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Physicians for Social Responsibility

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$628k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$140k
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.

Environment$3.0MHealth$35kEmployment$20kHousing & Shelter$15kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $596,539, the rows itemized in this filing. The $627,989 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,450 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$140,333
CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & ENVIRONMENT$60,000
SCOPE$52,833
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION$47,083
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT$44,833
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE$40,000
EMERALD CITIES COLLABORATIVE INC-1$40,000
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS$35,000
COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT$27,833
PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL$27,833
WATTS CLEAN AIR AND ENERGY COMMITTEEWATTSKANDA$21,875
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY$18,000
TIDES CENTER (PODER)$10,666
THEWORKSLA$10,250
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER (PODER): $216k → 10%TIDES CENTER (PODER): $11k → 10%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $65k → 14%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $61k → 14%SCOPE: $53k → 14%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $34k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 12 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$2.7M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
EnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman 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

  • PA
    Pesticide Action Network North America
    6× · 2017–2022 · $830k · revenue +14%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $280k · revenue +53%
  • CO
    CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SE
    Self-Help Enterprisesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • LC
    LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • LC
    LABOR COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -32%
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 Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
2
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
3
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
4
Environmental Health Coalition

The Environmental Health Coalition is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. We believe that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect…

Environment
5
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
6
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
7
Central California Environmental Justice Network

To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.

Environment
8
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
9
Science & Environmental Health Network

In service to communities, the earth and future generations, the science and environmental health network forges science, ethics, and law into tools for action.

Environment
10
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
Coalition for Responsible and Equitable Economic Development Los Angeles

To ensure that the workers in the construction industry in Los Angeles are highly trained and professional. The organization seeks the creation of good jobs, safety for workers, health care and a secure retirement for working families.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 24 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pesticide Action Network North America: $830,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North AmericaSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $279,708 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $201,833 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENTPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL: $139,083 · EnvironmentPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL+2 more: $54,625 · EnvironmentTIDES CENTER: $226,266 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $212,833 · Human ServicesStrategic Conce…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $169,175 · HealthBLACK WOMEN …SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $130,833 · HealthSIERRA HEALT…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 · HealthCENTRAL CALI…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $138,225 · OtherINSTITUTO DE…EAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $106,625 · OtherEAST YARD CO…WATTS CLEAN AIR AND ENERGY COMMITTEEWATTSKANDA: $21,875 · OtherWATTS CLEAN …LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherLIBERTY HILL…LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $20,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP C…+3 more: $26,989 · Other+3 moreCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $230,000 · Crime & LegalESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $189,083 · Housing & ShelterSelf-Help Enterprises: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $40,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$1,505,249Human Services$439,099Health$350,008Other$338,714Crime & Legal$230,000Housing & Shelter$209,083Public Benefit$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $830,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $279,708 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $230,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $226,266 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $212,833 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $201,833 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $189,083 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $169,175 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL: $139,083 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $138,225 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $130,833 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEAST YARD COMMUNITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $106,625 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUST TRANSITION ALLIANCE: $36,625 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSelf-Help Enterprises: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $6,739 over 1y, 13% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The California Endowm…Natural Resources Def…The Schmidt Family Fo…United States Energy …Liberty Hill Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…The Marisla FoundationMovement Strategy Cen…Resources Legacy FundThe California Wellne…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Endowment · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Resources Legacy Fund · The California Wellness 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 Physicians for Social Responsibility funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Physicians for Social Responsibility. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Physicians for Social Responsibility?

    Find your warmest path to Physicians for Social Responsibility 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 24 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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