How much did California YIMBY grant in FY2020?

California YIMBY reported 2 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

Where is California YIMBY based?

California YIMBY is based in CA.

California YIMBY

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· Public charity

California YIMBY

California YIMBYs mission is to ensure that California is an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.

$60k

Granted FY2020

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2020.

Housing & Shelter$84kCivil Rights$75kCommunity Improvement$15kEnvironment$2kOther$47k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

issues

2020

hispanic businessadvocacy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

CA Renters Legal Advocacy$50,000
CA Hispanic Chambers of Comm$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Coalition for Rural Housing

Promote Affordable Housing

Housing & Shelter

Abundant Housing La

To encourage, advocate for, and support the creation of an equitable and environmentally sustainable region where all current and future Angelenos can afford to live, including through legislation, regulations, and government programs.

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Californians to Stop Higher Property Taxes

To educate the public and policy makers about the history and purpose of California's property tax law.

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California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

California Yimby

California YIMBYs mission is to ensure that California is an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. We advance our mission by:A.)addressing and correcting systemic inequities in California housing laws, and in related laws and…

Housing & Shelter

Mutual Housing California Formerly Known

See schedule o.develop, manage, and support sustainable affordable housing where residents are partners in advancing equitable communities.

Housing & Shelter

Caliifornia Green Building Council

Usgbc california is the local chapter of the united states green building council, inc., formed in 2002 by professionals representing various sectors of the construction industry, ranging from engineers and architects to designers and…

Environment

Council of Community Housing

To provide technical assistance in affordable housing development to community based housing providers

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California Energy Alliance

The California Energy Alliance (CEA) unites representatives of a broad range of organizations concerned about energy and the build environment. As a member-based organization, CEA works to improve California's energy future and migration…

Public Safety & Disaster

CalMatters

To improve Californias democracy by making its government more transparent and accountable and giving Californians the information they need to understand and engage with that government.

Civil Rights

Alliance of Californians for Community

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…

Human Services

California Business Properties Association

To inform california legislators and regulators of concerns to commercial property owners and to inform its members of legislative and regulatory actions.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Schools and Communities First. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

6/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Housing & Shelter$84,000Civil Rights$75,000Other$46,512Community Improvement$15,000Environment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation California YIMBY funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CA Renters Legal Advocacy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475414850 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CA Renters Legal Advocacy, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to California YIMBY?

Find your warmest path to California YIMBY through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

California YIMBY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California YIMBY?

More from the funding graph

California YIMBY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California YIMBY?

More from the funding graph