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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $427,434, the rows itemized in this filing. The $619,952 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $192,518 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 $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

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, $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 its 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
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Credit Union of Southern California’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 84%.

Credit Union of Southern Californialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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 -7%
  • TF
    TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -68%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 56 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetPIH Health Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 budgetSANTA ANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEL MONTESOUTH EL MONTE MEALS ON WH: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL OF ORANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREDIT UNIONS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SIERRA CENTRAL CREDIT UNION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN GABRIELPOMONA VALLEYS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDOWNTOWN POMONA OWNERS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION AND SERVICE CORPS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF FULLERTON: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFONTANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Credit Union of Southern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Credit Union of Southern California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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.

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 56 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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