· Public charity
Californians for Energy Independence
To combat community deterioration, defend human and civil rights secured by law, and promote the common good and social welfare of the people by educating the public and advocating on sensible energy policies which promote economic development and energy security.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $169,499 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $239,876 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,377 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ventura Working Families | $118,499 |
| Working Californians Research | $25,000 |
| Los Angeles LGBT Center | $7,500 |
| Fresno Area Hispanic Fdn | $6,500 |
| Los Angeles Fire Dept Found | $6,000 |
| Ventura County Taxpayers Fdtn | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WCWORKING CALIFORNIANS4× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue -96% · 50% of their budget
- LNLULAC NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +28%
- LALOS ANGELES SENTINEL INC3× · 2018–2023 · $40k
Funded once
- CLCALIFORNIA LULAC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
- LNLULAC Natl Education Serviceone grant, 2018 · $50k
- LALOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.
Economic development of the latino community
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…
The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
To be the partner of choice for all US veterans, ensuring success in their business.
The function of the corporation shall be to ease the burdens of government by assisting, implementing, supporting and/or contributing to the support of programs, projects and activities of a public nature. which are directed toward…
United latinx fund is los angeles' leading foundation and philanthropic resource created for and by latinx that transforms, uplifts and improves our community's quality of life. with generous support from workplace giving campaigns, united…
Promotion and support of latino culture in california, increased participation of latinos and latinas in california society, to educate the public about latino culture and heritage issues of importance to latinos and latinas in california.
Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california. lcf fulfills the mission by building a movement of critically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in latino-led orgs, and increasing civic participation of…
To promote hispanic business, create an atmosphere that encourages the growth of the hispanic business community and to act as an advocate for the hispanic business community.
The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.
Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Lulac Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Paula Community Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WORKING CALIFORNIANS ↗
- Who funds LULAC NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LULAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST LABOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE PLAY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Greater LA African Amer Chamb of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Future Talent of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN VENTURA ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA PAULA COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ART ACTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Californians for Energy Independence 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.
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 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.
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