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California School Employees Association at a glance

· Public charity

California School Employees Association

The association's primary purpose is to enhance the professional lives of classified employees statewide, through representation, training, collective bargaining, and political/legislative advocacy.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$290kPublic Benefit$200kHuman Services$66kHealth$56kCommunity Improvement$30kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $267,121 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $162,121 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$354M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL & MAIN INVESTIGATING POWER AND POLITICS$50,000
HOTEL EMPLOYEES RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LOCAL UNION 19$15,000
CALIFORNIA TAX REFORM ASSOCIATION$15,000
KVIE INC$10,000
CALIFORNIANS DEDICATED TO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$8,000
LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE$7,000
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 (FY20–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CSEA ASSISTANCE FUND: $20k → 8%CSEA ASSISTANCE FUND: $20k → 8%CSEA ASSISTANCE FUND: $20k → 8%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$548k · 5 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$548k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CAPITAL & MAIN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $365k · revenue +186%
  • CA
    CSEA ASSISTANCE FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +97%
  • LC
    LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • POWERSWITCH ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • CT
    CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue +8%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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
California Federation of Teachers Disaster Relief Fund
Membership Benefit
2
California Teachers Association

Contract negotiation for teachers

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3
California Teachers Association-Ssfcta South San Francisco Classroom Teachers

Labor union

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4
California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation
Education
5
California Teachers Association-Smeta San Mateo Elementary Teachers Assoc

Labor union.

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6
California Employers Association

Provide all member employers with current human resource and California labor law information.

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7
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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8
Carpinteria Association United School Employees Aft Local 2216

California teachers union

Employment
9
California Retired Teachers As

To support public education and promote the professional interest of public school educators, and protect interest in retirement benefits.

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10
Unite Here Local 49

Labor organization providing collective bargaining representation to its membership.

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11
California Teachers Association Liberty Education Association

Labor union representing teacher interests for 375 teachers.

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12
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Teachers Association; the most unlike its peers is Kvie Inc. 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

10 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.

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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPITAL & MAIN: $365,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MAIN+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePOWERSWITCH ACTION: $50,200 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH A…CALIFORNIA TAX REFORM ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA TA…CSEA ASSISTANCE FUND: $60,000 · Human ServicesCSEA ASSIST…CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $6,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA …LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE: $56,000 · HealthLABOR CAM…CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $38,280 · OtherCALIFORNI…Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees Local Union 19: $15,000 · OtherHotel Emp…Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation: $36,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$375,000Community Improvement$80,200Human Services$66,000Health$56,000Other$53,280Youth Development$36,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $365,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCSEA ASSISTANCE FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetLABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE: $56,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $50,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $38,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation: $36,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA TAX REFORM ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetKVIE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 School Employees Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California School Employees Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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