· Private foundation
The California Endowment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k249 grants · $5.6M
- $50k–250k590 grants · $67M
- $250k+221 grants · $143M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $9,775,125 |
| CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION | $3,479,999 |
| CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION | $2,600,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND | $2,500,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,375,000 |
| PICO CALIFORNIA | $2,200,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $2,083,193 |
| THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP | $2,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $2,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION | $2,000,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $1,876,061 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE | $1,800,000 |
| ACCE INSTITUTE | $1,600,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UNIVE | $1,596,295 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $55.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The California Endowment’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 98% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
1225 repeat relationships — 569 still active in FY2024, 656 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT8× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue ×16 · 28% of their budget- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $35M · revenue +266%
Public Health Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +130%
Funded once
- TRTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2023 · $5.3M
- APALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +11%
- MEMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCYone grant, 2023 · $1.6M · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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,…
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,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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.
The New California Coalition (NCC) is a forward-thinking organization with a bold mission: to identify and implement solutions that will pave the way for enduring, generational change in Sacramento and across the entire state of California.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
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…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadersup and the most unlike its peers is Rosenberg Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1678 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1678 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Action Council of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COALITION FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds HEALTH ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Californians For Justice Education Fund ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fresno Building Healthy Communities ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds California Pan-Ethnic Health Network ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RADIO ↗
- Who funds California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The California Wellness Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Sierra Health Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · California Healthcare Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The California Endowment funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.