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California Humanities

CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES was founded in 1975 with a defined mission to connect californians to ideas and one another in order to understand our shared heritage and diverse cultures, inspire civic participation, and shape our future.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
41
Itemized grants FY2024
45
Organizations funded FY2022
49%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$858k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$24,520
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
45 to 213
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 49% of the organizations California Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving40$808k50%
FY202245$1.1M49%
FY2021213$4.0M55%
FY2020175$2.5M75%
FY2019103$1.2M90%
FY201879$959kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.4MEducation$1.6MCommunity Improvement$307kHuman Services$235kEnvironment$232kYouth Development$222kPhilanthropy$127kCivil Rights$98kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
NV
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CT
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of California Humanities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Documentary Foundation Inc$366,00071%
Women Make Movies Inc$185,00041%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$185,00052%
Visual Communications Media$132,50075%
Community Partners$122,80050%
Kalw Public Media Inc$117,50052%
Film Independent$109,00050%
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated$95,00041%
Independent Arts & Media$90,90041%
Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center$90,00052%
Regents Univ of California$79,8023n/a
The Litquake Foundation$70,00035%
San Francisco Film Society$65,00031%
Kitchen Sisters$65,000217%
Earth Island Institute Inc$65,00020%
University of California Davis$65,0002n/a
Filmmakers Collaborative$64,00044%
Los Angeles Poverty Department$62,500311%
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation$61,48320%
Arhoolie Foundation$60,00035%
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$60,00020%
Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT$60,00031%
Japanese American National Museum$57,50030%
White Ash Broadcasting Inc$57,50022%
Museum of Latin American Art$55,00021%
Teada Productions$52,500210%
International Media Project$50,00028%
Alliance for California Traditional Arts$50,00021%
Santa Monica Historical Society$50,000211%
From The Heart Productions$50,00021%
Outside the Lens$50,00033%
Fort Ross Conservancy$50,00018%
El Teatro Campesino$50,000210%
Media Arts Center San Diego$50,00042%
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles$49,12125%
city of san diego$45,0003n/a
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes$45,00030%
Csusb Philanthropic Foundation$45,00020%
The Oakland Public Education Fund$45,00030%
California Institute for Rural Studies$45,00023%
Museum of Sonoma County$45,00032%
Kartemquin Educational Films$45,00013%
San Jose State University Research Foundation$44,56720%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside$44,5243n/a
San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum$44,11538%
API Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center$43,00033%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc$42,50031%
Oxnard Performing Arts Center Corp$42,50027%
San Diego Historical Society$42,50022%
Uptown Tenderloin Inc$42,50026%
Society of California Pioneers$42,50025%
The 1947 Partition Archive$41,067313%
The Catticus Corporation$40,00023%
Heidi Duckler Dance$40,00024%
The Historic Italian Hall Foundation$40,00023%
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc$40,00020%
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco$40,00022%
Citizen Film Inc$40,00024%
Historical Society of Long Beach$40,00029%
Swell Foundation$40,0001n/a
Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation$40,00022%
Oakland Museum of California$40,00020%
Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation$40,00021%
ARTogether$40,000226%
Mendocino County Public Broadcasting$40,00023%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$40,0002n/a
California State University Fresno Foundation$39,82940%
Shasta County Arts Council$38,00034%
Go for Broke National Educational Center$37,50021%
Pacific Arts Movement$37,50015%
Museum of the African Diaspora (Moad)$37,50031%
California Historical Society$35,00022%
Holocaust Museum La$35,00020%
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA$35,00022%
Filmforum Inc$35,000117%
Barcid Foundation$35,00032%
Venice Arts$35,00022%
City of Riverside$35,0003n/a
San Diego Children's Discovery Museum$35,00022%
Future Roots Inc$35,00013%
Mission Inn Foundation$35,00025%
Intersection for the Arts$35,00040%
Riverside Art Museum$34,35031%
Sonoma State University$33,8962n/a
Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission I$33,5742n/a
Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association$33,00026%
Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation$32,50032%
Global Girl Media$32,500219%
Clockshop$32,50038%
