senior Scams Acting Prog: $16,000 · OtherStop Senior Scams Acting ProgHICAP-Self Help for the Elder: $11,000 · OtherHICAP-Self Help for the ElderCalifornia Long Term Care Omb: $9,500 · OtherCalifornia Long Term Care OmbIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherContra Costa County: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherVentura County Area Agency on: $5,500 · OtherPSA 2 HICAP: $5,500 · OtherKern County Aging & Adult Ser: $5,500 · OtherDept of Aging & Veterans Ser: $5,500 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $46,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTH…SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR NETWORK SERVICES …Sourcewise: $5,500 · Human ServicesSourcewiseVALLEY CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER: $10,500 · HealthVALLEY CA…Senior Advocacy Services: $5,500 · HealthSenior Ad…Center for Health Care Rights: $5,500 · HealthCenter fo…LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS: $5,500 · Crime & LegalLIFE SKILLS TRAINING & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterChico State Enterprises: $5,500 · Education
Other$152,500Human Services$57,000Health$21,500Crime & Legal$16,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$5,500

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

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
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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Scan Health PlanDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Health Advocates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Health Advocates. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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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