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James B McClatchy Foundation

We stand with the people of the Central Valley by investing in education and active civic participation in our democracy.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$13MPhilanthropy$5.4MCivil Rights$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$1.0MCommunity Improvement$702kPublic Benefit$428kHealth$331kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,070,081
Median grant
1
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
See the attached grant list$10,070,081
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Latino Community Foundation: $105k → 10%Local Media Foundation: $50k → 13%Training Institute for Leader: $20k → 10%Freedom of the Press Foundati: $100k → 10%Freedom of the Press Foundati: $10k → 10%Fresno Center for New America: $10k → 19%Mercy Pedalers: $10k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of James B McClatchy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 85%.

James B McClatchy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 52 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
52

Total granted

$21M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

71%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CV
    Central Valley Journalism Collaborative
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +515% · 59% of their budget
  • EF
    EDUCATION FIRST
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +6%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    3× · 2022–2024 · $505k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -39%
  • REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $185k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -82%
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.

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California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
2
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
3
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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4
Californians for the Arts

Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…

Arts & Culture
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
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
7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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8
Central Valley Business Federation

To strengthen the voice of business in Californias Central Valley through information sharing expertise networking connections and research to impact economic policies programs and projects.

Community Improvement
9
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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10
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…

Community Improvement
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California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Education Partners; the most unlike its peers is Mercy Pedalers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
52/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

See the attached grant list: $10,070,081 · OtherSee the attached grant listCutler-Orosi Joint Unified: $1,845,881 · OtherCutler-Orosi Joint UnifiedGalt Joint Union Elem School: $1,624,484 · OtherGalt Joint Union Elem SchoolRobla School District: $1,424,698 · OtherRobla School DistrictFirebaugh-Las Deltas Unified: $1,084,897 · OtherWashington Unified School: $852,695 · Other+52 more: $6,832,472 · Other+52 moreCentral Valley Journalism Collaborative: $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley J…Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $1,894,800 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley C…Sacramento Region Community Foundation: $541,000 · PhilanthropySacramento Regio…Stanislaus Community Foundation: $235,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $352,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreEDUCATION FIRST: $1,000,000 · EducationEDUCATION …EDSOURCE INC: $411,000 · EducationEDSOURCE I…THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS: $400,000 · EducationTHE CALIFO…BLACK YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $360,000 · EducationBLACK YOUT…SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM: $300,000 · EducationSOBRATO EA…CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $261,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $135,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Education+4 more: $142,500 · EducationFresno Arts Council Inc: $470,000 · Arts & CultureFRESNO ART MUSEUM: $362,000 · Arts & CultureFresnoland Media: $360,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE MANILA RISING: $95,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureArte Americas The Mexican Arts Center: $71,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $177,000 · Arts & CultureChinese for Affirmative Action: $505,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $185,000 · Civil RightsCentral Valley Partnership: $25,000 · Civil RightsREINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION: $185,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $120,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER: $115,440 · Community ImprovementIVANHOE COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $92,000 · Community ImprovementOPENING DOORS INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS INC: $40,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $37,500 · Community ImprovementYOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK: $496,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICANO & LATINO YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $45,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $60,000 · Youth Development
Other$23,735,208Philanthropy$5,272,800Education$3,324,500Arts & Culture$1,610,000Civil Rights$715,000Community Improvement$629,940Youth Development$601,000

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 budgetCentral Valley Journalism Collaborative: $2,250,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $1,894,800 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation: $541,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $505,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK: $496,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetFresno Arts Council Inc: $470,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFIRST AMENDMENT COALITION: $450,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $411,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS: $400,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFRESNO ART MUSEUM: $362,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetFresnoland Media: $360,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetBLACK YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $360,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER: $305,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM: $300,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $261,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $258,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetStanislaus Community Foundation: $235,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC: $220,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetREINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $163,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $120,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER: $115,440 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $95,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLITTLE MANILA RISING: $95,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNorthern California Grantmakers: $90,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS COLLABORATIVE: $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetArte Americas The Mexican Arts Center: $71,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCity Ministry Network: $70,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSTATE CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICANO & LATINO YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $45,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetEducation and Leadership Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPENING DOORS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $37,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Central Valley Journalism Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds Central Valley Community Foundation A Corporation ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FIRST ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Fresno Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION ↗
  • Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds FRESNO ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Fresnoland Media ↗
  • Who funds BLACK YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR CIVIC PARTICIPATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds Stanislaus Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PARENT INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The California Endowm…The James Irvine Foun…Sierra Health Foundat…Sierra Health Foundat…The California Wellne…Latino Community Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…East Bay Community Fo…California Healthcare…California Physicians…California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…
The California EndowmentCA77× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Sierra Health Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 James B McClatchy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James B McClatchy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    0get no government money at all
    29report 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 113 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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