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Blue Shield of California Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
110
Grants FY2025
65
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$750,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 115
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$82M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Blue Shield of California Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving74$17M27%
FY202465$15M15%
FY202361$17M30%
FY202281$35M21%
FY202183$25M29%
FY2020115$37M51%
FY201976$25M41%
FY201877$17M43%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$48MPhilanthropy$41MCivil Rights$26MHuman Services$25MCommunity Improvement$17MEducation$15MCrime & Legal$10MArts & Culture$9.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Public Health Institute$13,724,01082%
Women's Foundation of California$8,466,050718%
Prevention Institute$6,644,767817%
Futures Without Violence$6,000,000612%
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence$5,860,000847%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$5,556,32072%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas$5,195,441720%
Community Partners$4,768,00094%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$4,244,8337n/a
Policylink$2,850,00044%
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All grantees of Blue Shield of California Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Public Health Institute$13,724,01082%
Women's Foundation of California$8,466,050718%
Prevention Institute$6,644,767817%
Futures Without Violence$6,000,000612%
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence$5,860,000847%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$5,556,32072%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas$5,195,441720%
Community Partners$4,768,00094%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$4,244,8337n/a
Policylink$2,850,00044%
Alliance for Girls$2,833,000449%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$2,673,9006n/a
Jenesse Center Inc$2,629,39087%
CalMatters$2,380,00067%
California Immigrant Policy Center$2,335,000620%
Valorus$2,280,000516%
Freefrom$2,050,000610%
My Sisters House$2,045,000524%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$1,950,00070%
Southern California Grantmakers$1,950,00089%
The Center for Cultural Power$1,925,00034%
Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation$1,834,05051%
California State University Fresno Foundation$1,810,00041%
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network$1,627,250530%
PICO California$1,625,00034%
Public Health Advocates$1,525,00048%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$1,517,00069%
Family Values Work a Multi-State Consortium$1,500,00036%
Gobee Group LLC$1,467,5052n/a
Legal Aid at Work$1,460,00044%
San Francisco Study Center Inc$1,395,00055%
East Los Angeles Women's Center$1,376,50069%
Downtown Women's Center$1,370,00052%
Weave Inc$1,350,00075%
Sbcs Corporation$1,316,00061%
California Budget & Policy Center$1,290,000511%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$1,250,00032%
United Ways of California$1,225,00048%
Fannie E Rippel Foundation$1,150,0003n/a
Health in Partnership$1,150,000316%
Vision y Compromiso$1,130,00059%
County Supervisors Association of Calif$1,111,64837%
De Beaumont Foundation Inc$1,100,00035%
Catalyst California$1,100,00025%
Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc$1,080,31420%
Alliance for Justice$1,015,00054%
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc$1,000,000338%
Vose River Charitable Fund$1,000,00015%
California Black Womens Health Project$985,000422%
Time For Change Foundation$975,70058%
Charitable Ventures of Orange County$960,00045%
Children Now$950,00036%
Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc$950,00048%
California Primary Care Association$935,00036%
Willamette Partnership$910,000328%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$905,00033%
Alliance for Community Transformations$889,552610%
Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc$883,31050%
Young Women's Freedom Center$880,30044%
California Forward$865,000417%
National Academy of Sciences$855,00090%
Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties$850,000711%
Northern California Grantmakers$837,00075%
Small Business Majority Foundation Inc$800,00029%
Deafhope$800,000363%
Aapi Equity Alliance$800,000264%
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health$787,043327%
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth Rjoy$780,000222%
Institute for the Future$771,63825%
Equal Rights Advocates$750,000314%
East Bay Agency for Children$749,57423%
Social Finance Inc$748,68733%
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network$746,800110%
Compasspoint Nonprofit Services$726,995134%
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec$720,000411%
Insure the Uninsured Project$700,000235%
ChangeLab Solutions$700,00033%
Asian Resources Inc$687,17536%
Children's Council of San Francisco$680,00030%
Healing Together$680,0002n/a
The Praxis Project Inc$665,00023%
Grantmakers in Health$625,00072%
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence$624,491216%
Third Sector New England Inc$600,00021%
University of California Davis$600,0001n/a
University of Texas$600,0001n/a