Richmond Museum Association Inc$31,00026%
Inlandia Institute Inc$31,00028%
City of Whittier$30,5003n/a
Skirball Cultural Center$30,00020%
Sutter County HHS$30,0002n/a
Koreatown Youth and Community Center$30,00020%
Northern California Resource Center$30,00011%
Asian Improv Arts$30,0002n/a
Community Media Access Collaborative$30,00031%
Radio Bilingue Inc$30,00020%
Community Rejuvenation Project Inc$30,000111%
Black Voice Foundation Inc$30,000214%
Writing Downtown Inc$30,000118%
Public Media Group of Southern California$30,00020%
Kala Art Institute$30,00021%
County of Nevada$30,0002n/a
Capital Storytelling$30,000213%
Artlab21 Foundation Esmoa$30,00015%
Jewish Film Institute$30,00021%
Donaldina Cameron House$30,0001n/a
Center for Asian American Media$30,00011%
Documentary Educational Resources Inc$30,00012%
City of Anaheim$30,0002n/a
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc$30,00012%
Fred T Korematsu Institute$30,000113%
County of Fresno$29,5202n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$29,29820%
Bay Area Creative BAC$28,0372n/a
University of la Verne$27,50020%
Marin Shakespeare Company$27,50020%
California State University San Marcos Corporation$27,50020%
Womens History Reclamation Project Inc dba Womens Museum of California$27,500211%
One Archives Foundation$27,50033%
Mineral King Preservation Society$27,500110%
Arab Film and Media Institute$27,014211%
University of California Santa Barbara$25,2002n/a
California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Partners$25,00020%
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation$25,00031%
Through My Lens$25,0001n/a
The Futuro Media Group$25,00011%
Media Process Educational Film$25,000117%
Pajaro Valley Arts Council$25,00028%
The New Childrens Museum$25,00030%
Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy dba Bay Area Book Festival$25,00021%
Southern California Public Radio$25,00030%
Playhouse Arts$25,00018%
Oakland Theater Project$25,00012%
Southern California Institute of Architecture$25,00010%
San Jose Parks Foundation$25,00018%
Chaffey Community College District$25,0001n/a
Mingei International Inc$25,00020%
Old Globe Theatre$25,00010%
Race Matters Slo County$25,000131%
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$25,00031%
Chinese Historical Society of America$25,00022%
Mexicali Biennial Inc$25,00018%
Cornerstone Theater Company$25,00013%
Sonoma Community Center$25,00012%
Mission Edge San Diego$25,00010%
Studio IX$25,000134%
San Jose Taiko Group Inc$25,00013%
Manzanita Writers Press$25,000157%
County of Orange$25,0003n/a
County of Madera$25,0001n/a
Ecoarts of Lake County Dba - Middletown Art Center$25,00016%
Scccd$25,0001n/a
Loyola Marymount University$25,00010%
Csu Bakersfield Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration$24,99920%
Ink People Inc$24,98511%
Latino Center of Art and Culture$24,950112%
California State University Stanislaus$24,9212n/a
Kern Dance Alliance$24,90015%
Pepperdine University$24,81520%
Green Room Theatre Company$24,20015%
Eastern Sierra Artists$23,000216%
Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced)$22,5001n/a
Center for the Study of Political Graphics$22,50017%
Street Poets Inc$22,50011%
Yolo County of Environmental Health Services$22,5002n/a
Mechanics' Institute$22,50010%
Active Cultures$22,500110%
County of Riverside Community Health Agency$22,5002n/a
Red Nation Celebration$22,500110%
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society$22,50012%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$21,60310%
Imperial Valley Desert Museum Society Inc$21,50016%
About Productions$21,400210%
Echo Park Film Center$20,96723%
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum$20,000124%
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District$20,0001n/a
San Diego Museum of Art$20,00010%
New Performance Traditions$20,00014%
Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation$20,00014%
Santa Barbara Historical Museum$20,0001n/a
Skylight Theatre Company$20,00014%
International House Davis$20,00015%
Plaza de la Raza Inc$20,00023%
Aunt Lute Foundation$20,00018%
Prophet World Beat Productions$20,000111%
Ryse Inc$20,00010%
El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana$20,00010%
Downtown Oakland Association$20,00011%
Academy Foundation$20,00010%
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts$20,00010%
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center$20,00016%
BenitoLink Inc$20,00017%
Nevada County Cultural Preservation Trust$20,00013%
Autry Museum of the American West$20,00010%
Kvie Inc$20,00010%
Los Gatos Museum Association$20,00015%
Arte Americas The Mexican Arts Center$20,00015%
Stagebridge$20,00016%
Amador Livermore Valley Historical Society$20,00016%
San Bernardino County Museum Association$20,000112%
Dance Film SF Inc$20,00016%
Arts Collaborative of Nevada County$20,00018%
Kqed Inc$20,00010%
Center for Islamophobia Studies$20,00015%
Left of Center Art Gallery$20,000137%
Merced County Office of Education$20,0001n/a
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center$20,00010%
San Francisco Writers Conference$20,000143%
Hip Hop for Change Inc$20,00011%
Little Manila Rising$20,00013%
