How much does Carestar Foundation give?

Carestar Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $5,274,463 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Carestar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Public Safety & Disaster (20%), Crime & Legal (6%).

Who are Carestar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Public Health Advocates ($2.8M), Nuestra Comunidad ($750k), Interface Children Family Services ($600k).

Does Carestar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carestar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Carestar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, East Bay Community Foundation.

Where is Carestar Foundation based?

Carestar Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

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. Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2024: 35
Organizations funded FY2023: 63%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $115,866
Largest grant, FY2024: $750,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 35; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $61M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Carestar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	31	$5.0M	52%
FY2023	35	$4.9M	63%
FY2022	26	$3.0M	81%
FY2021	15	$2.0M	87%
FY2019	13	$2.7M	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Public Health Advocates	$2,770,000	5	18%
Nuestra Comunidad	$750,000	3	25%
Interface Children Family Services	$600,000	3	2%
Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation	$500,000	1	19%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center	$500,000	2	12%
University of California San Francisco	$497,812	2	n/a
Sutter Coast Hospital	$491,666	2	0%
Regents of the University of California	$463,420	1	n/a
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network	$434,500	4	5%
University of the Pacific	$427,424	2	0%

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All grantees of Carestar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Public Health Advocates	$2,770,000	5	18%
Nuestra Comunidad	$750,000	3	25%
Interface Children Family Services	$600,000	3	2%
Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation	$500,000	1	19%
California Indian Museum & Cultural Center	$500,000	2	12%
University of California San Francisco	$497,812	2	n/a
Sutter Coast Hospital	$491,666	2	0%
Regents of the University of California	$463,420	1	n/a
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network	$434,500	4	5%
University of the Pacific	$427,424	2	0%
City of Eureka	$425,000	2	n/a
Public Health Institute	$420,000	2	0%
Health Access Foundation	$407,000	2	8%
Youth Recovery Connections	$333,333	1	90%
Kings View	$300,000	2	0%
Youth Alive	$300,000	3	5%
John Muir Health Foundation	$300,000	2	1%
Prevention Institute	$300,000	3	3%
National Indian Justice Center	$250,000	1	n/a
Public Works Alliance	$250,000	2	10%
Soledad Enrichment Action Inc	$225,000	1	2%
Wellspace Health	$225,000	1	0%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$225,000	1	0%
Bay Area Youth EMT Program	$200,001	3	37%
Support for Actively Rising Youth	$200,000	2	55%
San Francisco Village	$185,000	2	16%
Anti Police-Terror Project Inc	$180,000	3	3%
Tabi MOMS	$162,500	2	59%
Exhaling Injustice	$150,000	2	n/a
Northern California EMS Inc	$150,000	1	15%
True North Organizing Network	$100,000	1	19%
Cristo Rey de la Salle East Bay High School Inc	$90,000	3	n/a
Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation	$85,000	1	11%
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University	$79,182	1	0%
Health Resources in Action Inc	$75,000	2	0%
United Way of San Joaquin County	$75,000	1	7%
The Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine	$62,359	1	8%
San Francisco Fire Youth Academy	$50,000	1	52%
Stanislaus County Library	$50,000	1	n/a
Martin Luther King Jr Community Health Foundation	$35,000	1	0%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation	$30,000	1	1%
Community Partners	$25,000	1	0%
City Of Victorville	$20,000	1	n/a
Angel Flight West Inc	$20,000	3	0%
The College for Behavorial Health Leadership	$15,000	1	7%
Uc Berkeley Chicano Latino Alumni Association	$10,000	1	5%
Paramedic Resources Inc	$10,000	2	4%
One Day at a Time	$10,000	1	n/a
Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists	$10,000	1	n/a
Ryse Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Shepherds Gate	$5,000	1	0%
Ruby's Place Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Sacramento Tree Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Access Reproductive Justice	$2,000	1	0%
Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)	$2,000	1	0%
California Immigrant Policy Center	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.

Carestar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

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.

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About Carestar Foundation

How much does Carestar Foundation give?: Carestar Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $5,274,463 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Carestar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Public Safety & Disaster (20%), Crime & Legal (6%).
Who are Carestar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Public Health Advocates ($2.8M), Nuestra Comunidad ($750k), Interface Children Family Services ($600k).
Does Carestar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carestar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carestar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, East Bay Community Foundation.
Where is Carestar Foundation based?: Carestar Foundation is based in CA.