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern$575,00036%
California Community Colleges Calworks Association$565,183258%
Homeboy Industries$554,00031%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$550,00062%
Impact Justice$550,00041%
Urban Habitat Program$550,000215%
National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc$530,00024%
The George Washington University$525,00040%
California Children and Families Foundation Inc$525,00039%
Safe & Sound$504,13941%
The Tahirih Justice Center$500,00032%
National Opinion Research Center$500,00010%
National Immigration Law Center$500,00013%
Child Care Law Center$500,000219%
Asian American Futures$500,000113%
National Health Law Program Inc$450,00023%
Lift Inc$450,00032%
Golden State Opportunity$450,00033%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside$450,0002n/a
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$445,88040%
California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems$425,00027%
National Association of Community Health Centers Inc$424,06311%
Independent Arts & Media$400,00032%
Naleo Educational Fund$400,00022%
Nonprofit Finance Fund$400,00021%
Public Policy Institute of California$400,00021%
Children's Institute Inc$385,00030%
The Aspen Institute Inc$384,67350%
Rainbow Services$360,65336%
Center for Community Change$350,00021%
The Translatin Coalition$340,00022%
The Center for Violence-Free Relationships$325,500120%
Common Cause Education Fund$325,00031%
California Health Foundation and Trust$320,00020%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund$315,0001n/a
Partnership for Americas Children$300,00025%
Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc$300,000214%
Ndn Collective Inc$300,00011%
Hispanics in Philanthropy$300,00031%
Bluepath Health Inc$300,0001n/a
Californians Together$300,0001n/a
Civicpulse Inc$300,000143%
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center$275,00026%
Native American Health Center Inc$271,00021%
Center for Domestic Peace$270,00026%
Stand Up Placer Inc$270,00028%
International Rescue Committee INC$265,23620%
Health Education Council$260,93728%
Economic Security Project Inc$260,00022%
The California Health Care Safety-Net Institute$250,00027%
New America Foundation$250,00011%
San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters$250,0001n/a
Community Initiatives$250,00020%
Evidence for Healthcare Improvement$250,00012%
Candid$250,00011%
The Children's Partnership$250,00035%
Mei Fong and Associates Aws$246,000110%
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation$240,85110%
Family Violence Law Center$235,00033%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$235,00021%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$225,00043%
Criterion Institute$225,000117%
Peace Over Violence$220,0002n/a
The Watsonville Law Center$210,000212%
Institute for Healthcare Communication$202,803118%
Uc Law Sf Foundation$200,00012%
Community Forward SF Inc$200,00011%
Afrola Media Group$200,0001n/a
Chinese Progressive Association$200,00011%
The Cambodian Family$200,000113%
Access California Services$200,00019%
Casa Familiar Inc$200,00015%
Todec Legal Center Perris$200,000111%
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno$200,00024%
Korean Resource Center Inc$200,00019%
Reinvent Stockton Foundation$200,00011%
Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice$200,000114%
Working Partnerships USA$200,00012%
Dolores C Huerta Foundation$200,00014%
Farmworkers Institute Educational Leadership$200,00012%
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander$200,00012%
Latino Health Access$200,00012%
Somali Family Service of San Diego$200,000115%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc$200,00060%
Fii - National$190,50010%
WOMAN Inc$180,000217%
Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc$177,00023%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$176,00023%
Growth Philanthropy Network Inc$175,00026%
The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center$175,00020%
Asian Health Services$171,00030%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center$171,00020%
The OpEd Project Public Knowledge Fund Inc$170,000155%
Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County$150,00013%
Merced County Department of Public Health$150,0001n/a
Roadtrip Nation Ltd$150,00013%
Museum of Childrens Art$150,0001n/a
Movement Strategy Center$150,00011%
Nourish California$150,00017%
California Association of Food Banks$150,00010%
Capital Link Inc$150,00015%
Alliance for Hope International$150,00014%
Joyful Heart Foundation$150,00013%
Capital & Main$150,00023%
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation$150,00013%
Siskiyou Community Services Council$149,050145%
Success Stories Program$140,00027%
Community Justice Center$140,000211%
Center for the Study of Social Policy$137,24711%
FUSE Corps$125,0001n/a
Black Freedom Fund$125,0001n/a
Korean American Family Services Inc$125,00013%
Bay Area Council Foundation$125,00013%
Community United Against Violence Inc$120,000211%
A Safe Place$115,0001n/a
Inter-Tribal Council of California Inc$111,0001n/a
California Black Media$110,00013%
Communities Lifting Communities$110,00016%
Michigan Public Health Institute$100,00010%
Faith in the Valley$100,00012%
Chinese for Affirmative Action$100,00010%
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement$100,00014%
