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Credit Union of Southern California

A cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift andsavings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social conditions.

$620k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$149k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.2MEducation$568kHealth$394kCommunity Improvement$153kInternational$152kReligion$147kFood & Nutrition$135kYouth Development$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $427,434 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $619,952 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $192,518 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 · $26k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $149k
$13,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS$149,304
WHITTIER AREA COMMUNITY CHURCH$28,000
SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF WHITTIER$25,900
WHITTIER HOST LIONS CLUB$25,700
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$20,200
CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE$16,000
INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER$15,000
WHITTIER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$14,500
SHELTER'S RIGHT HAND$14,330
TARA'S CHANCE$14,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER$13,500
RIO HONDO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$12,300
NORTH ORANGE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$11,500
FOSTER LOVE (FKA TOGETHER WE RISE)$11,000
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$10,200
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, $861k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7k → 10%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $36k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON: $6k → 10%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $20k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $12k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $11k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $10k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $358k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $149k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $69k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $63k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $50k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS: $48k → 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.

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 7% of Credit Union of Southern 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. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Credit Union of Southern Californialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 26 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
23

Total granted

$2.7M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+54%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +31%
  • WL
    WHITTIER LIONS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $193k · revenue +8% · 82% of their budget
  • IF
    INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +695%

Funded once

  • WA
    WHITTIER AREA COMMUNITY CHURCHFOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • PH
    PIH Health Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • TF
    TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -68%

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
Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce

To promote a business friendly environment and to enhance the quality of life and the economy of rancho cucamonga

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2
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
3
California Coast Credit Union

California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…

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4
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

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5
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
6
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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8
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
9
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

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10
California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce

To promote hispanic business, create an atmosphere that encourages the growth of the hispanic business community and to act as an advocate for the hispanic business community.

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11
Pomona Community Health Center

Pomona community health center's mission is to be the medical home for the underserved in our community by providing high quality preventive and primary care health services.

Health
12
California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce Foundation

To create, develop and provide education and economic development programs to increase adult leadership for the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce (CHCC) and for members of the CHCC and to provide scholarship opportunities for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Whittier Lions Foundation. 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 backsteadyRegional Chambers of Commer…Homeless Services & HousingDevelopmental Disabilities …Youth Sports ProgramsCharter and Alternative Sch…University Support Foundati…Family & Youth Support Serv…Community Health Centers
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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/56
the rest of the field
15%
9,955/65,058

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

50 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. 50 of the 56 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS — $950,006 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDSWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER — $109,800 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER+4 more — $53,830 · Human ServicesWHITTIER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $227,000 · OtherWHITTIER UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUC…CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $203,600 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKWHITTIER AREA COMMUNITY CHURCH — $125,500 · OtherWHITTIER AREA COMMUNITY CHURCHBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC — $75,850 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INCSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE AMERICAS INC — $50,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION ALLIANCE — $46,300 · OtherCAPC INC — $52,050 · Other+23 more — $304,600 · Other+23 moreWHITTIER LIONS FOUNDATION — $193,400 · EducationWHITTIER LIONS FO…INTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $120,000 · EducationINTERFAITH FOOD C…Rio Hondo College Foundation — $76,800 · EducationRio Hondo College…RICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $30,700 · EducationRICHARD MYLES JOH…+3 more — $30,000 · Education+3 moreSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF WHITTIER INC — $82,400 · Crime & LegalBridge of Faith — $19,000 · Crime & LegalHelpline Youth Counseling Inc — $7,500 · Crime & LegalSAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION AND SERVICE CORPS — $6,000 · Crime & LegalTARAS CHANCE — $77,500 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION — $15,515 · HealthST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE — $10,000 · HealthWHITTIER HEARING ANGEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthTOGETHER WE RISE — $72,000 · Recreation & SportsWHITTIER COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $21,150 · PhilanthropyPIH Health Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$1,113,636Other$1,084,900Education$450,900Crime & Legal$114,900Health$108,015Recreation & Sports$72,000Philanthropy$56,150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HELPING HANDS — $950,006 over 8y, 82% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $203,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWHITTIER LIONS FOUNDATION — $193,400 over 7y, 82% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD CENTER — $120,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER — $109,800 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF WHITTIER INC — $82,400 over 5y, 36% of budgetTARAS CHANCE — $77,500 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetRio Hondo College Foundation — $76,800 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WHITTIER INC — $75,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $72,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCAPC INC — $52,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION ALLIANCE — $46,300 over 3y, 15% of budgetMURPHY RANCH LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $34,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetWhittier Area Chamber of Commerce — $32,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRICHARD MYLES JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $30,700 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWHITTIER COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $21,150 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWHITTIER POA FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetPOMONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,500 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPIH Health Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShelters Right Hand — $19,830 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBridge of Faith — $19,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetPOMONA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION — $17,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CREDIT UNION LEAGUE — $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION — $15,515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULLERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $11,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $10,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL MONTESOUTH EL MONTE MEALS ON WH — $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SIERRA CENTRAL CREDIT UNION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN GABRIELPOMONA VALLEYS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelpline Youth Counseling Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA USA INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION AND SERVICE CORPS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN POMONA OWNERS ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCA DISTRICT 56 OF L L BASEBALL — $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHIS HOUSE INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITTIER HEARING ANGEL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Sacchi FoundationPIH Health Whittier H…Orange County Communi…California Community …The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…Whittier Lions Founda…BCM FoundationBanc of California Ch…Weingart FoundationUnion Pacific Foundat…Sempra Foundation
The Sacchi FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sacchi Foundation · PIH Health Whittier Hospital · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Whittier Lions Foundation · BCM Foundation · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Sempra 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 Credit Union of Southern 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 75%
  • His House Inc — 75% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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

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 56 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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