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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%WATTS LABOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 14%COUNCIL OF MEXICAN FOUNDATION (COFEM): $20k → 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+63%
+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
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

  • 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
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
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
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
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
Community Legal Aid Socal

Community legal aid socal provides compassionate, holistic, and impactful legal services to residents of los angeles and orange counties who need help with housing, family law, healthcare access and other areas of law.

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
9
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
10
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
11
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 &…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
53/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCONSEJO DE FEDERACIONES MEXICANAS EN NORTE AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…The James Irvine Foun…Community PartnersLiberty Hill Foundati…United Way IncThe California Wellne…The Annenberg Foundat…Public Health Institu…Baby2baby
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Golden State Opportunity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden State Opportunity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, 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 74 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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