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Power California

POWER CALIFORNIA harnesses the energy of young voters of color and their families to create a state that is equitable, inclusive and just for everyone who calls california home.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$334k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.4MCivil Rights$567kHuman Services$195kHousing & Shelter$144kHealth$142kEnvironment$103kYouth Development$71kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $276k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $716k
  • $250k+1 grant · $334k
$37,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWERCA ACTION$334,335
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION$103,000
INNER CITY STRUGGLE$80,000
FUTURE LEADERS OF AMERICA$66,500
COMMUNITY COALITION$58,000
PICO CALIFORNIA$56,000
GENTE ORGANIZADA$52,500
BUEN VECINO$50,000
FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE$50,000
COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT$50,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$50,000
CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY$50,000
SIGMA BETA XI$50,000
EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$46,000
ACCE INSTITUTE$37,500
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 (FY18–24, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Services Immigrant Rights: $53k → 8%FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 10%PANA: $30k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF STOCKTON: $7k → 12%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $10k → 19%Services Immigrant Rights: $42k → 8%Partnership for Advancement: $29k → 11%SIREN: $38k → 8%Filipino Advocates for Justic: $38k → 10%Partnership for Advancement: $17k → 11%Filipino Adv for Justice: $34k → 10%Filipino Advocates for Justic: $27k → 10%Inner City Struggle: $41k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $80k → 14%Inner City Struggle: $39k → 14%Inner City Struggle: $35k → 14%INNER CITY STRUGGLE: $30k → 14%Korean Resource Center: $40k → 14%Korean Resource Center: $27k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 25 repeat orgs$701k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
14

Total granted

$3.9M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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
    POWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue ×12 · 63% of their budget
  • IS
    INNERCITY STRUGGLE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +27%
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $186k · revenue +336%

Funded once

  • MV
    MILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRSTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +386%
  • LC
    LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    one grant, 2022 · $62k · revenue +19%
  • MF
    MI FAMILIA EN ACCIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +107%
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 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
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
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…

Human Services
4
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
5
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
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
8
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

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11
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
12
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability; the most unlike its peers is Buen Vecino. 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

51 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. 51 of the 54 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTION: $1,606,727 · Civil RightsPOWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTIONCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $135,441 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education FundMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $100,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $81,000 · Civil Rights+8 more: $279,451 · Civil Rights+8 moreINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $224,721 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGG…FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $149,103 · Human ServicesFILIPINO ADVOCAT…SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $132,239 · Human ServicesSERVICES IMMIGRA…PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $76,631 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR …Korean Resource Center Inc: $67,189 · Human ServicesKorean Resource …+2 more: $17,000 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $167,464 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE…COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $145,698 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …North Bay Organizing Project: $45,384 · Community ImprovementNorth Bay …MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $26,425 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT S…DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $17,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $16,727 · Community Improvement+1 more: $6,000 · Community ImprovementFuture Leaders of America: $144,969 · Youth DevelopmentKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $51,537 · Youth DevelopmentRYSE INC: $31,428 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Kids First: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $185,792 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $15,000 · HealthACT for Women and Girls: $97,704 · EducationGENTE ORGANIZADA: $52,500 · EducationACCE Institute: $37,500 · EducationCommunities For A New California Education Fund: $8,000 · EducationPICO California: $86,000 · Public BenefitSIGMA BETA XI INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $23,750 · Public BenefitINLAND EMPIRE UNITED EDUCATION FUND: $21,000 · Public BenefitInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $135,522 · OtherInland Congr…COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $103,083 · OtherCOMMUNITIES …Fresno Barrios Unidos: $48,617 · OtherFresno Barri…CENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $18,890 · OtherLEGACY LA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP: $18,408 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $77,400 · OtherCOMMUNITY IN…SOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $48,408 · OtherSOCIAL JUSTI…+6 more: $48,325 · Other+6 more
Civil Rights$2,202,619Human Services$666,883Community Improvement$448,198Youth Development$237,934Health$200,792Education$195,704Public Benefit$180,750Other$498,653

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 budgetPOWERCA ACTION FKA MOBILIZE THE IMMIGRANT VOTE ACTION: $1,606,727 over 6y, 63% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $224,721 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $185,792 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $167,464 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE: $149,103 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: $145,698 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFuture Leaders of America: $144,969 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $135,522 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $135,441 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $132,239 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $103,083 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMILLION VOTERS PROJECT ACTION FUND FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES FIRST: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetACT for Women and Girls: $97,704 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetPICO California: $86,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $81,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $77,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $76,631 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetKorean Resource Center Inc: $67,189 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $62,300 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGENTE ORGANIZADA: $52,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $51,537 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBUEN VECINO: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSIGMA BETA XI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFresno Barrios Unidos: $48,617 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $48,408 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $46,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $45,384 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetACCE Institute: $37,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRYSE INC: $31,428 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $30,651 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $26,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $23,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINLAND EMPIRE UNITED EDUCATION FUND: $21,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER ON RACE POVERTY & THE ENVIRONMENT: $18,890 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEGACY LA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP: $18,408 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAITH IN THE VALLEY: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $16,727 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Kids First: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities For A New California Education Fund: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFaith In Action Bay Area: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…The California Wellne…The James Irvine Foun…East Bay Community Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…The San Francisco Fou…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Calls Educ…Liberty Hill Foundati…Evelyn and Walter Haa…Movement Strategy Cen…Amalgamated Charitabl…
The California EndowmentCA65.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The San Francisco Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Calls Education Fund · Liberty Hill Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Movement Strategy Center · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Power California?

    Find your warmest path to Power 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 54 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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