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Ccf Community Initiatives Fund

Supporting organization of california community foundation.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$22MEnvironment$9.6MPhilanthropy$7.0MArts & Culture$4.5MHousing & Shelter$4.3MPublic Benefit$3.0MHuman Services$2.5MHealth$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 93 grants below total $10,225,129, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,755,501 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $530,372 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+12 grants · $7.5M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,233,114
BUTTERFLY'S HAVEN$1,200,000
CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK$1,026,400
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$1,025,000
DIVERSITY UPLIFTS INC$925,000
5365 CRENSHAW OWNER LLC$350,000
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$325,000
LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES FOUNDATION$309,707
UCLA FOUNDATION$300,000
CATALYST CALIFORNIA$294,753
EMPOWERTHEM COLLECTIVE$264,675
LA-MAS INC$250,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC$178,500
CHARLES DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$136,000
REALIZE IMPACT$125,500
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 (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT MOTHERPATH: $32k → 15%REALIZE IMPACT: $126k → 10%CHILD TRENDS: $50k → 8%REALIZE IMPACT: $51k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $100k → 10%ZERO TO THREE: $100k → 14%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $370k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $75k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $100k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $75k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $50k → 10%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 14%BREASTFEEDING TASK FORCE OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $60k → 14%MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $35k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES REGIONAL CENTER: $20k → 14%BREASTFEEDING TASK FORCE OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $27k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $50k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $75k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $40k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%BUTTERFLY'S HAVEN: $1.2M → 14%MEN TAKING OVER REFORMING SOCIETY INC: $22k → 14%OHANA CENTER AV: $84k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $29k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $24k → 14%SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER: $35k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $75k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $25k → 14%ASIAN PACIFIC POLICY AND PLANNING COUNCIL: $34k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $25k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS: $25k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $34k → 14%SERVICES CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $40k → 14%PATHWAYS LA: $25k → 14%A SENSE OF HOME: $53k → 14%CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%MEN TAKING OVER REFORMING SOCIETY INC: $40k → 14%PATHWAYS LA: $45k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $23k → 14%THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $76k → 14%STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE: $50k → 14%THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 14%THE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $32k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 104 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
216

Total granted

$39M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+23%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth 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

  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3.4M · revenue ×41
  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +418%
  • DC
    DESTINATION CRENSHAW
    4× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue ×86 · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF MERCED
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue +14% · 42% of their budget
  • HC
    HARNESS COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2022 · $952k · revenue -35%
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.

1
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
3
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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5
Instituto De Educacion Popular Del Sur De California

strengthening the leadership and workforce skills of Day Laborers and Domestic Workers. through 5 Day Labor Centers, Workers Health Program & Mujeres en Accion using Education & outreach empowerment tools

Unclassified
6
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
7
Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment
8
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
9
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
10
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
11
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Project Motherpath Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

262 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. 262 of the 367 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
66
Early backer (in before they grew)
251/262
Grantees still filing
179/262
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10,829,927 · OtherLOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION: $6,346,803 · OtherLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATIONCITY OF MERCED: $1,330,000 · Other+83 more: $10,914,198 · Other+83 moreCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,178,508 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY F…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $2,886,025 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHRO…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1,746,066 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GR…ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $819,619 · PhilanthropyST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HE…The Cheesecake Factory-Oscar and Evelyn Overton Charitable Foundation: $500,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $500,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $1,296,680 · Philanthropy+6 moreGREATER LOS ANGELES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,400,710 · EducationGREATER LO…UCLA FOUNDATION: $374,375 · EducationUCLA FOUND…AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION: $330,500 · EducationAFRICAN AM…Eco Hero Kids Foundation: $243,900 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $195,000 · Education+15 more: $1,207,490 · Education+15 morePARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $1,305,367 · Human ServicesPARTNERS F…BUTTERFLYS HAVEN FORMERLY KNOWN AS TREEHOUSE IMPACT GROUP: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesBUTTERFLYS…FII - NATIONAL: $370,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATI…Child Care Law Center: $250,000 · Human Services+31 more: $2,235,950 · Human Services+31 moreDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $1,331,127 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $435,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $220,210 · Arts & CultureCASA 0101 INC: $207,500 · Arts & CultureCRYSTAL STAIRS INC: $186,700 · Arts & Culture+27 more: $1,372,185 · Arts & CultureDIVERSITY UPLIFTS INC: $1,135,000 · HealthCalifornia Black Womens Health Project: $312,850 · HealthALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $182,000 · HealthOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $130,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $95,000 · HealthMIGHTY LITTLE GIANTS INC: $93,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthEAST LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S CENTER: $80,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $30,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK: $1,060,000 · Civil RightsHARNESS COMMUNITY: $951,715 · Civil Rights+3 more: $140,000 · Civil Rights
Other$29,420,928Philanthropy$11,926,898Education$5,751,975Human Services$5,361,317Arts & Culture$3,752,722Health$2,217,850Civil Rights$2,151,715

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEONARDO DICAPRIO FOUNDATION: $6,346,803 over 2y, 13% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,178,508 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $2,886,025 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $1,746,066 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $1,331,127 over 4y, 100% of budgetPARTNERS FOR CHILDREN SOUTH LA: $1,305,367 over 1y, 42% of budgetDIVERSITY UPLIFTS INC: $1,135,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK: $1,060,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetHARNESS COMMUNITY: $951,715 over 1y, 20% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $819,619 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $723,811 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS: $621,404 over 1y, 54% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $518,755 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $502,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cheesecake Factory-Oscar and Evelyn Overton Charitable Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT JOY: $463,877 over 5y, 70% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $435,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA: $394,753 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL: $391,735 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute: $381,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $374,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $370,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION: $330,500 over 3y, 62% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $320,068 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCalifornia Black Womens Health Project: $312,850 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetMERCED RESCUE MISSION: $290,910 over 3y, 10% of budgetEMPOWERTHEM COLLECTIVE: $264,675 over 1y, 53% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $256,116 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA-MAS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetChild Care Law Center: $250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $245,362 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEco Hero Kids Foundation: $243,900 over 4y, 99% of budgetYWCA of San Gabriel Valley: $234,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $220,210 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITE-LA INC: $210,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCASA 0101 INC: $207,500 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $195,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetCRYSTAL STAIRS INC: $186,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $182,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRealize Impact: $176,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSIERRA SAVING GRACE HOMELESS PROJECT: $160,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $151,850 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States: $150,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE THERAPEUTIC PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $143,300 over 3y, 6.0% 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.

Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…United Way IncThe Ahmanson Foundati…The California Endowm…Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Wellne…Community PartnersThe Rose Hills Founda…Baby2baby
Weingart FoundationCA106.4× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · The California Endowment · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Community Partners · The Rose Hills Foundation · Baby2baby

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 Ccf Community Initiatives Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ccf Community Initiatives Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 50%
  • Child Trends Inc: 50% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Ccf Community Initiatives Fund?

Find your warmest path to Ccf Community Initiatives Fund 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 367 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 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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