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Carestar Foundation

TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS, WE USE A RACIAL EQUITY LENS TO FUND AND ADVOCATE FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$8.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.7MCrime & Legal$1.2MEducation$912kYouth Development$893kHuman Services$795kArts & Culture$650kCommunity Improvement$484kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
$115,866
Median grant
3
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES$750,000
Individual grant recipient$333,333
Individual grant recipient$333,333
NUESTRA COMUNIDAD$250,000
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER$250,000
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY$250,000
SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL$233,333
CA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AUTHORITY$200,000
CITY OF EUREKA$200,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UCSF$158,333
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UCSF$158,333
SAN RAMON VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION$150,000
HEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA)$150,000
HEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA)$150,000
KINGS VIEW$150,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH RECOVERY CONNECTIONS: $333k → 7%SERVICES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS & EDUCATION NETWORK: $2k → 8%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $300k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $200k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $185k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Carestar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Carestar Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 25 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
44

Total granted

$11M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+51%

Still filing today

68%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic 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

  • PH
    PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +36%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +29%
  • SC
    SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $492k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SR
    SUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +4%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2019 · $463k
  • Public Health Institutegraduated
    2× · 2020–2022 · $420k · revenue +33%

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.

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Equity Health

Our mission is to ensure health care access to quality comprehensive health care services for persons who are medically needy or medically under-served and have traditionally experienced difficulty in getting care from traditional sources.

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2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
4
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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9
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

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10
Physicians for a Healthy California

Physicians for a Healthy California is dedicated to improving community health, growing a diverse physician workforce and promoting health equity. Our programs continue to improve public health, provide clinical practice support and…

Health
11
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…

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12
Street Level Health Project

Health Care for All is the heart of the Oakland-based grassroots organization Street Level Health Project Street Level. Incorporated in 2001, Street Level is a critical entry point into the healthcare and social service system for those…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Youth Recovery Connections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%7%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%9%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
14%
16,165/113,299

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $999,999 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $497,812 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $463,420 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIACity of Eureka — $425,000 · OtherCity of EurekaHEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION — $407,000 · OtherYOUTH ALIVE — $300,000 · OtherHEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA) — $300,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA BRIDGE PROGRAM (PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE) — $280,000 · Other+46 more — $3,994,283 · Other+46 morePUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES — $2,770,000 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDA…SUTTER COAST HOSPITAL — $491,666 · HealthSUTTER COAST HOSPITALCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network — $434,500 · HealthCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health NetworkPublic Health Institute — $420,000 · HealthPublic Health InstituteKINGS VIEW — $300,000 · HealthJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $300,000 · HealthSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC — $225,000 · HealthWELLSPACE HEALTH — $225,000 · Health+7 more — $714,859 · Health+7 moreLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $750,000 · EducationLOMA LINDA…University of the Pacific — $427,424 · EducationUniversity…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $225,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…BAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM — $200,001 · EducationBAY AREA Y…THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $79,182 · Education+2 more — $20,000 · EducationInterface Children Family Services — $600,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH RECOVERY CONNECTIONS — $333,333 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE — $185,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $500,000 · Arts & CulturePrevention Institute — $300,000 · Arts & CultureNUESTRA COMUNIDAD — $750,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 · Environment+1 more — $2,500 · Environment
Other$7,667,514Health$6,381,025Education$1,701,607Human Services$1,120,333Arts & Culture$800,000Public Safety & Disaster$780,000Environment$302,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES — $2,770,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNUESTRA COMUNIDAD — $750,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetInterface Children Family Services — $600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSUTTER COAST HOSPITAL — $491,666 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network — $434,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific — $427,424 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Health Institute — $420,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION — $407,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetYOUTH RECOVERY CONNECTIONS — $333,333 over 1y, 90% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS VIEW — $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH ALIVE — $300,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPrevention Institute — $300,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Works Alliance — $250,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC — $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPACE HEALTH — $225,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAY AREA YOUTH EMT PROGRAM — $200,001 over 3y, 37% of budgetSUPPORT FOR ACTIVELY RISING YOUTH — $200,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE — $185,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetAnti Police-Terror Project Inc — $180,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTabi MOMS — $162,500 over 2y, 59% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA EMS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $79,182 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANDREW LEVITT CENTER FOR SOCIAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE — $62,359 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSan Francisco Fire Youth Academy — $50,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOR BEHAVORIAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPARAMEDIC RESOURCES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUC BERKELEY CHICANO LATINO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetRYSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUBY'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherds Gate — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…East Bay Community Fo…The California Wellne…California Physicians…Public Health Institu…California Healthcare…The San Francisco Fou…Sierra Health Foundat…United Way of the Bay…Sierra Health Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…
The California EndowmentCA30.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Public Health Institute · California Healthcare Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Silicon Valley Community 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 Carestar Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Carestar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carestar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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