Cultiva La Salud$100,00012%
Justice in Aging$100,00011%
Alameda Health System Foundation$100,00014%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$100,00011%
Community Health Partnership Inc$100,00013%
Ccf Community Initiatives Fund$100,00011%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk$100,0001n/a
Black Women for Wellness$100,00014%
Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund$100,00011%
Family Violence Appellate Project$100,00024%
California Rural Indian Health Board Inc$100,00010%
Horn of Africa Community of North America$100,00018%
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center$100,00019%
Safe Alternatives To Violent Environments$95,00023%
Define American Inc$90,00012%
Capacity Shop$85,0001n/a
Inland Counties Legal Services$80,0001n/a
Sacred Heart Community Service$77,50010%
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc$75,00022%
Positive Results Center$75,000115%
Equality California Institute$75,0001n/a
Healthy Black Families Inc$75,00018%
Grace$75,00012%
North County Health Project Inc$71,00010%
Academyhealth$65,00020%
Warehouse Worker Resource Center$65,0001n/a
Healthright 360$57,00010%
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Faith in Action Network$50,0001n/a
Walking Iris Media$50,00013%
Mary Ann Liebert Inc$50,0001n/a
Comite Civico del Valle Inc$50,00011%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc$50,00012%
Accelerator for America$50,00013%
Caring Across Generations Inc$50,0001n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$50,00010%
Council on American-Islamic Relations California$50,00011%
Alliance for Health Policy$50,00011%
Southern California Public Radio$50,00010%
Center for Health Care Strategies Inc$50,00011%
Health Level Seven International Inc$50,00010%
YMCA of San Diego County$50,00010%
Asset Funders Network$50,00011%
Access Reproductive Justice$50,00011%
The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc$41,00010%
Indian Health Council Inc$41,0001n/a
SafeQuest Solano Inc$40,00013%
Elica Health Centers$37,00010%
Urban Community Action Project Dba Health to Hope Clinics$37,00011%
YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena$35,00021%
St Vincent de Paul Village Inc$31,00020%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$30,00010%
AAPI Women Lead$30,00017%
Gofundmeorg$30,00010%
Vista Rise Collective$25,00011%
California Indian Legal Services Inc$25,0001n/a
Wild Iris Family Counseling & Crisis Center$25,00012%
Asian Law Caucus$25,00010%
Plumas Rural Services Inc$25,00011%
Contina Impact$25,0001n/a
Casa de Esperanza$25,0001n/a
United Way Inc$25,00010%
Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center Inc Lyric$25,00011%
California Coverage & Health Initiatives$25,00011%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25,00010%
Healthbegins LLC$25,0001n/a
Palm Springs Air Museum Inc$25,00010%
Social Action Partners$25,00017%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$25,00010%
Wilmington Community Clinic$21,00010%
Pediatric and Family Medical Center Dba Eisner Health$21,00010%
St Anthony Foundation$21,0001n/a
Petaluma Health Center Inc$21,00010%
Alliance Medical Center Inc$21,00010%
Aria Community Health Center$21,00010%
Mayview Community Health Center Inc$21,00010%
Equity Health$21,00010%
Altura Centers for Health$21,00010%
Northeast Community Clinic$21,00010%
Peach Tree Healthcare$21,00010%
Salud Para la Gente$21,00010%
Community Medical Centers Inc$21,00010%
Livingston Community Health$21,00010%
Marin Community Clinic$21,00010%
Nhan Hoa Comprehensive Health Care Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Community Health Alliance of Pasadena$21,00010%
McLoud Healthcare Clinic Inc$21,00011%
Arroyo Vista Family Health Foundation$21,00010%
Lestonnac Free Clinic$21,00011%
MACT Health Board Incorporated American Indian Tribal Organization$21,00010%
Big Sur Health Center Inc$21,00013%
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Inc$21,00010%
Camino Health Center$21,00010%
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest$21,00010%
Clinica Msr Oscar a Romero$21,00010%
Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation$21,00010%
Coppertower Family Med Ctr Inc Dba Alexander Valley Healthcare$21,00010%
AAA Comprehensive Healthcare Inc$21,00012%
The Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Slo Noor Foundation a Non-Profit Corporation$21,00012%
Pomona Community Health Center$21,00010%
Imperial Beach Community Clinic$21,00010%
Ashland Free Medical Clinic$21,000153%
Axis Community Health Inc$21,00010%
San Benito Health Foundation$21,00010%
United American Indian Involvement Inc$21,00010%
University Muslim Medical Association Inc$21,00010%
Clinica Sierra Vista$21,00010%
East Valley Community Health Center Inc$21,00010%
Ritter Center$21,0001n/a
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc$21,00010%
Bay Area Community Health$21,00010%
Mission Area Health Associates$21,00010%
Shingletown Medical Center$21,00011%
El Dorado Community Health Center$21,00010%
Sonoma Valley Community Health Center$21,00010%
Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc$21,00010%
Pit River Health Service$21,0001n/a
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'$21,00010%
Marin City Health and Wellness Center$21,00010%
Northeast Valley Health Corporation$21,00010%
