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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$95k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Human Services$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEmployment$815kEducation$544kYouth Development$524kHousing & Shelter$454kCivil Rights$406kHealth$384kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $700k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $775k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 11%Bill Wilson Center: $15k → 8%Monument Crisis Center: $10k → 9%DREAMS FOR CHANGE INC: $38k → 11%EL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA: $18k → 12%Seniors Council of Santa Cruz: $30k → 13%Community Action Partnership: $71k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELP: $20k → 14%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $18k → 19%El Concilio California: $15k → 12%PROJECT SCOUT: $30k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $70k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELP: $16k → 14%Jakara Movement: $18k → 19%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CTR: $18k → 10%El Concilio California: $11k → 12%PROJECT SCOUT: $25k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $70k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELP: $12k → 14%Jakara Movement: $15k → 19%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CTR: $18k → 10%EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATION: $18k → 14%Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County: $11k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CTR: $11k → 10%Community Action Partnership: $9k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $43k → 14%EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATION: $18k → 14%EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATION: $17k → 14%COUNCIL OF MEXICAN FOUNDATION (COFEM): $20k → 14%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 14%TODEC Legal Center: $13k → 11%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $26k → 14%Watts Labor Community Action Committee: $23k → 14%ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $18k → 14%Asian Youth Center: $16k → 14%Asian Youth Center: $15k → 14%Asian Youth Center: $13k → 14%Toberman Neighborhood Center Inc: $15k → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $67k → 14%Eastmont Community Center: $54k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $37k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $20k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NBHD PARTNERS: $73k → 14%Central City NBHD Partners: $72k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NBHD PARTNERS: $70k → 14%Central City Neighborhood Partners: $38k → 14%Central City Neighborhood Partners: $15k → 14%CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOODD PARTNERS: $14k → 14%Haven Services Inc: $68k → 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 47 repeat orgs$764k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
17

Total granted

$5.6M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+86%

Still filing today

94%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • MA
    Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $783k · revenue +131%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +244%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • WH
    WORKING HERO ACTION
    one grant, 2019 · $156k · revenue -99%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $63k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

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
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
2
Community Development Technologies Center

To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…

Community Improvement
3
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement
6
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…

9
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
10
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
11
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
12
Water Education for Latino Leaders

Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.

Human Services

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Mentoring ProgramsHigher Education Support Or…Child & Family Protective S…Senior Affordable HousingPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based International O…Food Assistance & Hunger Re…Immigrant Rights and Justic…Community Health Centers & …Early Childhood Care 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr16%7%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/74
the rest of the field
15%
12,999/83,932

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
54/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS — $289,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNE…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $231,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF …AARP FOUNDATION — $220,000 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATIONEastmont Community Center — $157,500 · Human ServicesEastmont Community CenterDREAMS FOR CHANGE INC — $136,750 · Human ServicesDREAMS FOR CHANGE INCWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE — $132,000 · Human ServicesWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COM…SENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES — $85,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN SERVICES — $67,500 · Human ServicesASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $62,000 · Human Services+13 more — $439,900 · Human Services+13 moreMexican American Opportunity Foundation — $783,000 · EmploymentMexican Ameri…MIDWEST MINNESOTA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $173,000 · Community ImprovementMIDWEST MINN…ANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH — $164,750 · Community ImprovementANTELOPE VAL…Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin — $147,500 · Community ImprovementCommunity Pa…JEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $118,250 · Community ImprovementJEFFERSON EC…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $83,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PA…+1 more — $16,000 · Community ImprovementFamily Assistance Program — $137,600 · OtherFamily Assistance ProgramTime For Change Foundation — $131,700 · OtherTime For Change FoundationPF Bresee Foundation — $64,800 · OtherCENTER FOR HEALTH AND DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND — $63,135 · OtherEASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER — $55,500 · OtherWORKING HERO ACTION — $155,961 · OtherWORKING HERO ACTIONCentral Valley Partnership — $116,000 · OtherCentral Valley PartnershipBARRIO ACTION YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $248,750 · OtherBARRIO ACTION YOUTH & FAMILY…COALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $87,000 · OtherSIGMA BETA XI INC — $83,000 · OtherCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT — $63,200 · Other+19 more — $433,000 · Other+19 moreINLAND EQUITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $141,000 · Housing & ShelterINLAND EQ…STARTING OVER INC — $124,680 · Housing & ShelterSTARTING …NEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN — $123,250 · Housing & ShelterNEW ECONO…EAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $115,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST LA C…+1 more — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $304,800 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $119,450 · EducationHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC — $40,000 · EducationEducation and Leadership Foundation — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationEL CENTRO DE AYUDA — $254,250 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $69,200 · HealthCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO — $58,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $45,000 · HealthALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $20,000 · Health
Human Services$1,821,150Employment$783,000Community Improvement$703,000Other$1,639,646Housing & Shelter$518,930Education$499,250Health$446,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMexican American Opportunity Foundation — $783,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES — $304,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL CITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS — $289,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEL CENTRO DE AYUDA — $254,250 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetBARRIO ACTION YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER — $248,750 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY — $231,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST MINNESOTA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $173,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetANTELOPE VALLEY PARTNERS FOR HEALTH — $164,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEastmont Community Center — $157,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWORKING HERO ACTION — $155,961 over 1y, 11% of budgetCommunity Partnership for Families of San Joaquin — $147,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetINLAND EQUITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $141,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetFamily Assistance Program — $137,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDREAMS FOR CHANGE INC — $136,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE — $132,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTime For Change Foundation — $131,700 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTARTING OVER INC — $124,680 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNEW ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN — $123,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $119,450 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJEFFERSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $118,250 over 3y, 10% of budgetCentral Valley Partnership — $116,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $115,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $87,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIORS COUNCIL OF SANTA CRUZ AND SAN BENITO COUNTIES — $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $83,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIGMA BETA XI INC — $83,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $69,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAVEN SERVICES — $67,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPF Bresee Foundation — $64,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCONGREGATIONS ORGANIZED FOR PROPHETIC ENGAGEMENT — $63,200 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $62,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLINICA MSR OSCAR A ROMERO — $58,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER — $53,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $52,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT — $50,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $48,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT — $44,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEL CONCILIO CALIFORNIA — $43,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTodec Legal Center Perris — $35,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $29,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetiFoster Inc — $27,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTOBERMAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Lawyers Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

Weingart FoundationCA56.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 74 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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