How much did CATALYST CALIFORNIA grant in FY2024?

Civil Rights$2.6MHuman Services$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEducation$738kCrime & Legal$274kPublic Benefit$269kPhilanthropy$235kYouth Development$205kArts & Culture$105kOther$797k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

partnership partpart requirements

2019

partnership partpart requirements

2020

census policypolicy advocacyparticipation wecountlawecountla healthyhealthy boyleboyle heightsrace counts

2021

restor rightright votevote impactedbold vision

2022

engagement ca'sca's raterate reformbudget millionmillion voters

2023

structural reformbudget millionmillion voters

2024

whole childchild equityequity partnershippartnership awarenessvision youthyouth thrivingthriving survey

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $29k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$50k–250k9 grants · $798k
$250k+1 grant · $424k

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND$424,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$115,000
POWER CALIFORNIA$115,000
KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION$115,000
EAST BAY ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONO$115,000
CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER$100,000
STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING & POLICY$60,000
FRESNO BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES$60,000
LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY$60,000
COMMUNITY COALITION$57,500
THE TRANSLATIN COALITION$12,000
PLAZA COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
INLAND EMPIRE MIDWIFERY AND LACTATION$8,000
CHANGING WORLDS LLC$7,500
INNERCITY STRUGGLE$7,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 34 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$848k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%

+109%

Still filing today

97%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

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CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND
6× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +43%
CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER
3× · 2022–2024 · $675k · revenue +113%
TIDES CENTER - DREAM DEFENDERS
2× · 2020–2022 · $563k · revenue +74%

Funded once

FR
FM3 RESEARCH
one grant, 2022 · $164k
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -3%
TC
THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIPgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +102%

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.

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

Legal Aid Association of California

LAAC is the statewide membership of civil legal nonprofits. We serve our community and their clients by advocating for more legal aid funding, by training legal aid staff, and by coordinating and connecting advocates throughout the state.

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California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

California Forward

California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.

Public Benefit

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

County Supervisors Association of Calif

To represent county government before the california legislature, administrative agencies and support county government.

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California Changelawyers

California changelawyers is a statewide foundation whose mission is to build a better justice system for all californians. changelawyers empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists to create a more diverse legal…

Social Science

California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture

Central Coast Alliance United for a

To build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Aapi Equity Alliance

Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…

Human Services

California Assoc for Bilingual Education

Promote and Support Educational Excellence and Equity.

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Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

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

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/83

the rest of the field

13%

15,236/116,508

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

75 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

74/75

Grantees still filing

64/75

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$2,626,581Human Services$1,370,133Community Improvement$1,021,708Education$738,000Other$1,340,651Crime & Legal$274,452Public Benefit$269,168

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.

The California EndowmentCA68.8× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Community Partners · Tides Foundation · California Calls Education Fund · Sierra Health 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 CATALYST CALIFORNIA 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~42 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462301623 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 CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 42 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Catalyst California?

Find your warmest path to Catalyst California 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.

CATALYST CALIFORNIA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?