· Public charity
Catalyst California
CATALYST CALIFORNIA advocates for racial justice by building power and transforming public systems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $569k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND6× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $675k · revenue +88%- ISINNERCITY STRUGGLE6× · 2018–2024 · $427k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FRFM3 RESEARCHone grant, 2022 · $164k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +92%
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESSgraduatedone 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.
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.
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY STRUGGLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Californians For Justice Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
- Who funds NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA VOICE ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds Fresno Building Healthy Communities ↗
- Who funds Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education ↗
- Who funds EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds California Child Care Resource and Referral Network ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ↗
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.
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.
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.