Filipino-American Development Foundation$20,00013%
Friends of the Chinese American Museum$20,00012%
Taiko Community Alliance$20,000113%
Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research$20,00018%
Chapter 510 Ink$20,00013%
Thai Community Development Center$20,00012%
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc$20,00011%
City of Watsonville$20,0002n/a
Feather River Rail Society$20,00019%
Fresno City and County Historical Society$20,00016%
Southern Exposure$20,00012%
Raizes Collective$20,00015%
The Lab Sf$20,00015%
The Film Collaborative Inc$20,00011%
Migrant Clinicians Network Inc$20,00011%
Blue Lake Rancheria$20,0001n/a
Lambda Archives of San Diego$20,00016%
American Museum of Ceramic Art$20,00011%
California Indian Basketweavers Association$20,0002n/a
Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum of San Diego Inc$20,00010%
Beyond Baroque Foundation$20,00015%
Exhibit Envoy$20,000113%
Pomona College$19,99810%
Elkhorn Slough Foundation$19,99810%
Campo Band of Mission Indians$19,9931n/a
Chico State Enterprises$19,95910%
Museum of Ancient Wonders$19,80010%
Western Neighborhood Project$18,5901n/a
Riverside Community Players$18,327129%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego$18,22510%
California Shakespeare Theater$18,00010%
Mirabel Pictures$18,000111%
Write Out Loud$18,000110%
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural Inc$17,50013%
Mariachi Womens Foundation$16,000114%
Rogue Artists Ensemble$16,000214%
Theatre of Yugen$15,500114%
Mt Shasta Museum Association DBA Sisson Museum$15,40018%
Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum$15,00013%
Balboa Art Conservation Center$15,00012%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$15,0002n/a
The Aja Project$15,00012%
Artsup La$15,00022%
The African American Art and Culture Complex$15,00011%
Pasadena Community Access Corp$15,00011%
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation$15,00012%
The Free History Project Inc$15,00012%
Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians$15,0001n/a
Museum of Ventura County$15,00020%
Stone Soup Productions Inc$15,00015%
Berkeley Film Foundation$15,00017%
Shasta Library Foundation$15,00019%
Epacenter$15,00011%
Korean Community Center of the East Bay$15,0001n/a
San Jose Museum of Art Association$15,00010%
Sunnyside Baptist Church$15,0001n/a
The Z Space Studio$15,00021%
Womens Voices Now Inc$15,00025%
Mt Diablo Unified School Dist$15,0001n/a
San Jose Community Media Access Corporation$15,00011%
New Horizon School Pasadena$15,00010%
Los Angeles Review of Books$15,00012%
The University Corporation$15,00010%
Maritime Museum Association of San Diego$15,00011%
Waco Theater Center$15,00010%
California Heritage Indigenous Research Project$14,84516%
Sfusd$14,7451n/a
Reel Stories dba Camp Reel Stories$14,05015%
Hayward Area Historical Society$13,90522%
Art Forum$13,8591n/a
Crocker Art Museum Association$13,49820%
SOMArts$13,25020%
Project Bandaloop$13,00011%
East la Community Corporation$13,00010%
Onstage Playhouse Inc$12,0001n/a
Manilatown Heritage Foundation$11,35416%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk$10,5002n/a
Riverside County Library System$10,5002n/a
City of la Habra - Community Services$10,5002n/a
City of Santa Barbara Public Library$10,5002n/a
National Japanese American Historical Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Oceanside Museum of Art$10,00011%
University Enterprises Inc$10,00010%
David Brower Center$10,00011%
Mount Saint Mary's University$10,00010%
Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California$10,000210%
Disco Riot$10,0001n/a
Viver Brasil Dance Company$10,00012%
Paradigm Productions Inc$10,000171%
Youth Speaks Inc$10,00010%
Humanities in the City Inc$10,0001n/a
National AIDS Memorial Inc$10,00010%
Navel la Co$10,00012%
City of San Leandro$10,0002n/a
Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival$10,00012%
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park$10,00011%
Kovno Communications Inc$10,00012%
Monterey County Historical Society$10,00012%
San Francisco State University$10,0001n/a
Rosie the Riveter Trust$10,00011%
Buddhist Film Foundation Inc$10,000112%
916 Ink$10,00011%
The Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice$10,00027%
Oceanside Public Library$10,0002n/a
The Performance Zone Inc$10,00010%
Unsung Heroes Living History Project$10,000112%
Los Angeles Conservancy$10,00010%
Shasta Historical Society$10,00014%
Nevada City Community Broadcast Group$10,00011%
Palm Springs Cultural Center$10,00011%
QCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture$10,00021%
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles$10,00012%
Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Department$10,0002n/a
China Alley Preservation Society$10,000114%
The CHIMAERA PROJECT$10,0001n/a
County of Ventura-Auditor$10,0003n/a
Catalina Island Museum$10,00011%
Fiat Justicia Ruat Caelum Inc$10,000113%
Historical Society of Southern California$10,000110%
Blindspot Collective$10,00014%
Independent Feature Project Inc$10,0002n/a
East Bay Media Center$10,000110%
California Center for the Arts Escondido Foundation$10,00010%
Chico Air Museum$10,00018%
The Townies Inc$10,000112%
