How much does California ReLeaf give?

California ReLeaf reported 10 itemized grants totaling $79,940, out of $160,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does California ReLeaf fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Community Improvement (3%).

Who are California ReLeaf's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sustainable Claremont ($233k), Amigos de Los Rios ($227k), North East Trees Inc ($169k).

Does California ReLeaf fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as California ReLeaf?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The San Francisco Foundation, National Arbor Day Foundation.

Where is California ReLeaf based?

California ReLeaf is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

California ReLeaf

California Releaf's mission is to empower grassroots efforts and build strategic partnerships that preserve, protect and enhance California's urban and community forests.

$160k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Itemized grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $80k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $8,696
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,189
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 29; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $709k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations California ReLeaf funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentFood & NutritionEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$80k	80%
FY2024	13	$557k	0%
FY2023	22	$614k	27%
FY2022	29	$608k	45%
FY2021	18	$473k	39%
FY2020	24	$827k	83%
FY2018	14	$303k	14%
FY2017	17	$300k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$3.7MRecreation & Sports$230kCommunity Improvement$147kHuman Services$139kEducation$99kFood & Nutrition$54kArts & Culture$48kReligion$47kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Claremont	$233,023	8	33%
Amigos de Los Rios	$226,658	5	4%
North East Trees Inc	$169,374	7	3%
California ReLeaf	$156,408	2	6%
Common Vision	$138,473	5	8%
Redding Parks Foundation	$121,389	4	12%
Treepeople Inc	$117,523	3	0%
Clean & Green Pomona	$116,435	3	n/a
Butte Environmental Council	$113,549	4	30%
Circuit Rider Community Services	$104,999	4	6%

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All grantees of California ReLeaf by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Claremont	$233,023	8	33%
Amigos de Los Rios	$226,658	5	4%
North East Trees Inc	$169,374	7	3%
California ReLeaf	$156,408	2	6%
Common Vision	$138,473	5	8%
Redding Parks Foundation	$121,389	4	12%
Treepeople Inc	$117,523	3	0%
Clean & Green Pomona	$116,435	3	n/a
Butte Environmental Council	$113,549	4	30%
Circuit Rider Community Services	$104,999	4	6%
North Coast Opportunities Inc	$99,965	2	0%
California Climate Action Now	$87,975	2	n/a
Chicana Directors Initiative	$83,111	3	n/a
Earth Island Institute Inc	$82,758	1	0%
Oroville Botanic Garden and Educational Center	$79,721	3	n/a
Watsonville Wetlands Watch	$78,060	3	3%
Calipatria Chamber of Commerce	$74,918	2	59%
Urban Corps of San Diego County	$72,222	2	0%
Tree Fresno	$71,195	3	8%
From Lot to Spot	$69,104	4	n/a
Tree San Diego	$64,410	2	10%
Madera Coalition of Community Justice	$62,339	2	2%
Southeast Fresno Community Economic Development Assn	$62,076	3	25%
Paradise Recreation and Park District	$61,428	2	n/a
Center for Regenerative Agriculture	$58,399	2	22%
Earthteam	$50,542	2	8%
California Climate Action Now	$50,247	2	n/a
People and Trees Inc	$48,236	2	n/a
Episcopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charities	$47,437	2	4%
Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation	$47,330	2	2%
Puentes	$43,999	2	n/a
Green Technical Education and Employment	$43,995	3	3%
Yuba Sutter Regional Arts Council	$35,836	3	4%
A Cleaner Greener East La	$33,160	1	n/a
Friends of Santa Ana Zoo	$33,072	1	3%
Pacific Housing Inc	$30,753	2	0%
Our City Forest	$30,483	1	2%
Fathers and Families of San Joaquin	$26,957	1	1%
City of Petaluma	$26,776	1	n/a
Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo	$24,983	2	5%
Lumbercycle	$23,991	2	11%
Woodland Tree Foundation	$23,337	2	n/a
Regional Parks Foundation	$18,387	1	0%
Empowerment Works Inc	$15,417	1	1%
Your Childrens Trees	$15,063	1	n/a
Avenal Historical Society	$15,058	1	n/a
City Trees	$14,942	1	n/a
The Watershed Project	$13,775	1	2%
Victoria Avenue Forever	$12,337	1	n/a
San Bernardino Fatherhood	$12,130	1	10%
United Latinos Promoviendo Accion Civica	$10,189	1	n/a
Social and Environmental Entr	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda	$10,000	1	n/a
Los Amigos De Guadalupe California	$9,660	1	n/a
Ventura Tree Alliance	$8,696	1	n/a
Sustainable Solano Inc	$8,136	1	1%
Little Manila Rising	$8,000	1	n/a
El Dorado Community Health Center	$7,000	1	0%
The Climate Center	$6,639	1	0%
Canopy	$6,500	1	0%
San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust	$6,164	1	0%
Sisters in Birth	$5,500	1	2%
Food Exploration and Discovery	$5,500	1	2%
Rebuilding Together Petaluma Inc	$5,086	1	0%
Koreatown Youth and Community Center	$5,022	1	0%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.

California ReLeaf supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 43.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA20× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The San Francisco Foundation · National Arbor Day Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Resources Legacy Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · The California Wellness 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 ReLeaf

How much does California ReLeaf give?: California ReLeaf reported 10 itemized grants totaling $79,940, out of $160,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does California ReLeaf fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (77%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are California ReLeaf's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sustainable Claremont ($233k), Amigos de Los Rios ($227k), North East Trees Inc ($169k).
Does California ReLeaf fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as California ReLeaf?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The San Francisco Foundation, National Arbor Day Foundation.
Where is California ReLeaf based?: California ReLeaf is based in CA.