How much does Golden State Opportunity give?

Golden State Opportunity reported 40 grants totaling $1,475,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Golden State Opportunity fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Community Improvement (16%), Employment (13%).

Who are Golden State Opportunity's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ($783k), Foundation for California Community Colleges ($305k), Central City Neighborhood Partners ($290k).

Does Golden State Opportunity fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Golden State Opportunity?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

Where is Golden State Opportunity based?

Golden State Opportunity is based in CA.

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California · 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. Our work is along two complementary tracks getting people the help they need right now and building the infrastructure to change attitudes toward people living in poverty and the…

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 40
Grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 9%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $95,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 37; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Golden State Opportunity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	40	$1.5M	25%
FY2023	32	$1.2M	9%
FY2022	32	$1.2M	38%
FY2021	9	$166k	11%
FY2020	37	$1.0M	51%
FY2019	21	$816k	29%
FY2018	22	$462k	77%
FY2017	6	$88k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation	$783,000	6	0%
Foundation for California Community Colleges	$304,800	5	0%
Central City Neighborhood Partners	$289,500	7	2%
El Centro de Ayuda	$254,250	5	4%
Barrio Action Youth & Family Center	$248,750	7	3%
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County	$231,000	5	0%
AARP Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation	$173,000	3	1%
Antelope Valley Partners for Health	$164,750	5	0%
Eastmont Community Center	$157,500	3	3%

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All grantees of Golden State Opportunity by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation	$783,000	6	0%
Foundation for California Community Colleges	$304,800	5	0%
Central City Neighborhood Partners	$289,500	7	2%
El Centro de Ayuda	$254,250	5	4%
Barrio Action Youth & Family Center	$248,750	7	3%
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County	$231,000	5	0%
AARP Foundation	$220,000	3	0%
Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corporation	$173,000	3	1%
Antelope Valley Partners for Health	$164,750	5	0%
Eastmont Community Center	$157,500	3	3%
Working Hero Action	$155,961	1	11%
Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin	$147,500	5	2%
Inland Equity Community Land Trust	$141,000	4	39%
Family Assistance Program	$137,600	4	1%
Dreams for Change Inc	$136,750	3	2%
Watts Labor Community Action Committee	$132,000	4	0%
Time For Change Foundation	$131,700	5	1%
Starting Over Inc	$124,680	7	1%
New Economics for Women	$123,250	4	0%
Community College Foundation	$119,450	2	1%
Jefferson Economic Development Institute	$118,250	3	10%
Central Valley Partnership	$116,000	5	10%
East la Community Corporation	$115,000	3	1%
Coalition for Responsible Community Development	$87,000	2	0%
Seniors Council of Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties	$85,000	3	1%
Community Partners	$83,500	4	0%
Sigma Beta XI Inc	$83,000	5	1%
Black Women for Wellness	$69,200	3	1%
Haven Services	$67,500	1	5%
PF Bresee Foundation	$64,800	4	1%
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement	$63,200	5	3%
Center for Health and Democracy Education Fund	$63,135	1	n/a
Asian Youth Center	$62,000	4	0%
Clinica Msr Oscar a Romero	$58,000	3	0%
Eastmont Community Center	$55,500	3	n/a
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center	$53,000	3	0%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center	$52,300	4	0%
Jakara Movement	$50,800	3	0%
Youth Policy Institute Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$50,000	1	n/a
Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People	$48,000	3	1%
Iglesia Nueva Vida Discipulos de Cristo	$45,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$45,000	2	1%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project	$44,000	3	0%
El Concilio California	$43,800	3	0%
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc	$40,000	2	3%
Todec Legal Center Perris	$35,000	3	2%
Antelope Valley Partners for Health	$32,000	2	n/a
Young Invincibles	$30,000	1	1%
John Burton Advocates for Youth	$29,000	1	1%
iFoster Inc	$27,000	1	1%
Toberman Neighborhood Center Inc	$21,000	2	1%
Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas En Norte America	$20,000	1	2%
Community Lawyers Inc	$20,000	1	14%
Florence Firestone Merchants Association	$20,000	1	n/a
Lynwood Unified School Distric	$20,000	1	n/a
Proyecto Pastoral	$20,000	1	0%
St John's Community Health	$20,000	2	0%
Education and Leadership Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Altamed Health Services Corporation	$20,000	1	0%
Pacoima Beautiful	$18,000	1	n/a
Csusb Philanthropic Foundation	$16,000	2	0%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy	$16,000	2	0%
San Francisco CASA	$15,000	1	0%
United Way Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Institute for Human & Social Development	$15,000	1	0%
Bill Wilson Center	$15,000	1	0%
Valley Restart Shelter Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Project Joy	$12,000	1	5%
El Nido Family Centers	$11,000	1	0%
Community Health Systems Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Accelerate Change Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Monument Crisis Center	$10,000	1	0%
Tax-Aid	$10,000	1	2%

Golden State Opportunity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

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

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.

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About Golden State Opportunity

How much does Golden State Opportunity give?: Golden State Opportunity reported 40 grants totaling $1,475,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Golden State Opportunity fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Community Improvement (16%), Employment (13%).
Who are Golden State Opportunity's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mexican American Opportunity Foundation ($783k), Foundation for California Community Colleges ($305k), Central City Neighborhood Partners ($290k).
Does Golden State Opportunity fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Golden State Opportunity?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is Golden State Opportunity based?: Golden State Opportunity is based in CA.