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation$10,00015%
San Diego Automotive Museum$10,00011%
Black Skeptics Los Angeles$10,0001n/a
The Marin Museum Society Inc$10,0001n/a
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$9,99810%
California Lutheran University$9,98310%
Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation$9,96820%
Fulcrum Arts$9,72421%
Richmond Main Street Initiative Inc$9,44412%
The Friends of the Oakland Public Library$9,30014%
Canyon Cinema Foundation$9,00013%
Community Literature Initiative$9,00017%
Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation Inc$8,90013%
Fresno Pacific University$8,46910%
City of South Gate FBO South Gate Museum$8,2641n/a
Kelley House Museum Incorporated$8,25915%
Leonis Adobe Association$8,00011%
Oakbrook Park Chumash Indian Corporation$8,000112%
The Muzeo Foundation$7,90012%
Whittier Historical Society$7,70015%
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Inc$7,56519%
Awoke$7,50011%
US Merchant Marine Veterans Of WWII$7,36219%
Yolo County Arts Council$6,00012%
The Harry Bridges Project$6,000126%
Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas$5,82710%
La Jolla Historical Society$5,80011%
Friends of the Richmond Public Library$5,5001n/a
Friends of the El Cajon Library$5,5001n/a
Friends of the Oceanside Public Library$5,50023%
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley$5,500125%
Moreno Valley Friends of the Library$5,5001n/a
City of Santa Fe Springs$5,5001n/a
Camptonville Community Center Advocates$5,2001n/a
Planes of Fame Air Museum$5,00010%
Arcata House Partnership$5,00010%
Camptonville Historical Society$5,0001n/a
New Village Arts Inc$5,00011%
Nevada County Historical Society$5,00013%
Ma Series Arts$5,0001n/a
Latino Music Education Network$5,0001n/a
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts$5,00012%
Zaccho Sf$5,00011%
Pasadena Educational Foundation$5,00020%
Story for All$5,00018%
Digital Monkey School Foundation$5,0001n/a
Arts & Culture El Dorado$5,00012%
The Bonita Historical Society$5,00015%
Mil-Tree Veteran Project$5,0001n/a
YOMYOMF Foundation$5,0001100%
Dramaworks a Ca Nonprofit Benefit Corp$5,00013%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$5,00010%
Wordsmith Productions$5,0001n/a
La Familia Counseling Center Inc$5,00010%
Museum of Performance and Design$5,00012%
Friends of the Studio City Branch Library$5,0001n/a
City of Oakland OPRYD$5,0001n/a
Tulare County Library Foundation$5,00012%
Special Service for Groups Inc$5,00010%
Humboldt Historical Society DBA Humboldt County Historical Society$5,00013%
Golden Gate Mens Chorus Aka Dick Kramer Gay Mens Chorale$5,0001n/a
Gender Health Center$5,00011%
California Lgbt Arts Alliance$5,0001n/a
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc$5,00010%
Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Kern Community College District$5,0001n/a
Asian Story Theater$5,0001n/a
Litvak Dance Arts Foundation$5,000114%
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization$5,00013%
New Americans Museum Inc$5,00011%
Japanese American Citizen League$5,0001n/a
Friends of Rancho San Pedro$5,00011%
Humboldt Folklife Society$5,0001n/a
Ecologistics Inc$5,00014%
San Luis Rey Mission Indian Foundation$5,0001n/a
South Asian Network Inc$5,00011%
California Institute of Integral Studies$5,00010%
Veterans Memorial Court Alliance$5,0001n/a
Employers Training Resource$5,0001n/a
Claremont Heritage Inc$5,00012%
San Diego Repertory Theatre Inc$5,00010%
Flights of Fantasy Media Company$5,0001n/a
Placentia Library District$5,0001n/a
Alameda County Board of Supervisors$5,0001n/a
Avenue 50 Studio Inc$5,00013%
Returning Soldiers Speak$5,0001n/a
Monterey Museum of Art$5,00010%
Family Bridges Inc$5,00010%
Newport Beach Public Library Foundation$5,00011%
Chapman University$5,00010%
Heritage Future$5,00013%
Santa Clarita Valley Economic$5,0001n/a
Larry Spring Museum$5,0002n/a
Access Inc$5,00010%
Santa Cruz Art League Inc$5,00013%
Institute for Nonprofit News$5,00010%
City of Sunnyvale - Columbia Neighborhood Center$5,0001n/a
Butte-Glenn Ccd$5,0001n/a
Rural California Broadcasting Corporatio$5,00010%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Kronos Performing Arts Association$5,00010%
City of Commerce Public Library$5,0001n/a
The Chance Theater$5,00011%
Philippine National Day Associaion$5,0001n/a
County of Napa$5,0001n/a
Center for World Music$5,0001n/a
Asociacion Mayab$5,00013%
Occidental College$5,00010%
California Institute of the Arts$5,00010%
EastSide Arts Alliance$5,00011%
Mill Valley Public Library$5,0001n/a
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp$5,00010%
J-Sei Inc$5,00010%
Grupo de Teatro Sinergia-Siner$5,00015%
Voices for Children$5,00010%
Makara Center for the Arts$5,0001n/a
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation$5,00010%
Sitting Room$5,0001n/a
Intrepid Shakespeare Company$5,00012%
Get Empowered Today$5,0001n/a
Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living$5,0001n/a
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center$4,95011%
Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation$4,94610%
California State University Dominguez Hills Philanthropic Foundation$4,50010%
