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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY$250,000
NATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER$250,000
NUESTRA COMUNIDAD$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
HEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA)$150,000
HEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA)$150,000
KINGS VIEW$150,000
SAN RAMON VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Carestar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Carestar Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+72%

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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
05the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherHEALTH RESOURCE IN ACTION (HRIA): $300,000 · OtherYOUTH ALIVE: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $2,770,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNUESTRA COMUNIDAD: $750,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInterface Children Family Services: $600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSUTTER ROSEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 12% 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 budgetJOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPrevention Institute: $300,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPublic Works Alliance: $250,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC: $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWELLSPACE HEALTH: $225,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY: $75,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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 budgetUC BERKELEY CHICANO LATINO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPARAMEDIC RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRYSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherds Gate: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUBY'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carestar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carestar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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