How much does Catalyst California give?

Catalyst California reported 6 itemized grants totaling $602,436, out of $669,587 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Catalyst California fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (44%), Civil Rights (19%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Catalyst California's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Calls Education Fund ($2.4M), California Budget & Policy Center ($725k), Innercity Struggle ($427k).

Does Catalyst California fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Catalyst California?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The James Irvine Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.

Where is Catalyst California based?

Catalyst California is based in CA.

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Catalyst California

CATALYST CALIFORNIA advocates for racial justice by building power and transforming public systems. We partner with communities of color, conduct innovative research, develop policies for actionable change, and shift money and power back into our communities.

$670k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 69%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $602k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $377,736
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 34; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Catalyst California funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

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 BenefitEducationCrime & LegalOther

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
FY2025still arriving	6	$602k	33%
FY2024	16	$1.3M	69%
FY2023	5	$2.0M	0%
FY2022	11	$524k	55%
FY2021	16	$685k	38%
FY2020	34	$677k	50%
FY2019	34	$655k	44%
FY2018	20	$1.1M	90%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.4MCivil Rights$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$108kYouth Development$106kEnvironment$105kEducation$68kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Calls Education Fund	$2,426,887	7	8%
California Budget & Policy Center	$725,000	4	8%
Innercity Struggle	$426,986	6	4%
Californians For Justice Education Fund	$335,750	4	2%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment	$280,347	5	1%
Community Partners	$235,626	5	0%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California	$212,052	2	1%
Fm3 Research	$164,000	1	n/a
Faith in Action Network	$156,403	3	1%
Khmer Girls in Action	$135,900	2	3%

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All grantees of Catalyst California by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
California Calls Education Fund	$2,426,887	7	8%
California Budget & Policy Center	$725,000	4	8%
Innercity Struggle	$426,986	6	4%
Californians For Justice Education Fund	$335,750	4	2%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment	$280,347	5	1%
Community Partners	$235,626	5	0%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California	$212,052	2	1%
Fm3 Research	$164,000	1	n/a
Faith in Action Network	$156,403	3	1%
Khmer Girls in Action	$135,900	2	3%
Equality California Institute	$127,018	3	5%
Tides Advocacy	$122,700	2	0%
Mi Familia En Accion	$116,401	2	2%
Naleo Educational Fund	$116,401	3	1%
Power California	$115,000	1	2%
East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy	$115,000	1	4%
Children Now	$108,236	2	1%
Council on American-Islamic Relations California	$104,615	2	2%
La Voice	$90,500	3	3%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights	$65,936	4	0%
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network	$63,832	4	1%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$60,000	1	1%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education	$60,000	1	2%
Fresno Building Healthy Communities	$60,000	1	1%
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice	$58,400	3	1%
The Children's Partnership	$50,000	1	2%
Pacoima Beautiful	$46,428	4	1%
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation	$42,875	3	4%
Black Women for Wellness	$40,000	1	2%
Social Justice Learning Institute	$35,800	2	1%
Advancing Communities Together	$33,400	2	3%
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc	$33,400	2	0%
California Association of Nonprofits	$32,536	2	2%
Disability Rights California	$32,536	2	0%
Housing California Inc	$32,536	3	1%
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans	$32,250	3	1%
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network	$30,000	1	0%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$25,750	2	1%
ACLU Foundation of Southern California	$25,307	1	0%
Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth	$25,000	1	1%
Chrissie M Castro & Associate	$25,000	1	n/a
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy	$22,000	2	n/a
Casa of Los Angeles	$22,000	2	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$22,000	2	0%
Children's Defense Fund	$22,000	2	0%
Southern California Education Fund	$21,375	1	4%
Legacy la Youth Development Corp	$20,900	1	1%
Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund	$20,750	1	0%
Asian Law Caucus	$20,750	1	0%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc	$20,750	1	0%
California Immigrant Policy Center	$20,750	2	0%
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council	$20,000	1	0%
The Black Swan Academy Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Philadelphia Student Union	$20,000	1	n/a
Regional Educational and Environmental Program	$18,000	1	n/a
Starting Over Inc	$17,100	1	n/a
Todec Legal Center Perris	$16,500	1	2%
The Translatin Coalition	$12,000	1	0%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Juntos	$10,000	1	1%
Puente Human Rights Movement	$10,000	1	1%
Plaza Community Center Inc Dba Plaza Community Services	$10,000	1	0%
Mississippi Votes	$10,000	1	1%
The Equity Alliance	$10,000	1	1%
State Voices	$10,000	1	0%
Workers Center For Racial Just NFP	$10,000	1	1%
One Voice	$10,000	1	0%
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools	$10,000	1	1%
Poder in Action	$10,000	1	0%
Castillo Consulting Partners LLC	$9,750	1	n/a
Inland Empire Midwifery and Lactation	$8,000	1	n/a
Trinity Christian Church of Merced	$7,750	1	n/a
Changing Worlds LLC	$7,500	1	n/a
Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc	$7,450	1	0%
Inland Empire Community Collaborative Inc	$7,150	1	1%
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development	$7,000	1	n/a
OC Action	$7,000	1	n/a
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition	$7,000	1	n/a
First 5 Association of California Inc	$6,100	1	0%
Coalition for Responsible Community Development	$5,221	1	0%
Csulb	$5,000	1	n/a
Urban School of San Francisco	$5,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Catalyst California supplied at peak.

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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 68.

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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 EndowmentCA61.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Community Partners · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Common Counsel 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 Catalyst California

How much does Catalyst California give?: Catalyst California reported 6 itemized grants totaling $602,436, out of $669,587 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Catalyst California fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (44%), Civil Rights (19%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Catalyst California's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Calls Education Fund ($2.4M), California Budget & Policy Center ($725k), Innercity Struggle ($427k).
Does Catalyst California fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Catalyst California?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The California Endowment, The James Irvine Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.
Where is Catalyst California based?: Catalyst California is based in CA.