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California Issues Forum

Promote social welfare by educating the public and providing a forum to discuss topical issues of community interest.

$95k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$80k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$80,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$923k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations California Issues Forum funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20211$80k100%
FY20201$25k0%
FY20191$25k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Public Benefit$130kEducation$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
21st Century Alliance$80,000122%
California Forward$50,00021%
Sacramento Public Policy Foru$10,0001n/a

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How do I get to California Issues Forum?

Find your warmest path to California Issues Forum 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.

About California Issues Forum

How much does California Issues Forum give?
California Issues Forum reported 1 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $95,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does California Issues Forum fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (93%), Education (7%).
Who are California Issues Forum's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: 21st Century Alliance ($80k), California Forward ($50k), Sacramento Public Policy Foru ($10k).
Does California Issues Forum fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is California Issues Forum based?
California Issues Forum 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 3 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $22k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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