· Private foundation
Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $755k
- $250k+1 grant · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATRIOT FARMS CA | $5,899,184 |
| HEROES WAREHOUSE | $125,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $100,000 |
| ST ANTHONY BRIDGES TO HOME | $75,000 |
| GABLE FARMS | $55,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $50,000 |
| POMONA HOPE | $25,000 |
| GRID ALTERNATIVES | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION3× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +292%
- KCKIDS CURES FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +1%
- CSCATALYST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY INCORPORATED2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- AWABLE WORKS GRANTone grant, 2024 · $250k
- IFIQAIR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue -4%
- GAGRID ALTERNATIVES INLAND EMPIREone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.
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.
The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work
Working with church leaders, community groups, businesses & organized labor in developing relational organization and community development skills & methods. programs and methods include workforce development and training.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic and social…
Strengthening communities through building and maintaining urban farms and gardens in Southern California.
Urban Tilth is a California nonprofit organization committed to educate diverse communities about organic gardening and to support a network of gardens dedicated to sustainable, local food production. Urban Tilth insipires, hires, and…
To reclaim, restore, and revitalize the creeks and rivers in the Santa Clara Valley watershed.
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
South bay substainable communities network is to build healthy and sustainable communities by encouraging people to create lasting change in their daily lives through education and community engagement in environmental conservation,…
The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…
Combatting urban blight and restoring neighborhoods by acquiring and rehabilitating unused/underutilized properties and creating neighborhood community centers and providing a variety of educational, recreational, and vocational services…
Recruiting and training volunteers that implement changes in the cities of Monterey County that include the establishment and operation of Community Gardens; the planting of tees on urban street; teaching citizens how to reduce the amount…
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Civicwell ↗
- Who funds IQAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
- Who funds KIDS CURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY BRIDGES TO HOME ↗
- Who funds SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CONSERVATION AND SERVICE CORPS ↗
- Who funds GABLE FARMS ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDERS BOXING CLUB PROGRAM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Inland Empire Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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