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Catalyst California

CATALYST CALIFORNIA advocates for racial justice by building power and transforming public systems.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$424k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Benefit$3.4MCivil Rights$1.4MHuman Services$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$108kYouth Development$106kEnvironment$105kEducation$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $1,272,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,400,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $128,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $798k
  • $250k+1 grant · $424k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND$424,000
KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION$115,000
POWER CALIFORNIA$115,000
EAST BAY ALLIANCE FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONO$115,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$115,000
CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER$100,000
LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY$60,000
STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING & POLICY$60,000
FRESNO BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES$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
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%JUNTOS: $10k → 22%FIRST 5 ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA: $6k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $12k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $63k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $12k → 11%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $8k → 11%TODEC LEGAL CENTER: $17k → 11%CA CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL NETWORK: $30k → 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $15k → 12%CHILDREN NOW: $85k → 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $9k → 12%TIDES CENTER - DREAM DEFENDERS: $500k → 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $8k → 12%CHILDREN NOW: $23k → 10%COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $25k → 10%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING & POLICY: $60k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $133k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $10k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $227k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $34k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $15k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $7k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
PA
CA
AZ
TN
DC
LA
MS
FL

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 Catalyst California’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.

Catalyst Californialessmore 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 33 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
36

Total granted

$5.7M
$730k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+41%

Still filing today

97%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
  • CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $675k · revenue +88%
  • IS
    INNERCITY STRUGGLE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $427k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FR
    FM3 RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $164k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +92%
  • BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +137%

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.

1
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
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
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

5
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
6
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
7
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

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
8
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

9
Water Education for Latino Leaders

Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.

Human Services
10
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
11
Latino Business Chamber of Greater La Foundation Inc

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services
12
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network and the most unlike its peers is Regional Educational and Environmental Program. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research & Civic Inn…Policy Advocacy and Researc…University Support Organiza…Youth Mentoring and Develop…Environmental Advocacy & Po…Developmental Disabilities …Family Support ServicesRegional Chambers of Commer…Family Philanthropic Founda…
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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr17%44%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr17%46%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 25% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
15%
17,060/113,403

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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 83 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/75
Grantees still filing
53/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $2,049,151 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUNDCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $182,750 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fun…MI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $116,401 · Civil Rights+14 more — $278,279 · Civil Rights+14 moreTIDES CENTER — $562,525 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $426,986 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLECHILDREN NOW — $108,236 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOWStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 · Human Services+8 more — $162,386 · Human Services+8 moreCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $280,347 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY COALI…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $235,626 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTN…FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $156,403 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION…POWER CALIFORNIA — $115,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNI…LA VOICE — $90,500 · Community ImprovementLA VOICECANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $63,832 · Community ImprovementCANGRESS DBA LO…Fresno Building Healthy Communities — $60,000 · Community ImprovementFresno Building…+1 more — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER — $675,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…+4 more — $63,000 · Education+4 moreFM3 RESEARCH — $164,000 · OtherFM3 RESEARCHNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $116,401 · OtherNALEO EDUCATIONAL F…TIDES ADVOCACY — $115,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $58,400 · OtherCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COMMUNIT…KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $135,900 · OtherKHMER GIRLS IN ACTI…COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA — $104,615 · OtherCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN…LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $60,000 · OtherPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL — $46,428 · Other+22 more — $439,907 · Other+22 moreASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $212,052 · Crime & LegalLEGACY LA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,900 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC — $20,750 · Crime & LegalAsian Law Caucus — $20,750 · Crime & LegalEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $127,018 · Public BenefitEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $115,000 · Public BenefitPoder in Action — $10,000 · Public BenefitOne Voice — $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $7,150 · Public Benefit
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $2,049,151 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER — $675,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $562,525 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE — $426,986 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT — $280,347 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $235,626 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $212,052 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $182,750 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $156,403 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $135,900 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE — $127,018 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $116,401 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND — $116,401 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA — $115,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $115,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy — $115,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $108,236 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA — $104,615 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA VOICE — $90,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $65,936 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK — $63,832 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFresno Building Healthy Communities — $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education — $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $58,400 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL — $46,428 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $42,875 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE — $35,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $33,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER — $33,400 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS — $32,536 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA — $32,536 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $32,536 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS — $32,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $25,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $25,307 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDUCATION FUND — $21,375 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLEGACY LA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $20,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY CENTER — $20,750 over 2y, 0.3% 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 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

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 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
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 83 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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