Conejo Free Clinic$21,00013%
San Diego Family Care$21,00010%
Baart Community Healthcare$21,00010%
Samuel Dixon Family Health Center Inc$21,00011%
Family Health Centers of San Diego Inc$21,00010%
Herald Christian Health Center$21,00010%
Wellspace Health$21,00010%
Community Health Systems Inc$21,00010%
Omni Family Health$21,00010%
Serve the People Inc$21,00010%
Clinicas del Camino Real Inc$21,00010%
Alta Family Health Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Santa Cruz Community Health Centers$21,00010%
Sierra Family Medical Clinic Inc$21,00011%
Westside Family Health Center$21,00010%
Health and Life Organization Inc$21,00010%
Los Angeles Christian Health Centers$21,00010%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$21,00010%
Via Care Community Health Center$21,00010%
South Bay Family Healthcare Center$21,00010%
Southern Indian Health Council$21,00010%
MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity$21,00010%
Mountain Valleys Health Centers$21,00010%
San Francisco Free Clinic$21,00011%
All Inclusive Community Health Cent$21,00011%
The Jewish Community Free Clinic$21,000110%
La Maestra Family Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Long Valley Health Center$21,00011%
The Rector Wardens & Vestry of the Church of Our Saviour in San$21,0001n/a
Castle Family Health Centers Inc$21,00010%
Mendocino Coast Clinics Inc$21,00010%
Consolidated Tribal Health Project Inc$21,00010%
Laguna Beach Community Clinic$21,00011%
Gracelight Community Health$21,00010%
Communicare Health Centers$21,00010%
Antelope Valley Community Clinic$21,00010%
Friends of Family Health Center$21,00010%
Mendocino Community Health Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Chapa-De Indian Health Program Inc$21,00010%
Operation Samahan Inc$21,00010%
Coalinga Valley Health Clinics Inc$21,00011%
Ole Health$21,00010%
Livingstone Community Development Corporation$21,00013%
Centro de Salud de la Comunidad de San Ysidro Inc$21,00010%
Gardner Family Health Network Inc$21,00010%
Altamed Health Services Corporation$21,00010%
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc$21,00010%
St Anthony Medical Centers$21,00010%
Greenville Rancheria$21,0001n/a
Neighborhood Healthcare$21,00010%
Central Neighborhood Health Foundation$21,00010%
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc$21,00010%
La Clinica de la Raza Inc$21,00010%
Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc$21,00010%
East Valley Community Clinic Inc$21,00011%
Samaritan House$21,00010%
Venice Family Clinic$21,00010%
Share Our Selves Corporation$21,00010%
Central City Community Health Center Inc$21,00010%
Community Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc$21,00010%
Round Valley Indian Health Center Inc$21,0001n/a
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center Inc$21,00010%
Winters Healthcare Foundation Inc$21,00011%
Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic$21,00016%
Hill Country Community Clinic$21,00010%
Family Healthcare Network$21,00010%
Garfield Health Center$21,00010%
CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS$21,00011%
Anderson Valley Health Center Inc$21,00011%
Redwood Coast Medical Services Inc$21,00010%
Western Sierra Medical Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Open Door Community Health Centers$21,00010%
Korean Health Education Information and Research Center$21,00010%
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara County$21,00010%
Feather River Tribal Health Inc$21,0001n/a
San Diego American Indian Health Center$21,00010%
Mathiesen Memorial Health Clinic$21,00011%
Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation$21,00011%
St James Infirmary$21,0001n/a
West County Health Centers Inc$21,00010%
Alliance Health Clinic Inc$21,00014%
Camarena Health$21,00010%
Vista Community Clinic$21,00010%
Redwoods Rural Health Center Inc$21,00010%
North East Medical Services$21,00010%
Free Clinic of Simi Valley$21,00016%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics$21,00010%
Curry Senior Center$21,00011%
Planned Parenthoodorange and San Bernardino Counties Inc$21,00010%
The Achievable Foundation$21,00011%
Family Health Care Centers of Greater Los Angeles$21,00010%
Reproductive Health Care Center Inc$21,00011%
Valley Community Healthcare$21,00010%
Sacramento Native American Health Center$21,00010%
All Care One Community Health Center$21,00019%
Mountain Health & Community Services Inc$21,00010%
Ampla Health$21,00010%
Chinatown Service Center$21,00010%
Rotacare Bay Area Inc$21,00012%
Karuk Tribe$21,0001n/a
All for Health Health for All Inc$21,00010%
Jwch Institute Inc$21,00010%
Coastal Health Alliance$21,00010%
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families$21,00010%
St John's Community Health$21,00010%
American Indian Health & Services$21,00010%
Harbor Community Clinic Inc$21,00010%
Golden Valley Health Centers$21,00010%
Borrego Community Health Foundation$21,00010%
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers$21,00010%
Sonoma County Indian Health Project Inc$21,00010%
Shasta Community Health Center$21,00010%
Comprehensive Community Health Centers Inc$21,00010%
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast$21,00010%
Southern California Medical Center Inc$21,00010%
I'Sot Inc$21,00011%
Lifelong Medical Care$21,00010%
Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo Inc$21,00010%
Hurtt Family Health Clinic Inc$21,00010%
The Young Women's Christian Association of Sonoma County$20,00011%
Laura's House$20,00011%
Human Response Network Inc$20,0001n/a
The Open Door Network$20,00011%
Interval House$20,0001n/a
Community Solutions for Children Families and Individuals$20,00010%
Haven Hills Inc$20,00011%
Family Assistance Program$20,00011%
Ruby's Place Inc$20,00011%
Interface Children Family Services$20,00010%
Emmaus House$20,00017%
Central California Family Crisis Center$20,00011%
Good Shepherd Shelter of Los Angeles$20,00011%
Catalyst Domestic Violence Services$20,00011%
Shelter From the Storm Inc$20,0001n/a
Marjaree Mason Center Inc$20,00010%
Donaldina Cameron House$20,0001n/a
Cornerstone Community Development Corporation$20,00010%
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter$20,00012%
Family Services of Tulare County Inc$20,00010%
Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence$20,00011%
Stand for Families Free of Violence$20,00010%
Community Resource Center$20,00011%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$20,00010%
Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center$20,00011%
Monarch Services-Servicios Monarca$20,00011%
Healthy Alternatives to Violent Environm$20,00011%
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency$20,00012%
Humboldt Domestic Violence Services$20,00013%
Center for Community Solutions$20,00010%
Su Casa - Ending Domestic Violence$20,00012%
Shepherds Door$20,0001n/a
House of Ruth Inc$20,00011%
Operation Care$20,00012%
Niswa Association Inc$20,000110%
Kene Me Wu Family Healing Center$20,0001n/a
Option House$20,00012%
1736 Family Crisis Center$20,0001n/a
The Resource Connection of Amador and Calaveras Counties Inc$20,00010%
Empower Yolo Inc$20,00011%
Human Options Inc$20,00010%
Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center of Orange County$20,00011%
Safe Family Justice Centers$20,00013%
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation for Expanding Health Care Access$20,0001n/a
La Casa de las Madres$20,00011%
Antelope Valley Domestic Violence Council$20,00010%
YWCA of San Gabriel Valley$20,00010%
License to Freedom$20,000113%
Siskiyou Domestic Violence & Crisis Center$20,00013%
YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley$20,00010%
Doves of Big Bear Valley Inc$20,00012%
Korean Community Center of the East Bay$20,00013%
Coalition for Family Harmony$20,00011%
Tri-Valley Haven For Women$20,00011%
Lassen Family Services Inc$20,00011%
Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County$20,00011%
A Community for Peace$20,0001n/a
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse$20,00010%
Alpha House A Place for New Beginnings$20,0001n/a
Lake Family Resource Center$20,00011%
Rural Human Services$20,00011%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles$20,00010%
Womens Resource Center$20,0001n/a
Maitri$20,0001n/a
Center for a Non Violent Community$20,00012%
Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House$20,00011%
Womenshelter of Long Beach$20,00011%
Training Employment & Community Help Inc$20,00011%
Westside Domestic Violence Shelter$20,000114%
News$20,0001n/a
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$20,00010%
Kings Community Action Organization Inc$20,00010%
Womanhaven a Center for Family Solutions$20,00011%
Women's Center-High Desert Inc$20,0001n/a
Morongo Basin Unity Home$20,00012%
Womens Transitional Living Center Inc Radiant Futures$20,00011%
Prevail Ca$20,00010%
Southern California Alcohol and Drug Programs Inc$20,00010%
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul$20,00010%
Riverside County Coalition for Alternatives to Domestic Violence$20,0001n/a
Round Valley Indian Tribes$20,0001n/a
Shasta Women's Refuge Inc Dba One Safe Place$20,00011%
Community Action Partnership of Madera County Inc$20,00010%
Victor Valley Domestic Violence Inc$20,0001n/a
Rise San Luis Obispo County$20,00011%
Saint John's Program for Real Change$20,00010%
Narika$20,000111%
Project Sanctuary Inc$20,0001n/a
The People Concern$20,00010%
The YWCA Monterey County$20,00012%
YWCA of San Diego County$20,00011%
Community Homeless Solutions$20,00011%
The Desert Sanctuary Inc$20,00012%
Womens Crisis Shelter of Humboldt County$20,000143%
Black Californians United for Early Care and Education$19,02412%
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum$15,00010%
Anti Police-Terror Project Inc$12,34110%
Neighborhood Associates Corporation$10,00011%
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science$10,00010%
The Ceres Community Project$10,00010%
Mission City Community Network Inc$8,00010%
Ochin Inc$5,00010%
