Skip to content
Nourish California at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Nourish California

To collaborate with diverse community partners for policy change, ensuring equitable access to food, health, and well-being for all Californians.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Food & Nutrition$194kHealth$109kEducation$16kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vision Y Compromiso$14,500
MixtecoIndigena Cmty Org Pro$13,250
Central Valley Immigr Integr$12,500
The Womens Building$10,000
Community Partners$10,000
National Health Fdtn$8,000
San Diego Hunger Coalition$8,000
Inland Congregations United$8,000
Bay Area Community Resources$8,000
Healthy Kids Happy Faces$8,000
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 (FY22–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Central Valley Immigr Integr: $13k → 19%CV Immigrant Integration: $9k → 19%CV Immigrant Integration: $7k → 19%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$148k · 6 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$148k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • VY
    VISION Y COMPROMISO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +71%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CH
    California Health & Human Services
    one grant, 2020 · $93k
  • CD
    CENTRO DEL PUEBLO
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -1%
  • EA
    Education and Leadership Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +9%
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
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
2
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
3
California Consortium for Urban Indian Health

The mission of ccuih is to facilitate shared development resources for our members and to raise public awareness in order to support a health and wellness network that meets the needs of american indians living in urban communities in…

—
4
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International
5
El Concilio California

Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.

Human Services
6
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
7
Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc

To enhance the health, wellness, and resilience of every community we serve - see schedule o for more details

—
8
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
9
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
10
Immigrant Legal Services of the Central Coast Inc

Immigrant legal services of the central coast (ilscc) provides immigration-related legal services and information to the immigrant community of the central coast region of california, primarily santa cruz, san benito, and monterey…

Crime & Legal
11
Latino Leadership Council Inc

To advance the wellness and leadership capacity of Latino populations.

Health
12
Immigrant Defenders Law Center

Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Vision Y Compromiso. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California Health & Human Services: $93,198 · OtherCalifornia Health & Human ServicesUCSD Center for Health: $15,500 · OtherUCSD Center for HealthGender Justice LA: $15,000 · OtherGender Justice LASAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $10,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERSHealthy Kids Happy Faces: $8,000 · OtherInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $8,000 · OtherCENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $6,500 · OtherLB Immigrant Rights Coalition: $6,500 · OtherPlascencia Consulting Inc: $6,000 · OtherCentral Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative: $28,500 · Human ServicesCentral Valley…MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $13,250 · Human ServicesMIXTECO INDIGE…NATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $29,750 · HealthNATIONAL HEAL…BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $8,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMM…VISION Y COMPROMISO: $30,000 · EducationVISION Y COM…Education and Leadership Foundation: $6,500 · EducationEducation an…SAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $29,500 · Food & NutritionSAN DIEGO …COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$168,698Human Services$41,750Health$37,750Education$36,500Food & Nutrition$29,500Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetVISION Y COMPROMISO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $29,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUNGER COALITION: $29,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCentral Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative: $28,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $13,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO DEL PUEBLO: $6,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEducation and Leadership Foundation: $6,500 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.

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…California Immigrant …Latino Community Foun…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Immigrant Legal Resou…Sierra Health Foundat…Weingart FoundationTides CenterCalifornia Community …Impactassetsinc
The California EndowmentCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · California Immigrant Policy Center · Latino Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Weingart Foundation · Tides Center · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc

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 Nourish California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nourish California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nourish California?

    Find your warmest path to Nourish California through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Nourish California’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home