Richmond Art Center$3,41010%

Where it is load-bearing

California Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Documentary Foundation Inc: $366,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWomen Make Movies Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $185,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVisual Communications Media: $132,500 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCommunity Partners: $122,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKalw Public Media Inc: $117,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFilm Independent: $109,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $95,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $90,900 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMuseum of Art and History at the McPherson Center: $90,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Litquake Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $65,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKitchen Sisters: $65,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFilmmakers Collaborative: $64,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetLos Angeles Poverty Department: $62,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetSan Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation: $61,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArhoolie Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLtsc Community Development Corporation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $57,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc: $57,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMuseum of Latin American Art: $55,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTeada Productions: $52,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetInternational Media Project: $50,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetAlliance for California Traditional Arts: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSanta Monica Historical Society: $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOutside the Lens: $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFort Ross Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetEl Teatro Campesino: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMedia Arts Center San Diego: $50,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: $49,121 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLa Plaza de Cultura y Artes: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCsusb Philanthropic Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Oakland Public Education Fund: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Institute for Rural Studies: $45,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMuseum of Sonoma County: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKartemquin Educational Films: $45,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSan Jose State University Research Foundation: $44,567 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum: $44,115 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetAPI Cultural CenterInc Oakland Asian Cultural Center: $43,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGet Lit - Words Ignite Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOxnard Performing Arts Center Corp: $42,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSan Diego Historical Society: $42,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUptown Tenderloin Inc: $42,500 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSociety of California Pioneers: $42,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetThe 1947 Partition Archive: $41,067 over 3y, 13% 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 200.

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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.

The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA74.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The J Paul Getty Trust · Center for Cultural Innovation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The California Endowment · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons 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 Humanities

How much does California Humanities give?
California Humanities reported 41 itemized grants totaling $857,605, out of $1,059,044 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 213 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does California Humanities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Education (15%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are California Humanities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: International Documentary Foundation Inc ($366k), Women Make Movies Inc ($185k), The Center for Independent Documentary Inc ($185k).
Does California Humanities fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Humanities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The J Paul Getty Trust.
Where is California Humanities based?
California Humanities 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 467 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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