Families USA Foundation Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Blue Shield of California Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPublic Health Institute: $13,724,010 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetWomen's Foundation of California: $8,466,050 over 7y, 18% of budgetPrevention Institute: $6,644,767 over 8y, 17% of budgetFutures Without Violence: $6,000,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCalifornia Partnership to End Domestic Violence: $5,860,000 over 8y, 47% of budgetSierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management: $5,556,320 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $5,195,441 over 7y, 20% of budgetCommunity Partners: $4,768,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetPolicylink: $2,850,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetAlliance for Girls: $2,833,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $2,629,390 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCalMatters: $2,380,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetCalifornia Immigrant Policy Center: $2,335,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetValorus: $2,280,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFreefrom: $2,050,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetMy Sisters House: $2,045,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $1,950,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern California Grantmakers: $1,950,000 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetThe Center for Cultural Power: $1,925,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHenry J Kaiser Family Foundation: $1,834,050 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Foundation: $1,810,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network: $1,627,250 over 5y, 30% of budgetPICO California: $1,625,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPublic Health Advocates: $1,525,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetGrantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees: $1,517,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetFamily Values Work a Multi-State Consortium: $1,500,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $1,460,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSan Francisco Study Center Inc: $1,395,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetEast Los Angeles Women's Center: $1,376,500 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetDowntown Women's Center: $1,370,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWeave Inc: $1,350,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetSbcs Corporation: $1,316,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCalifornia Budget & Policy Center: $1,290,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $1,250,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUnited Ways of California: $1,225,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetHealth in Partnership: $1,150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetVision y Compromiso: $1,130,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCounty Supervisors Association of Calif: $1,111,648 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetDe Beaumont Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCatalyst California: $1,100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetJsi Research & Training Institute Inc: $1,080,314 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Justice: $1,015,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetFuller Project for International Reporting Inc: $1,000,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetVose River Charitable Fund: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCalifornia Black Womens Health Project: $985,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $975,700 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetCharitable Ventures of Orange County: $960,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetChildren Now: $950,000 over 3y, 5.6% 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.

Women's Foundation of CaliforniaCA240.6× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Women's Foundation of California · California Healthcare Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · California Primary Care Association · Essential Access Health · Sunlight Giving · Weingart Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Direct Relief · Delta Dental Community Care 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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Find your warmest path to Blue Shield of California Foundation 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 Blue Shield of California Foundation

How much does Blue Shield of California Foundation give?
Blue Shield of California Foundation reported 110 grants totaling $20,231,699 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 115 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Blue Shield of California Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Philanthropy (19%), Civil Rights (12%).
Who are Blue Shield of California Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Public Health Institute ($14M), Women's Foundation of California ($8.5M), Prevention Institute ($6.6M).
Does Blue Shield of California Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blue Shield of California Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Shield of California Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Women's Foundation of California, California Healthcare Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is Blue Shield of California Foundation based?
Blue Shield of California Foundation is based in San Francisco, 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 634 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-PF 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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