How much did Californians for Energy Independence grant in FY2024?

Californians for Energy Independence reported 6 grants totaling $239,876 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Californians for Energy Independence based?

Californians for Energy Independence is based in CA.

Californians for Energy Independence

Foundation Dossiers

· 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.

$240k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$118k

Largest

01What you fund

0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Employment$1.3MCommunity Improvement$40kYouth Development$19kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$458k

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $26k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$50k–250k1 grant · $118k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

Ventura Working Families$118,499
Working Californians Research$25,000
Los Angeles LGBT Center$7,500
Fresno Area Hispanic Fdn$6,500
Ventura County Taxpayers Fdtn$6,000
Los Angeles Fire Dept Found$6,000

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 4 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+61%

Still filing today

75%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEmploymentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

WC
Working Californians Research
4× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue -96% · 50% of their budget
LN
LULAC Natl Education Service
2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +23%
LA
Los Angeles Sentinel Inc
3× · 2018–2023 · $40k

Funded once

LN
LULAC Natl Education Service
one grant, 2018 · $50k
CL
California LULAC Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +61%
LA
Los Angeles Urban Leaguegraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +147%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Latino Business Chamber of Greater La

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services

Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los

Economic development of the latino community

Community Improvement

Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the platform for business to provide leadership, education and advocacy so that the Long Beach area thrives in the 21st century.

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Los Angeles Business Council

The los angeles business council uniting the power of business with the power of government for education and advocacy to promote environmental and economic sustainability.

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Californians for Fair Pay and Employer

To support policies and ballot measures to support employment reform.

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Latino Community Foundation

Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california.

Human Services

The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

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 &…

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Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment

Los Angeles County Fire Department

Lacfdf provides support to fire departments and firefighters in la county, and partners with other firefighter support and education groups in supporting the community.

Public Safety & Disaster

Coalition for Responsible and Equitable

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement

Los Angeles City College Foundation

To develop philanthropic support for the students of los angeles city college (lacc).

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Active Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Lgbt Center. 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

18 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)

18/18

Grantees still filing

13/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Employment$1,315,000Other$477,999Community Improvement$39,500Youth Development$19,444Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$11,500Philanthropy$10,000

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.

California Community FoundationCA11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation 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.

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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.

05Through 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: Working Californians Research.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800930362 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 Working Californians Research, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Californians for Energy Independence?

Find your warmest path to Californians for Energy Independence 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.

Californians for Energy Independence

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Californians for Energy Independence?

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Californians for Energy Independence

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Californians for Energy Independence?

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