· Public charity
Golden State Opportunity
Golden State Opportunity (gso) is a nonprofit dedicated to ending poverty by providing all californians with the tools to build financial well-being and thrive.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k29 grants · $700k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $775k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEXICAN AMERICAN OPPORTUNITY | $95,000 |
| FDN FOR CA COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $77,000 |
| JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEV INSTIT | $76,250 |
| The Community College Foundat | $75,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY NBHD PARTNERS | $72,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $70,000 |
| Haven Services Inc | $67,500 |
| Eastmont Community Center | $66,500 |
| El Centro De Ayuda | $66,250 |
| DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC | $58,750 |
| INLAND EQUITY COMM LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| Barrio Action Youth Center | $48,750 |
| Iglesia Nueva Vida Discipulos | $45,000 |
| Antelope Valley Partners | $43,750 |
| New Economics for Women | $41,250 |
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
- MAMexican American Opportunity Foundation6× · 2018–2024 · $783k · revenue +131%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +244%
- CCCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- WHWORKING HERO ACTIONone grant, 2019 · $156k · revenue -99%
- CFCENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $63k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Concilio California and the most unlike its peers is Central Valley Partnership. 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 29 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 74 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 Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE AYUDA ↗
- Who funds BARRIO ACTION YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST MINNESOTA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Eastmont Community Center ↗
- Who funds WORKING HERO ACTION ↗
- Who funds Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin ↗
- Who funds INLAND EQUITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Family Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Central Valley Partnership ↗
- Who funds EAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SIGMA BETA XI INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds HAVEN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PF Bresee Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO ↗
- Who funds EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAKARA MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Community Partners · Liberty Hill Foundation · United Way Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Public Health Institute · Baby2baby
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 Golden State Opportunity 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.